Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries

"Acknowledgements" -- "Table of Contents and Authors" -- "Detailed Table of Contents" -- "List of Tables" -- "List of Figures" -- "Part I: Introduction" -- "1. An Introduction to the Schemes" -- "Background to No-Fault Schemes" -- "Summary of the Schemes" -- "A. General Injuries" -- "B. Workers' Compensation" -- "C. Motor Vehicle Injuries" -- "D. Patient Injury Schemes" -- "E. Medicines" -- "F. Industry Arrangements in the UK for Research Injuries" -- "G. Birth Injuries" -- "H. Social Schemes" -- "Part II: New Zealand and Australia" -- "2. New Zealand: The Accident Compensation Scheme" -- "A. General Description" -- "B. Replacement of Tort Liability" -- "C. The Five Accounts and their Funding" -- "D. Eligibility" -- "E. Compensation" -- "F. Procedure" -- "G. Statistics" -- "H. Improving Safety" -- "I. Workplace Safety" -- "J. Conclusions" -- "3. Australia: Workers' Compensation" -- "Workers' Compensation: A Global Approach" -- "A. Western Australia Workers' Compensation" -- "B. Workers' Compensation Arrangements in the Northern Territory" -- "C. Worker's Compensation Arrangements in the Australian Capital Territory" -- "D. South Australia's Workers' Rehabilitation and Compensation Scheme" -- "E. The Tasmanian Workers' Compensation Scheme" -- "F. The Tasmanian Asbestos Compensation Scheme" -- "G. New South Wales" -- "H. New South Wales Work (Dust Diseases) Related Injuries" -- "Part III: Nordic States" -- "4. Nordic Injury Compensation Schemes" -- "B. Integration of Coverage and Entitlements" -- "C. Holistic Systems and Nordic Philosophy" -- "D. Levels of Damages" -- "E. Patient Complaints" -- "5. Sweden" -- "A. General Benefits and Arrangements" -- "B. Swedish Motor Vehicle Insurance" -- "C. Swedish Patient Insurance" -- "D. Swedish Drug Insurance" -- "6. Denmark" -- "A. General Benefits" -- "B. Danish Industrial Injuries.

"C. Danish Patient Insurance" -- "7. Finland" -- "A. General Benefits" -- "B. Finland's Workers' Compensation System" -- "C. Finland's Motor Vehicle Insurance" -- "D. Finnish Patient Insurance" -- "E. Finnish Drug Insurance" -- "8. Norway" -- "A. General Benefits" -- "B. Norway's Patient Compensation System" -- "C. Norwegian Drug Insurance" -- "Part IV: US Schemes" -- "9. No-Fault Schemes in the USA" -- "A. Veterans' Healthcare" -- "B. COPIC" -- "10. Motor Vehicle Coverage in the USA" -- "A. Background to No-Fault" -- "B. The Columbia Plan" -- "C. The Keeton-O'Connell Plan" -- "D. Costs of No-Fault" -- "E. Florida" -- "F. North Dakota" -- "G. Colorado" -- "H. Conclusions" -- "11. The Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program" -- "A. Organisation and Structure" -- "B. Program Funding" -- "C. Eligible Injuries" -- "D. Limitations" -- "E. The Claims Process" -- "F. Awards" -- "G. Appeals" -- "H. Parallel Regulatory Investigations into Care" -- "I. Claim Statistics" -- "J. Actuarial Soundness of the Fund" -- "K. Theft from the Fund" -- "L. Conclusions" -- "12. The Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association" -- "A. Organisation and Structure" -- "B. NICA Funding" -- "C. Eligible Injuries" -- "D. Limitations" -- "E. The Claims Process" -- "F. Awards" -- "G. Appeals" -- "H. Parallel Regulatory Investigations into Care" -- "I. Claims Statistics" -- "J. Costs" -- "K. Actuarial Soundness of the Fund and Provisions Related to This" -- "L. Breakdown of the Claims Expenses by Category" -- "M. Class Actions" -- "N. Conclusions" -- "13. September 11 Victim Compensation Fund" -- "A. The First Victim Compensation Fund (VCF1)" -- "B. The Second Incarnation of the Victim Compensation Fund (VCF)" -- "C. Conclusions" -- "Part V: Vaccines and Pharmaceuticals" -- "14. The Thalidomide Trust" -- "A. History" -- "B. Conclusions.

