The historic 1979 California Supreme Court decision in Royal Globe Insurance Company v. Superior Court unexpectedly extended to injured-third-parties the right to sue the injurer's insurer for bad faith in claim settlement, expanding the set of eligible plaintiffs to those with the greatest...

The contrast between the predictability of presidential elections and the variability of early polls has come to be viewed as evidence of campaign learning. We argue that unmotivated survey respondents offering minimally acceptable answers (i.e., satisficing) offers an additional explanation for...