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Damages
About: Damages is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 9365 publications have been published within this topic receiving 89750 citations. The topic is also known as: compensation award.
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TL;DR: The New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in the Procanik case to limit damages to extraordinary medical expenses, barring recovery for pain and suffering, is a reasonable resolution.
Abstract: Suits that claim that a child would be better off never having been born often founder on conceptual and logical dilemmas. However, the correct interpretation of "wrongful life" does not require a comparison between existence and nonexistence. The New Jersey Supreme Court's decision in the Procanik case to limit damages to extraordinary medical expenses, barring recovery for pain and suffering, is a reasonable resolution.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of a survey of local interest groups using the method of paired comparisons and rank correlation analysis, to reveal local judgments about the severity of damages to coastal habitats and the level of impacts of activities that cause the damages.
Abstract: San Felipe marine reserve, in Yucatan, Mexico, is unique, and particularly suited for a case study because the local community created it without a mandate from higher levels of government. This article presents the results of a survey of local interest groups using the method of paired comparisons and rank correlation analysis, to reveal local judgments about the severity of damages to coastal habitats and the level of impacts of activities that cause the damages. The results show that fishers differ significantly from other interest groups in their rankings of the severity of damages to habitats and of impacting activities. These findings suggest that despite the overlapping interests in protecting the resources and the critical habitats, the different perspectives of local interest groups about the severity of damages must be considered in the management of San Felipe marine reserve.
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12 Dec 2011
TL;DR: In this article, the unprecedented damages of NTT's telecommunications buildings caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the restoration measures are introduced, as well as the current disaster countermeasures against power system issues by blackouts, earthquakes, water damages such as tsunami and tidal wave.
Abstract: This digest introduces the unprecedented damages of NTT's telecommunications buildings caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and the restoration measures. We also explain NTT's current disaster countermeasures against power system issues by blackouts, earthquakes, water damages such as tsunami and tidal wave, and issues to be solved in the future.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors model the settlement and litigation process, allowing for incomplete information about the level of damages on the part of both the defendant and the court, and use the model to examine the effect of making (currently inadmissible) settlement demands admissible as evidence in court should a case proceed to trial.
Abstract: We model the settlement and litigation process, allowing for incomplete information about the level of damages on the part of both the defendant and the court, and use the model to examine the effect of making (currently inadmissible) settlement demands admissible as evidence in court should a case proceed to trial. Two conclusion emerge. First, admissibility rules have efficiency consequences: making a pretrial demand admissible would increase the expected number of cases that go to trial. Second, such rules have distributional consequences and need not benefit all parties to a controversy.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of nonconvexities in externality control from a policy perspective, and show that nonconsvexity can arise from a number of sources and can significantly alter the optimal solution to an external problem.
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