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Securities fraud class actions on upswing again By Walter Olson, 07-29-2008

Interesting analysis in Exxon v. Baker: Pt. II By James R. Copland, 06-25-2008

Interesting analysis in Exxon v. Baker: Pt. I By James R. Copland, 06-25-2008

Ribstein and Perino debate Milberg Weiss By Ted Frank, 06-11-2008

"How Tort Reform Affects Insurance Markets" By Walter Olson, 05-28-2008

A response to Marc Rodwin; the Massachusetts medical malpractice crisis By Ted Frank, 05-22-2008

Massachusetts med mal: Prof. Marc Rodwin responds By Walter Olson, 05-20-2008

Marc A. Rodwin et al., Malpractice Premiums In Massachusetts By Ted Frank, 05-17-2008

National Law Journal on Michael LeRoy employment arbitration study By Ted Frank, 04-23-2008

LeRoy: "Do Courts Create Moral Hazard? When Judges Nullify Employer Liability in Arbitrations: An Empirical Analysis" By Ted Frank, 04-14-2008

Yes, Virginia, doctors respond to incentives By Ted Frank, 03-31-2008

The health costs of defensive medicine By Ted Frank, 03-04-2008

New Hyman/Black/Silver/Sage paper on med mal caps By Ted Frank, 02-01-2008

Obama and Behavioral Economics By Ted Frank, 01-10-2008

Long jury trials By Ted Frank, 10-26-2007

Public Citizen, "The Arbitration Trap" By Walter Olson, 10-18-2007

"Gap Seen Between Court-Appointed Lawyers and Public Defenders" By Ted Frank, 07-13-2007

Overestimates and underestimates of hedonic damages By David Rossmiller, 06-26-2007

"Sarbanes-Oxley and Corporate Risk-Taking" By Ted Frank, 06-15-2007

"Relapses Seen As Patients Abandon Treatment in Response to Negative Law Firm Ads" By Ted Frank, 06-14-2007

McQuillan responds to Point of Law By Ted Frank, 06-11-2007

Defense Costs in Medical Malpractice and Other Personal Injury Cases By Ted Frank, 06-07-2007

PRI responds to Posner By Ted Frank, 05-02-2007

Charles Silver on haircuts By Ted Frank, 04-03-2007

Posner & Becker on the PRI study By Ted Frank, 04-02-2007

Pacific Research Institute: Cost of American jackpot justice: $865 billion By Ted Frank, 03-27-2007

"Disparities Between Asbestosis and Silicosis Claims Generated By Litigation Screenings and Clinical Studies" By Ted Frank, 03-16-2007

Venue selection and bankruptcy outcomes By Walter Olson, 02-18-2007

What docs pay, and where By Walter Olson, 02-01-2007

Sen. Schumer and Mayor Bloomberg call for reform By Ted Frank, 01-26-2007

New York's workers'-comp mess By Walter Olson, 01-26-2007

Around the web, January 25 By Ted Frank, 01-25-2007

Does Sorry Work? By Ted Frank, 01-16-2007

Public Citizen on medical malpractice By Ted Frank, 01-13-2007

Securities class actions down in 2006 By Ted Frank, 01-05-2007

Foreign firms at a disadvantage in U.S. courts? By Walter Olson, 12-20-2006

Latest Tillinghast Towers-Perrin study By Ted Frank, 12-17-2006

"Do Defendants Pay What Juries Award? Post-Verdict Haircuts in Texas Medical Malpractice Cases, 1988-2003" By Ted Frank, 12-11-2006

Mine safety By Ted Frank, 12-07-2006

The declining benefits of listing in the US By Larry Ribstein, 11-28-2006

Ohio medical malpractice claim report By Ted Frank, 11-27-2006

Post-reform doctor supply in Texas III By Ted Frank, 11-13-2006

Post-reform doctor supply in Texas By Ted Frank, 11-06-2006

Did the PSLRA help shareholders? By Ted Frank, 10-25-2006

State Data Privacy Legislation By Jonathan B. Wilson, 10-18-2006

"The Growth of Erroneous Removal"? By Ted Frank, 10-11-2006

"The Impact of Caps on Damages. How are Markets for Medical Liability Insurance and Medical Services Affected?" By Ted Frank, 10-04-2006

