Forecasting Product Liability Claims
Subtitle: Epidemiology and Modeling in the Manville Asbestos Case (Statistics for Biology and Health)
Contributors: J.B. Weinstein (Foreword)
Publisher: Springer; Springer Science+Business Media
Published: October 25, 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780387949871
First sentence: This chapter provides background to the Manville asbestos case, an overview of our modeling task, the results, the range of uncertainty, the setting of payout percentages, the need to monitor the future claim process, and the implications of our results for asbestos product liability litigation.