Tom Baker

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Professor of Law

3501 Sansom Street

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

http://www.law.upenn.edu/cf/faculty/thbaker/

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1.

Predicting Corporate Governance Risk: Evidence from the Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance Market

Chicago Law Review, Vol. 74, p. 487, 2007
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2008
Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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corporate governance, insurance, securities, empirical research, qualitative research

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Regulating Robo Advice Across the Financial Services Industry

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 103, P. 713, 2018, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-11
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2018
Tom Baker and Benedict G. C. Dellaert
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
Downloads 2,431 (10,284)
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Banking, insurance, securities, financial technology, fintech, financial product intermediary regulation, roboadvisor, roboadvisors, robo-advisor, robo-advisors, robo adviser, robo advisers, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, competence, honesty, suitability, digital investment advice

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The Missing Monitor in Corporate Governance: The Directors' & Officers' Liability Insurer

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 95, p. 1795, 2007
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2009
Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Fordham University School of Law
Downloads 1,452 (23,145)
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insurance, corporate governance, directors and officers

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How the Merits Matter: D&O Insurance and Securities Settlements

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 157, pp. 755, 2009, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-22, Fordham Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 1101068
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 17 May 2008 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2009
Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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Securities, class actions, settlement, insurance, litigation

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Predicting Securities Fraud Settlements and Amounts: A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Federal Securities Class Action Lawsuits

Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Vol. 9, Pg. 482, Sept. 2012, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-20
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 30 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 26 Jul 2012
Blakeley B. McShane, Oliver P. Watson, Tom Baker and Sean J. Griffith
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Tudor Investment Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Fordham University School of Law
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class, action, securities, fraud, lawsuit, litigation, bayesian, hierarchical

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Medical Malpractice and the Insurance Underwriting Cycle

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Jun 2005
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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insurance, medical malpractice, torts, underwriting cycle

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Liability Insurance as Tort Regulation: Six Ways that Liability Insurance Shapes Tort Law in Action

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2005
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 27 Jun 2006
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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torts, insurance, liability

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'You Want Insurance with That?' Using Behavioral Economics to Protect Consumers from Add-on Insurance Products

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, Vol. 20, Pg. 1, 2013, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-1
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 12 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 09 May 2014
Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Connecticut - School of Law
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Consumer Protection Law, After-Sales Service Warranty, Extended Warranties, Add-on Insurance, Insurance Pricing, Sale Ban, Price Regulation, Situational Monopoly, Shrouded Attributes

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The Law and Economics of Liability Insurance: A Theoretical and Empirical Review

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-09
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2012
Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Connecticut - School of Law
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Liability insurance contracts, ex ante and ex post moral hazard, risk, social welfare, canonical model of the interaction between insurance and tort liability

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Containing the Promise of Insurance: Adverse Selection and Risk Classification

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Oct 2002
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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insurance, adverse selection, risk classification

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Health Insurance, Risk, and Responsibility after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 159, pp. 1577, 2011, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-03
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2011
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Health law, health care, insurance, insurance law, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

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Blood Money, New Money and the Moral Economy of Tort Law in Action

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 30 Mar 2001
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Tort law, insurance, subrogation, settlement, professional norms

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The Virtues of Uncertainty in Law: An Experimental Approach

Iowa Law Review, Vol. 89, p. 443, 2004
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Mar 2003 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2015
Tom Baker, Alon Harel and Tamar Kugler
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty of Law and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Psychology
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Insurance and the Law

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Oct 2000
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Reconsidering the Harvard Medical Practice Study Conclusions About the Validity of Medical Malpractice Claims

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 May 2005
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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malpractice, health care, liability

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Jackpot Justice and the American Tort System: Thinking Beyond Junk Science

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Jul 2008
Tom Baker, Herbert M. Kritzer and Neil Vidmar
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, University of Minnesota Law School and Duke University - School of Law
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Torts

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Liability Insurance at the Tort-Crime Boundary

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-32, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 08-52
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Dec 2008
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Liability insurance, tort, torts, criminal law, crime torts, economic incentives, morals, moral reasoning, consequentialism, price setting, loss spreading

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Behavioral Finance, Decumulation, and the Regulatory Strategy for Robo-Advice

In THE DISRUPTIVE IMPACT OF FINTECH ON RETIREMENT SYSTEMS (Julie Agnew & Olivia S. Mitchell eds., Oxford 2019), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-19
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 25 Nov 2019
Tom Baker and Benedict G. C. Dellaert
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
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Investment advice, financial services, automated decumulation, retirement planning, robo advisers, robo-advisers, roboadvisers, longevity risk management, consumer protection, behavioral effects, regulatory requirements

