Project R-7442

Travel grant for foreign participation in Congress 'Workshop on the Law and Economics of Health Care' in Prague (Research)

Over the last decades, medical malpractice issues of all kind have been the centrepiece of an entire strand of law and economics literature. Early research often emerged from the medical liability insurance crises in the 1970s and 1980s in the US. Scholars intensively examined the shortcomings of fault-based compensation systems for health care-related injuries, which posed problems for both physicians and patients. In order to overcome these shortcomings, the United States introduced statutory tort reforms on a state level, e.g. putting caps on attorneys' fees and limiting collateral source rules. The Nordic countries, New Zealand, France and Belgium adopted different types of no-fault compensation systems for medical incidents. Unlike the US tort reforms, the societal effects of these no-fault initiatives are hardly studied before.

27 May 2016 - 27 May 2016