Nicholas M Pace
Author
Series
Publisher
RAND
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxv, 131 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Pretrial discovery procedures are designed to encourage an exchange of information that will help narrow the issues being litigated, eliminate surprise at trial, and achieve substantial justice. But, in recent years, some have claimed that the societal shift from paper documents to electronically stored information (ESI) has led to sharper increases in discovery costs than in the overall cost of litigation. The authors employed a case-study method...
Author
Series
Technical report volume TR-971-DOL
Publisher
RAND Health
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 106 pages)
Language
English
Description
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (ACA) changes the regulatory environment within which health insurance policies on the small-group market are bought and sold. New regulations include rate bands that limit premium price variation, risk-adjustment policies that will transfer funds from low-actuarial-risk to high-actuarial-risk plans, and requirements that plans include...