As Matt Cain and I documented in our study "A Great Game: The Dynamics of State Competition for Merger Litigation," the incidence of takeover litigation has risen substantially over the last five years.
We intended to find out the incidence of litigations arising from ER patients and that of birth inpatients in Taiwan, and computed their relative risks.
Specifically, these diseconomies include (1) an increased incidence of civil litigation; (2) increased insurance premiums for medical responsibility; (3) a consequent refusal by insurance companies to assume the warranty of the clinical risks; (4) longer waiting lists; (5) more general and unsustainable waste in healthcare expenditures.
That mattered, the lawyer said, because "the litigation involves AIDS medications" and "the incidence of AIDS in the homosexual community is well known, particularly gay men".
13 We ran scenarios assuming no herd effects, higher and lower vaccine strain coverage, lower disease incidence, with and without litigation costs and family and network losses of quality of life, and excluding the quality of life adjustment factor.
Along with an increase in the number of medical malpractice litigations in recent years, factors potentially responsible for the incidence of medical disputes have been explored.
Audit Integrity claims that it has established a direct correlation between its Accounting and Governance Risk assessments and the incidence of adverse events such as class action litigation, financial restatements, internal control deficiencies, Securities and Exchange enforcement actions and stock price performance.
Under "vaccine conservative" assumptions (lower disease incidence, 66% strain coverage, no herd effects or litigation costs) the percentage of cases averted is 40% lower than the base case, and none of the strategies is cost effective at any vaccine price.
Incidences of indoor S. chartarum contamination often generate costly litigation and remediation, are extensively reported by the media, and have evoked intense public and scientific controversy (Hardin et al. 2003).
The relative risks of developing litigation later on in each category of patients were computed by comparing the respective incidences.
