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The Insurance Aspects of \u3ci\u3eDamages\u3c/i\u3e
[I]t is difficult ... to imagine an event or transaction that does not involve insurance in some way. So it is with the most salient event in the lives of Tony and Donna Sabia, whose son Tony John Sabia, or Little Tony, was born with profound disabilities. In the final analysis, the ability of Tony and Donna to pay for the future medical care and living expenses needed by their son depends on whether they can reach the liability insurance coverage possessed by the health care providers who attended Donna and Little Tony at the time of his birth. It is also fair to assert that but for the lack of insurance, specifically, the Sabias\u27 lack of health insurance, the events described in Barry Werth\u27s Damages might never have happened. But once the Sabias\u27 litigation odyssey is underway, insurance plays a prominent role at every major juncture. As aptly stated by Professor Mark Rahdert, insurance usually determines whether tort cases are brought, whom plaintiffs sue, how much they claim, who provides the defense, how the case gets litigated, the dynamics of settlement, and how much plaintiffs ultimately recover. These truisms are powerfully presented in Damages. In this essay, we review how insurance shaped and affected the stories of Tony, Donna, and Little Tony Sabia
Insurance Aspects of Damages, The
[I]t is difficult ... to imagine an event or transaction that does not involve insurance in some way. \u27 So it is with the most salient event in the lives of Tony and Donna Sabia, whose son Tony John Sabia, or Little Tony, was born with profound disabilities. In the final analysis, the ability of Tony and Donna to pay for the future medical care and living expenses needed by their son depends on whether they can reach the liability insurance coverage possessed by the health care providers who attended Donna and Little Tony at the time of his birth. It is also fair to assert that but for the lack of insurance, specifically, the Sabias\u27 lack of health insurance, the events described in Barry Werth\u27s Damages2 might never have happened. But once the Sabias\u27 litigation odyssey is underway, insurance plays a prominent role at every major juncture. As aptly stated by Professor Mark Rahdert, insurance usually determines whether tort cases are brought, whom plaintiffs sue, how much they claim, who provides the defense, how the case gets litigated, the dynamics of settlement, and how much plaintiffs ultimately recover. 3 These truisms are powerfully presented in Damages. In this essay, we review how insurance shaped and affected the stories of Tony, Donna, and Little Tony Sabia
Public Interest Immunity: Al Megrahi v HM Advocate
The Lockerbie case has already contributed significantly to the jurisprudence of the law of evidence. Al Megrahi v HM Advocate continues in that vein, shedding some light on how the law relating to public interest immunity now operates following devolution
An attempt to observe economy globalization: the cross correlation distance evolution of the top 19 GDP's
Economy correlations between the 19 richest countries are investigated
through their Gross Domestic Product increments. A distance is defined between
increment correlation matrix elements and their evolution studied as a function
of time and time window size. Unidirectional and Bidirectional Minimal Length
Paths are generated and analyzed for different time windows. A sort of critical
correlation time window is found indicating a transition for best observations.
The mean length path decreases with time, indicating stronger correlations. A
new method for estimating a realistic minimal time window to observe
correlations and deduce macroeconomy conclusions from such features is thus
suggested.Comment: to be published in the Dyses05 proceedings, in Int. J. Mod Phys C 15
pages, 5 figures, 1 tabl
A zeta function approach to the relation between the numbers of symmetry planes and axes of a polytope
A derivation of the Ces\`aro-Fedorov relation from the Selberg trace formula
on an orbifolded 2-sphere is elaborated and extended to higher dimensions using
the known heat-kernel coefficients for manifolds with piecewise-linear
boundaries. Several results are obtained that relate the coefficients, ,
in the Shephard-Todd polynomial to the geometry of the fundamental domain. For
the 3-sphere we show that is given by the ratio of the volume of the
fundamental tetrahedron to its Schl\"afli reciprocal.Comment: Plain TeX, 26 pages (eqn. (86) corrected
Evanescence in Coined Quantum Walks
In this paper we complete the analysis begun by two of the authors in a
previous work on the discrete quantum walk on the line [J. Phys. A 36:8775-8795
(2003) quant-ph/0303105 ]. We obtain uniformly convergent asymptotics for the
"exponential decay'' regions at the leading edges of the main peaks in the
Schr{\"o}dinger (or wave-mechanics) picture. This calculation required us to
generalise the method of stationary phase and we describe this extension in
some detail, including self-contained proofs of all the technical lemmas
required. We also rigorously establish the exact Feynman equivalence between
the path-integral and wave-mechanics representations for this system using some
techniques from the theory of special functions. Taken together with the
previous work, we can now prove every theorem by both routes.Comment: 32 pages AMS LaTeX, 5 figures in .eps format. Rewritten in response
to referee comments, including some additional references. v3: typos fixed in
equations (131), (133) and (134). v5: published versio
Casimir force between designed materials: what is possible and what not
We establish strict upper limits for the Casimir interaction between
multilayered structures of arbitrary dielectric or diamagnetic materials. We
discuss the appearance of different power laws due to frequency-dependent
material constants. Simple analytical expressions are in good agreement with
numerical calculations based on Lifshitz theory. We discuss the improvements
required for current (meta) materials to achieve a repulsive Casimir force.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, graphicx, v4: Europhysics Letters, in pres
Filtering of complex systems using overlapping tree networks
We introduce a technique that is capable to filter out information from
complex systems, by mapping them to networks, and extracting a subgraph with
the strongest links. This idea is based on the Minimum Spanning Tree, and it
can be applied to sets of graphs that have as links different sets of
interactions among the system's elements, which are described as network nodes.
It can also be applied to correlation-based graphs, where the links are
weighted and represent the correlation strength between all pairs of nodes. We
applied this method to the European scientific collaboration network, which is
composed of all the projects supported by the European Framework Program FP6,
and also to the correlation-based network of the 100 highest capitalized stocks
traded in the NYSE. For both cases we identified meaningful structures, such as
a strongly interconnected community of countries that play important role in
the collaboration network, and clusters of stocks belonging to different
sectors of economic activity, which gives significant information about the
investigated systems.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
Infrastructural Speculations: Tactics for Designing and Interrogating Lifeworlds
This paper introduces “infrastructural speculations,” an orientation toward speculative design that considers the complex and long-lived relationships of technologies with broader systems, beyond moments of immediate invention and design. As modes of speculation are increasingly used to interrogate questions of broad societal concern, it is pertinent to develop an orientation that foregrounds the “lifeworld” of artifacts—the social, perceptual, and political environment in which they exist. While speculative designs often imply a lifeworld, infrastructural speculations place lifeworlds at the center of design concern, calling attention to the cultural, regulatory, environmental, and repair conditions that enable and surround particular future visions. By articulating connections and affinities between speculative design and infrastructure studies research, we contribute a set of design tactics for producing infrastructural speculations. These tactics help design researchers interrogate the complex and ongoing entanglements among technologies, institutions, practices, and systems of power when gauging the stakes of alternate lifeworlds
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