Two views of the "CSI Effect" By Ted Frank, 08-03-2006

Effects of med-mal reforms By Walter Olson, 08-02-2006

Liability reform and the medically uninsured By Walter Olson, 07-30-2006

Pacific Research Institute, "U.S. Tort Liability Index" By Walter Olson, 07-28-2006

Med-mal: Harvard Public Health study, cont'd By Walter Olson, 07-27-2006

The Impact of State Laws Limiting Malpractice Damage Awards on Health Care Expenditures By Ted Frank, 07-18-2006

Slate's Med-Mal Hack Job By James R. Copland, 07-12-2006

Investment banking, securities analysis, and regulatory overreaction By Larry Ribstein, 06-23-2006

NAM legal database By Walter Olson, 06-23-2006

More on med-mal-study letters By Walter Olson, 06-20-2006

60 percent equals "almost every" By Walter Olson, 06-16-2006

Dataset on tort reforms By Walter Olson, 06-12-2006

Tabarrok in WSJ on malpractice insurance By Walter Olson, 05-22-2006

New MI Study on Medical Malpractice By James R. Copland, 05-18-2006

Blawg Review #56: Sex, Virtual Weddings, and Baseball By James R. Copland, 05-08-2006

More on medical-malpractice insurance By Ted Frank, 05-05-2006

Short-term Vioxx use study in Canadian Medical Association Journal By Ted Frank, 05-03-2006

Are tort filings down? By Ted Frank, 04-30-2006

Do medical malpractice caps affect care? By Ted Frank, 04-11-2006

AEI event: Medical Malpractice and Physician Supply By Ted Frank, 04-01-2006

$886 a person ($997 in W.V.) By Walter Olson, 03-30-2006

Viscusi vs. Eisenberg on punitives By Walter Olson, 03-16-2006

No surprise: NBER paper shows medmal reform works By Ted Frank, 03-13-2006

Latest Tillinghast Report Stirs Debate By Michael Krauss, 03-13-2006

Center for Science in the Public Interest caught red-handed By Ted Frank, 03-09-2006

AIR Study on Medical Malpractice By Martin F Grace, 03-07-2006

Another way lawyers make people unhappy By Ted Frank, 03-02-2006

Risks drop here. So why does liability increase here? By Michael Krauss, 02-24-2006

VIGOR authors respond to NEJM By Ted Frank, 02-22-2006

"Merit-Based Judging" By Ted Frank, 01-06-2006

Expert medical witnesses By Walter Olson, 12-18-2005

Mountains out of molehills: New England Journal of Medicine and VIGOR By Ted Frank, 12-08-2005

Blog discussion of Chamber securities study By Walter Olson, 12-07-2005

"Impact of Litigation on Small Business" By Walter Olson, 11-22-2005

Bulow: tobacco deal redistributes money between states By Walter Olson, 11-18-2005

Angoff's activities again By Walter Olson, 11-14-2005

More Refutation of Angoff's Report By Martin F Grace, 10-31-2005

Refuting Angoff on medical liability By Walter Olson, 10-31-2005

Sociopathically litigious, cont'd By Walter Olson, 10-27-2005

Paul Rubin on NAM Podcast By Ted Frank, 10-22-2005

"Actuaries Say Med-Mal Report Misled the Public" By Walter Olson, 10-19-2005

Med-mal paid claims, by state By Walter Olson, 10-18-2005

AJP's "Legal Reform Speaker's Resource" By Walter Olson, 10-17-2005

AEI event: Can Tort Reform Save Lives? By Ted Frank, 10-11-2005

Juries and DNA evidence By Walter Olson, 09-02-2005

Fewer cheers for contingency fees By Walter Olson, 08-25-2005

Two Cheers For Contingent Fees By Ted Frank, 08-24-2005

Lying with Statistics - Ernst v. Merck edition, Part II By Ted Frank, 08-23-2005

Decline in Number of Federal Trials Not Significant By Jonathan B. Wilson, 08-19-2005

