The Forensic Economics of Medical Monitoring Damages in the United States

Abstract

The cost of medical monitoring is a relatively new category of compensatory damages in the United States. It emerged in the late 1980s, received increasing attention by the courts through the 1990s, and remains a highly controversial area of economic damages.

Citation

Barrett, G.A. and Brookshire, M.L. (2005), "The Forensic Economics of Medical Monitoring Damages in the United States", Gaughan, P.A. and Thornton, R.J. (Ed.) Developments in Litigation Economics (Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis, Vol. 87), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 9-27. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1569-3759(05)87002-0