It opens up a company to severe liability in this country, since courts will demand that, in the event of litigation, data be turned over to the courts.
Zongzhi (2001) also pointed out through his study on the Qing Dynasty litigation data that folk custom and practice differ from official legal institutions.
After comprehensive analysis of litigation data, we concluded that the majority of claims were generally resolved appropriately through medical malpractice litigation.
However, we subdivided the 'postanalytical test stage' of the system to create a new end-stage process of 'communication outcome issues', which litigation data and recent research have highlighted as an important safety-critical system element where failures may occur for patients and practices.
True, malpractice litigation data also have many flaws: too few malpractice claims are filed to reflect an accurate picture of a hospital's shortcomings, and the amount awarded in litigation may not reflect the merits of the claims.
Finally, Lex Machina's litigation data can be useful in patent portfolio evaluation.
The number of handset patent infringement filings to the US courts grew from 24 cases in 2006, to 84 cases in 2010, according to Lex Machina, an intellectual property litigation data provider.
Lex Machina, whose clients include eBay, Microsoft, and Shire Pharmaceuticals, plans to use the funds to add new product features and to expand its sales team to serve corporate law firm demand for its IP litigation data and analytics.
Enter Lex Machina, a Palo Alto based company providing IP litigation data and analytics to help companies "anticipate, manage, and win patent and other IP law suits," which just closed another $2 million in a funding round led by X/Seed Capital.
We analyzed medical malpractice litigation data from 1998 to 2011 for characteristics of claims via a litigation database within a nationwide database of cases (1086 cases) in China, including claims, liabilities, injures, and compensation payments.
