New evidence, however, contradicts the conventional wisdom that malpractice litigation compromises the patient safety movement's call for transparency.
"The conventional wisdom has been that litigation before an election is good because it helps clarify the rules, and litigation after an election is bad because it causes rancor and leaves the results uncertain," said Doug Chapin, the director of Electionline.org, a Web site run by the Pew Center on the States, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group.
Proposed reforms and initiatives should not rely on conventional wisdom about the negative effects of malpractice litigation.
The bill attempts to remove barriers to innovation in cancer treatment by lifting the threat of litigation against doctors who deviate from conventional clinical practice.
The individual 'claims process' itself required resources that poor women lack; as such, SAHAYOG and allies decided to move away from conventional human rights work that often engages in litigation for individual cases, and attempted to foster a 'collective claims process'.
While most of the brick structure has gone up, the project is mired in litigation between Belcor, which has constructed more conventional garages, and its subcontractor, Robotic Parking Inc. of Pinellas Park, Fla., which was to develop the automation system.
Conventional wisdom holds that the industry can handle what litigation costs come its way by raising prices.
For many small-business owners, it has become conventional wisdom that the best way to deal with employee litigation is to settle quickly and move on, regardless of whether the owner or the company has done anything wrong.
Conventional wisdom held that law firms could weather economic downturns by relying on business lines like bankruptcy and civil litigation that tend to increase in bad times.
