We reported the expense in litigation, amount of compensation paid, and days of litigation by using mean value and confidence interval as well as the median and interquartile range.
Fifty percent of the patients with chronic WAD were involved in litigation for compensation for their injuries at the time of the study.
But it is taxpayers, not police or prosecutors, who bear the costs of litigation and compensation.
Semi-structured interviews will explore participants experience of their injury and their post injury care including factors that facilitate or hinder recovery such as access to healthcare and social support and issues surrounding the effects of litigation and compensation.
"But uniformly it was understood and appreciated that the fund was not going to provide the same level of compensation as litigation".
When the Tory's Michael Howard announced that his party would repeal the act to "save the nation from an avalanche of political correctness, costly litigation, feeble justice and culture of compensation", he was speaking Daily Mailese and appears to have furnished Straw with his text.
The exclusion of compensation and litigation costs had a larger effect, with overall cost savings being reduced to €19,760.
Patient characteristics included: sex, age, duration and cause of symptoms, and medicolegal status (litigation and/or compensation engagement).
The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has warned its 20,000 members that unless changes are made to the processes currently used to gain consent ahead of surgery, they could face a dramatic increase in the number of expensive litigation cases and compensation payouts.
Components of Compensation.
