But some business leaders have questioned the value of the litigation financing industry, said Lisa A. Rickard, president of the Institute for Legal Reform at the United States Chamber of Commerce.
But Mr. Scoppetta and Ms. Lowry, director of Children's Rights, a national advocacy organization, took diametrically opposed lessons from the settlement regarding the value of new litigation in the next stages of the overhaul.
The government brushed Mr Davis aside by pointing out that neither the value of claims nor the volume of litigation have increased much recently: last year, accident claims actually fell by 9.5%.
Does evaluative mediation value "compromise?" Does litigation value "compromise?" If not, how would an alternative form of litigation value "compromise?" Does evaluative mediation value the concept of accepting personal responsibility?
"The settlement is even more gratifying because it underscores the value of private civil litigation to protect shareholder rights," Christopher McDonald, one of the lead lawyers representing investors, said in a statement.
How do you penetrate the impenetrable?" Even after the investigation had started, it might have hit the buffers, had the reporters not found and recognised the critical value of a little-known litigation lawyer in Boston who, they discovered, had already been pushing at the Church's defences for years on behalf of a growing list of clients who said they had been victims of abuse.
According to a 1910 Q&A in the New York Times, the lawyers fees were "long since supposed to have eclipsed the value of the land in litigation".
At the low end, the cost of litigation exceeds the value of the license and this puts strong pressure on small vendors to take a license rather than litigate.
The UnitedHealth case is also an example of the value of an effective special-litigation committee.
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.