"15. Vaccine Injury Compensation Schemes" -- "A. The US National Swine Flu Immunization Program of 1976" -- "B. The US Vaccine Injury Compensation Scheme" -- "C. The UK Vaccine Damage Scheme" -- "D. Ebola" -- "16. The Japanese Pharmaceutical Injury Scheme" -- "A. General Description" -- "B. Funding" -- "C. SMON Claims" -- "D. Payments for HIV and AIDS" -- "E. Hepatitis C Payments" -- "F. Adverse Drug Reactions" -- "G. The Claims Process" -- "H. Criteria" -- "I. Conclusions" -- "17. Injuries in Clinical Trials on Medicines and Clinical Evaluation of Medical Devices" -- "A. Medicinal Products" -- "B. Medical Devices" -- "Part VI: Patient Injuries" -- "18. France: The ONIAM Scheme" -- "A. Overview" -- "B. Background" -- "C. Organisational Structure" -- "D. Compensation Scheme: General Overview" -- "E. Compensation Scheme: Specific Procedures" -- "F. Statistics on the CCIs" -- "G. Performance Statistics: Medical Accidents" -- "H. Conclusion" -- "19. Polish No-Fault Medical Compensation Scheme" -- "A. Overview" -- "B. Context and History" -- "C. Medical Incident" -- "D. No-Fault Liability?" -- "E. Causation" -- "F. Membership and Term of Office" -- "G. Time Limitations, Costs and Fees" -- "H. Procedure" -- "I. Decisions, Appeals and Compensation" -- "J. Insurance—The Original Core Element and One of the Main Problems of the Scheme" -- "K. No Participation of Doctors in the Procedure" -- "L. Statistics" -- "M. The Role of the Patients' Rights Ombudsman" -- "N. Evaluation" -- "20. Ireland: The Injuries Board" -- "21. Ireland: Health Services and Redress for Women Formerly Resident in Magdalen Laundries" -- "A. The Magdalen Laundries: Revealing the Story" -- "B. The McAleese Committee Report on the Magdalen Laundries" -- "C. The Magdalen Commission's Design of an Ex Gratia Scheme" -- "D. Implementation of the Magdalen Laundries Scheme.

"E. From Adversarial Redress Scheme to Transitional Justice" -- "22. Germany" -- "A. The Pharmapool" -- "B. Claims against Doctors" -- "C. Claims against Insurers: Ombudsman for Private Health Insurers (PKV-Verband)" -- "D. Recent Developments Targeting Reduction of Medical Liability Cases and Further Outlook" -- "E. Conclusions" -- "Part VII: UK Schemes" -- "23. The Armed Forces Compensation Scheme" -- "A. Introduction" -- "B. Eligibility" -- "C. Application Process" -- "D. Awards" -- "E. Reviews, Reconsiderations and Appeals" -- "F. Statistics" -- "G. Conclusions" -- "24. Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme" -- "A. Background" -- "B. Compensation Available" -- "C. Eligibility" -- "D. Application Process, Application Numbers and Refusal Numbers" -- "E. Claims Settled" -- "F. Reopening Cases, Reviewing Decisions and Appeals" -- "G. Conclusions" -- "25. Industrial Injuries Disablement Benefit" -- "A. Conclusions" -- "26. UK Mesothelioma Compulsory Insurance Fund and Compensation Scheme" -- "A. Mesothelioma" -- "B. Industrial Injury Disablement Benefit" -- "C. Pneumoconiosis Act 1979 Lump Sum Claim" -- "D. Employers' Liability Claims and Schemes" -- "E. The 2008 Scheme" -- "F. DMPS" -- "G. Statistics" -- "H. Compensation Recovery" -- "I. Conclusions" -- "27. Miners' Compensation Schemes" -- "A. The Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis Scheme 1974" -- "B. The Coal Health Compensation Schemes" -- "C. Vibration White Finger" -- "D. Subsequent Claims against Solicitors" -- "28. Compensation Scheme for Hepatitis C and HIV" -- "A. Background" -- "B. Overview of the Current Arrangements" -- "C. Hepatitis C" -- "D. HIV" -- "E. Proposed Reforms" -- "F. Conclusions" -- "29. Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease" -- "A. Background" -- "B. The vCJD Trust: A No-Fault Compensation Scheme" -- "Part VIII: Corporate Schemes for Medical Devices.

"30. Dow Corning Breast Implant Compensation" -- "A. History" -- "B. Claiming from the Dow Corning Settlement Trust" -- "C. Claims Data from the Dow Corning Settlement Fund" -- "D. Conclusions" -- "31. Trilucent Breast Implants" -- "A. Background" -- "B. Care Package and Compensation Scheme" -- "C. Conclusions" -- "32. ASR Hip Reimbursement Programme" -- "A. Background" -- "B. Reimbursment Programme" -- "C. Conclusions" -- "Part IX: Conclusions" -- "33. Conclusions" -- "A. Origins and Motivations of the Schemes" -- "B. Structures of the Schemes" -- "C. Comparative Statistics" -- "D. Analysis of Major Common Features and Findings" -- "34. Parameters and Outline of a Modern Compensation Scheme" -- "A. The Parameters for a Principled Scheme" -- "B. Outline of a Model for Personal Injury Compensation Schemes.

Medienart:	E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:	2017
Erschienen:	London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC ; 2017

Reihe:	Civil Justice Systems Ser

Sprache:	Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:	Macleod, Sonia [VerfasserIn] Hodges, Christopher [Sonstige Person]

Links:	Volltext

ISBN:	978-1-5099-1662-7

Themen:	Personal injuries

Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource (731 pages)

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