Towards a better assessment of pain and suffering damages for personal injuries
Subtitle: a proposal based on quality adjusted life years
By: Vaia Karapanou
Series: European studies in law and economics series -- 12; European studies in law and economics -- 12.
Publisher: Intersentia; Intersentia Uitgevers N.V.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Cambridge; Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9781780682303
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Compensation (Law); Personal injuries; Damages; Quality of life
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-243).
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: How should pain and suffering damages be assessed? A legal perspective; title: How should pain and suffering damages be assessed? A law and economics perspective; title: Quality adjusted life years. A measure for the economic evaluation of health care; title: Using QALYs in a tort law context. Assessing pain and suffering damages; title: Pain and suffering damages based on QALYs. Circumventing victims' (and judges') hedonic misperceptions; title: The QALY framework applied. Practical examples and implementation recommendations; title: Epilogue.