The Federal Civil Justice System Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, July, 1987
Journal of Commerce, June 10, 1986
Time, March 24, 1986
Issue Alert, "Small Business and the Liability Insurance Crisis", United States Small Business Administration, March, 1986
American Bar Association Information Services
Washington Post, March 5, 1986
Report of the Tort Policy Working Group on the Causes, Extend and Policy Implications of the Current Crisis in Insurance Availability and Affordability, February, 1986; An Update on the Liability Crisis, Tort Policy Working Group, March, 1987
M. Peterson, Civil Juries in the 1980s: Trends in Jury Trials and Verdicts in California and Cook County, Illinois, The Institute for Civil Justice, 1987.
M. Peterson, S. Sarma, M. Shanley, Punitive Damages – Empirical Findings, The Institute for Civil Justice, 1987
Claim File Data Analysis: Technical Analysis of Study Results, ISO Data, December, 1988
J. Kakalik, N. Pace, Costs and Compensation Paid in Tort Litigation, The Institute for Civil Justice, 1986
Tort Policy Working Group, see footnote 6
Civil Juries in the 1980s, see footnote 7
Injury Valuation: Current Award Trends, Jury Verdict Research, Inc., 1986, 1987
Civil Juries in the 1980s, see footnote 7
The Impact of Product Liability, The Conference Board, Inc., 1988
For a history of product liability law, see the Mackinac Center Report by Bradley A. Smith, TortLaw and the Products Liability Insurance Crisis, 1988. For a thorough exploration of the theory of litigation and its impact on society, see Peter W. Huber, Liability – The Legal Revolution and Its Consequences, Basic Books, Inc., 1988. This extraordinary study, written by one of the nation's leading scholars and proponents of litigation reform, offers the most complete analysis to date of the relationship between individual/societal behavior and the litigation system. My study is particularly indebted to the analysis of the consequences of high product liability exposure detailed in Chapter 10, "What is Deterred" (pages 153-171).
Engineer Perspective 1986, Research and Management Foundation of the American Consulting Engineers Council, December, 1986
Insight, "Liability's Creative Clamp Holds Firms to the Status Quo", August 29, 1988
Insight, Id.
R. Lincoln, L. Kaeser, Family Planning Persp., "Whatever Happened to the Contraceptive Revolution", 1988
Huber, see footnote 16
G. Burrill, Biotechnology, "The Keys to Commercialization in Biotechnology", 1987
Insight, see footnote 18
Wall Street Journal, February 4, 1986
Huber, see footnote 16 Wall Street Journal, January 21, 1986
Impact of Product Liability on the Development of New Medical Technologies, Report of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Association, 1988
Impact of Product Liability, id.
Huber, see footnote 16
Huber, direct quote from page 160, see footnote 16
The Liability Crisis and its Impact on the American Consumer
American Tort Reform Association, 1987
Tort Policy Working Group, Update, see footnote 6
The Liability Crisis, see footnote 30
Sports Liability News, Aug.-Oct. 1988
Huber, see footnote 16
The Liability Crisis, see footnote 30
See for example the annual study and rankings by Grant Thorton International
Michigan Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1977, MCL 37.2101 et seq.
Michigan Handicappers' Civil Rights Act, MCL 37.1101 et seq.
Payment of Wages and Fringe Benefits, MCL 408.472 et seq.
Bullard-Plawecki Employee Right to Know Act, MCL 423.501 et seq.
Polygraph Protection Act of 1981, MCL 37.202 et seq.
The Whistleblowers' Protection Act, MCL 15.361 et seq.
Worker's Disability Compensation Act of 1969, MCL 418.101 et seq.
Michigan Employment Security Act, MCL 421.1 et seq.
405 Mich. 638, 275 N.W.2d 511 (1979)
408 Mich. 579, 292 N.W.2d 880 (1980)
Individual Employment Rights,
The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
Labor Relations Reporter, January 31, 1989
254 Cal.Rptr. 211 (Cal. 1988)
427 Mich. 415, 398 N.W.2d 327 (1986)
MCL 418.131
The cause of action was established in Schipani v. Ford Motor Co., 102 Mich.App. 606, 302 N.W.2d 307 (1981) and Chamberlain v. Bissell, Inc., 547 F.Supp. 1067 (WD Mich 1982). But more recent cases have strictly limited this potential cause of action. See Loftis v. GT Products, 167 Mich.App.787, 423 N.W.2d 358 (1988); Struble v. Lacks Industries, Inc., 157 Mich.App.169, 403 N.W.2d 71 (1986); Haas v. Montgomery Ward & Co., 812 F.2d 1015 (CA 6, 1987)
131 Mich.App. 185, 347 N.W.2d 184 (1983)
MCL 600.5040 et.seq.
Journal of Legal Medicine, "Medical Malpractice Crisis the Second Time Around – Why Not Arbitrate", Vol. 8, No. 2 (1987)
MCL 418.864
Michigan Rules of Court, 2.403
MCL 418.131
254 Cal.Rptr. 211 (Cal. 1988)
American Bar Association Journal, "The 10 Largest Jury Awards in 1988", March, 1989
Becco v. A.J. Foland Co., Court of Appeals Case Nos. 102415-18 and 10230-33