Quantifying defensive medicine By Walter Olson, 08-18-2005

A New Look at Tort Reform --It May Save Lives By Martin F Grace, 08-15-2005

More Simplistic Tort Reform Research By Martin F Grace, 08-04-2005

Lying with Statistics - Ernst v. Merck edition By Ted Frank, 07-29-2005

Pennsylvania departing-docs study By Walter Olson, 07-25-2005

NERA study on securities class actions By Ted Frank, 07-21-2005

CJD's Med Math Part II By Martin F Grace, 07-13-2005

"Tort-uring the Data" By Walter Olson, 06-30-2005

Med Mal Costs 2004 By Martin F Grace, 06-29-2005

Public Trust in the Civil Justice System By Jonathan B. Wilson, 06-28-2005

Anesthesiologists and Malpractice By Ted Frank, 06-23-2005

Tillinghast attacked, defends itself By Walter Olson, 05-26-2005

How to lie with med-mal statistics: the Public Citizen version By James R. Copland, 05-06-2005

Professor Saks responds, as do I By Ted Frank, 05-02-2005

Study on Connecticut federal juries II By Ted Frank, 04-15-2005

Study on Connecticut federal juries By Ted Frank, 04-15-2005

"Learning from Asbestos Lawsuits" By Walter Olson, 04-09-2005

How to lie with statistics, medical malpractice edition By Ted Frank, 04-03-2005

ILR/Harris Survey results are in By James R. Copland, 03-08-2005

In Defense of the Economic Analysis of Regulation By Michael DeBow, 02-19-2005

Medical costs and bankruptcy II By Ted Frank, 02-16-2005

Medical costs and bankruptcy By Walter Olson, 02-14-2005

New class action study By James R. Copland, 02-10-2005

Tabarrok, Surowiecki on Vioxx By James R. Copland, 01-27-2005

Yes, MICRA worked By Walter Olson, 01-26-2005

$1,000 per American citizen By Walter Olson, 01-25-2005

More Media Matters By James R. Copland, 01-19-2005

Bob Herbert at it again By James R. Copland, 01-14-2005

New Tillinghast study By James R. Copland, 01-10-2005

Fallacies of probability: "Panel Seeks Better Disciplining of Doctors" By Ted Frank, 01-06-2005

Wyoming med-mal study By Walter Olson, 10-28-2004

The burden on small businesses By Walter Olson, 10-21-2004

Outcomes affect expert testimony By Ted Frank, 10-18-2004

Junk science in asbestos litigation By James R. Copland, 08-17-2004

Shareholder-suit trends By Walter Olson, 08-09-2004

Defense costs, around the country By Walter Olson, 08-05-2004

Medical malpractice: costly problems, real solutions By James R. Copland, 07-28-2004

CBO overview of research on effectiveness of tort reform By Walter Olson, 07-27-2004

Rand: MICRA cut Calif. med-mal outlays By Walter Olson, 07-13-2004

It's on... no, it's off By James R. Copland, 06-02-2004

Does tort reform affect insurance rates? II By Ted Frank, 05-19-2004

Does tort reform affect insurance rates? By Ted Frank, 05-19-2004

Update: Eisenberg/Miller study By Ted Frank, 05-18-2004

Economic Report of the President By Walter Olson, 05-18-2004

Newsweek vs. ATLA: Stuart Taylor, Jr. responds (II) By Walter Olson, 05-17-2004

Newsweek vs. ATLA: Stuart Taylor, Jr. responds (I) By Walter Olson, 05-17-2004

2003's largest verdicts By Ted Frank, 05-17-2004

Cost of U.S. liability sector in 2002: $233 billion By Walter Olson, 05-16-2004



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