SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Pristine throughout. Even the dust jacket is in excellent condition. It looks like this book has never been read.

Who on Earth Is Tom Baker?

Biographies & Memoirs

Baker, Tom

Arts & Literature

Harper Collins, 1997

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Shareholder litigation and class action suits play a key role in protecting investors and regulating big businesses. But Directors and Officers liability insurance shields corporations and their managers from the financial consequences of many illegal acts, as evidenced by the recent Enron scandal and many of last year’s corporate financial meltdowns. Ensuring Corporate Misconduct demonstrates for the first time how corporations use insurance to avoid responsibility for corporate misconduct, dangerously undermining the impact of securities laws. As Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith demonstrate, this need not be the case. Opening up the formerly closed world of corporate insurance, the authors interviewed people from every part of the industry in order to show the different instances where insurance companies could step in and play a constructive role in strengthening corporate governance—yet currently do not. Ensuring Corporate Misconduct concludes with a set of readily implementable reforms that could significantly rehabilitate the system.

Ensuring Corporate Misconduct: How Liability Insurance Undermines Shareholder Litigation

Business & Money

Griffith, Sean J.

Insurance

University of Chicago Press

American health care is in crisis because of exploding medical malpractice litigation. Insurance premiums for doctors and malpractice lawsuits are skyrocketing, rendering doctors both afraid and unable to afford to continue to practice medicine. Undeserving victims sue at the drop of a hat, egged on by greedy lawyers, and receive eye-popping awards that insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors themselves struggle to pay. The plaintiffs and lawyers always win; doctors, and the nonlitigious, always lose; and affordable health care is the real victim. This, according to Tom Baker, is the myth of medical malpractice, and as a reality check he offers The Medical Malpractice Myth, a stunning dismantling of this familiar, but inaccurate, picture of the health care industry. Are there too many medical malpractice suits? No, according to Baker; there is actually a great deal more medical malpractice, with only a fraction of the cases ever seeing the inside of a courtroom. Is too much litigation to blame for the malpractice insurance crisis? No, for that we can look to financial trends and competitive behavior in the insurance industry. Are these lawsuits frivolous? Very rarely. Point by point, Baker—a leading authority on insurance and law—pulls together the research that demolishes the myths that have taken hold about medical malpractice and suggests a series of legal reforms that would help doctors manage malpractice insurance while also improving patient safety and medical accountability. President Bush has made medical malpractice reform a priority in his last term in office, but if history is any indication, legislative reform would only worsen the situation and perpetuate the gross misunderstanding of it. The debate surely will be transformed by The Medical Malpractice Myth, a book aimed squarely at general readers but with radical conclusions that speak to the highest level of domestic policymaking.

The Medical Malpractice Myth

Health, Fitness & Dieting

American health care is in crisis because of exploding medical malpractice litigation. Insurance premiums for doctors and malpractice lawsuits are skyrocketing, rendering doctors both afraid and unable to afford to continue to practice medicine. Undeserving victims sue at the drop of a hat, egged on by greedy lawyers, and receive eye-popping awards that insurance companies, hospitals, and doctors themselves struggle to pay. The plaintiffs and lawyers always win; doctors, and the nonlitigious, always lose; and affordable health care is the real victim. This, according to Tom Baker, is the myth of medical malpractice, and as a reality check he offers The Medical Malpractice Myth, a stunning dismantling of this familiar, but inaccurate, picture of the health care industry. Are there too many medical malpractice suits? No, according to Baker; there is actually a great deal more medical malpractice, with only a fraction of the cases ever seeing the inside of a courtroom. Is too much litigation to blame for the malpractice insurance crisis? No, for that we can look to financial trends and competitive behavior in the insurance industry. Are these lawsuits frivolous? Very rarely. Point by point, Baker—a leading authority on insurance and law—pulls together the research that demolishes the myths that have taken hold about medical malpractice and suggests a series of legal reforms that would help doctors manage malpractice insurance while also improving patient safety and medical accountability. President Bush has made medical malpractice reform a priority in his last term in office, but if history is any indication, legislative reform would only worsen the situation and perpetuate the gross misunderstanding of it. The debate surely will be transformed by The Medical Malpractice Myth, a book aimed squarely at general readers but with radical conclusions that speak to the highest level of domestic policymaking.

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This is the story of Robert Caligari - a thoroughly evil 13-year-old who gets his kicks from kicking pigs. After a humiliating episode with a bacon butty, Robert realizes just how much he loathes the human race - and his revenge is truly terrible.

Boy Who Kicked Pigs

Teen & Young Adult

Faber Faber Inc

Insurance Law and Policy: Cases, Materials, and Problems

Business

Aspen Law & Business

Explore cold and shivery legends, spectral stories, and phantom folklore of Indiana’s forgotten country houses, decrepit graveyards, and lonely wooded lanes. Read about the mysterious mansion of Skiles Test, and see the strange, blue, dancing orbs that beckon in the night. Stop for a drink at the Slippery Noodle Inn and catch a glimpse of spectral bootleggers and outlaws who still call the place their home. Climb the One Hundred Steps of Stepp Cemetery and plummet in a wave of terror through the brambles that surround the ancient burying place of a tormented Gypsy band. \nTheres more than corn in Indiana; ghosts and fear stalk the fields under the nighttime sky.

Haunted Indianapolis: And Other Indiana Ghost Stories

Religion & Spirituality

Titchenal, Jonathan

Occult & Paranormal

Schiffer

Explore Indiana, perched on the disquieting frontier between the banal and the bizarre! Visit haunted hollows and baleful abodes of the Hoosier state's most dreadful locales. Take a ride down the bannister of Culbertson Mansion, thrill to a true account of the possession of Lurrancy Vennum, splash into the murky waters beneath Lake Busco to find a real-life sea monster, and learn the twisted history of William Dudley Pelley, a man who claimed contact with beings from another world! Ride the Vincennes Airship, high above the windswept plains with the "Hartford Visitors." Indiana has witches, werewolves, ghosts, ghouls, and Hairy Men galore, in this shivery exploration of the dark side of Hoosier history.

Indiana Ghost Folklore

History

Americas

Do you know what an "urban legend" is? They are those stories that make the rounds at high school hangouts and college dorms, camping trips and late night sleepovers, offices and water coolers as frightening tales too good to be true, and too scary to be fiction. These stories include the short and shivery legend, "The Vanishing Hitchhiker;" the macabre comedy, "The Hook;" and the scream-till-you-drop terror tale, "Bloody Mary." Experience the horror of lurking killers, lonely ghosts, and attacks from insects that seem to come from the pit of some forgotten nightmare. And who knows? It all might be true!

Scary Urban Legends

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Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

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