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Can Consumers Make Affordable Care Affordable? The Value of Choice Architecture

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-28, Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 13-56
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 11 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2014
Eric J. Johnson, Ran Hassin, Tom Baker, Allison Bajger and Galen Treuer
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Columbia University - Department of Psychology and University of Miami
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Choice Architecture, healthcare, decision making, Affordable Care Act, Insurance Decisions

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Allowing Patients to Waive the Right to Sue for Medical Malpractice: A Response to Thaler and Sunstein

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 104, Pg. 233, 2010, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-06, Albany Law School Research Paper No. 09-07
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 26 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2010
Tom Baker and Timothy D. Lytton
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Georgia State University College of Law
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Nudge, liberty, health care, waiver, cost-benefit analysis, behavioral economics, professional negligence, torts, liability insurance, healthcare costs, bias perception, tort compensation

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Insurance in Sociolegal Research

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Insurance in Sociolegal Research

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-07
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 11 May 2010
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Tort law in action, accident compensation, liability insurance as governance, decision-making, governance in other fields of law, governance in economics, risk, law and society

Insurance in Sociolegal Research

Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Vol. 6, pp. 433-447, 2010
Posted: 14 Nov 2010
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses

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The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses

Vanderbilt Law and Economics Research Paper No. 08-03
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 31 Jul 2006 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2012
Patricia Born, Patricia Born, W. Kip Viscusi and Tom Baker
Florida State University - College of BusinessFlorida State University - College of Business, Vanderbilt University - Law School and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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medical malpractice, tort reform, insurance

The Effects of Tort Reform on Medical Malpractice Insurers' Ultimate Losses

NBER Working Paper No. w12086
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 11 May 2006 Last Revised: 11 Jul 2022
Patricia Born, W. Kip Viscusi, Patricia Born, Patricia Born and Tom Baker
Florida State University, Vanderbilt University - Law School, Florida State University - College of BusinessFlorida State University - College of Business and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Liability Insurance, Moral Luck, and Auto Accidents

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Jul 2007
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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insurance, moral luck, philosophy, automobile, torts

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Regulation by Liability Insurance: From Auto to Lawyers Professional Liability

UCLA Law Review, vol. 60, p. 1412, 2013, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-4
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2013
Tom Baker and Rick Swedloff
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Rutgers Law School
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Liability insurance, administrative regulation, risk, behavior, directors and officers liability insurance, car insurance, insurance for guns, malpractice insurance

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Tontines for the Invincibles: Enticing Low Risks Into the Health Insurance Pool With an Idea From Insurance History and Behavioral Economics

Wisconsin Law Review, Vol. 2010, Pg. 79, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-07
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2010
Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Connecticut - School of Law
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Health law and policy, insuring healthy young adults, health coverage, risk, tontine, law and economics, cognitive bias, irrational insurance behavior

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Mutually Assured Protection Among Large U.S. Law Firms

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, Vol. 24, p. 1, 2017, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-17
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 11 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2018
Tom Baker and Rick Swedloff
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Rutgers Law School
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Insurance Law, Legal Malpractice, Lawyers' Professional Liability Insurance, Professional Responsibility, Ethics, Damages, Large Firm Liability, Mutual Insurance, Stock Insurers, Reinsurance, Risk

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Liability Insurance and the Regulation of Firearms

SUING THE FIREARMS INDUSTRY, T. Lytton, ed., University of Michigan Press, 2005
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Nov 2004
Tom Baker and Thomas O. Farrish
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Connecticut - School of Law
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Insurance, guns, regulation

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The Shifting Terrain of Risk and Uncertainty on the Liability Insurance Field

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The Shifting Terrain of Risk and Uncertainty on the Liability Insurance Field

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 60, P. 521, 2011, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 10-32
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 05 Aug 2013
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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torts, liability insurance, property insurance, relative premiums, empirical research, risk, uncertainty, premia, tort reform, insurance underwriting cycle

The Shifting Terrain of Risk and Uncertainty on the Liability Insurance Field

Journal of Financial Perspectives, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2013
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 29 Nov 2017
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Liability Insurer Data as a Window on Lawyers’ Professional Liability

UC Irvine Law Review, Vol. 5, P. 1273, 2015, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 15-16
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 May 2015 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2016
Tom Baker and Rick Swedloff
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Rutgers Law School
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Torts, professional negligence, legal malpractice, professional responsibility, ethics, insurance, damages, empirical studies, quantitative analysis, liability insurance premia, large firm liability, small firm lawyer liability, lack of mandatory reporting

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In Defense of the Restatement of Liability Insurance Law

George Mason Law Review, Vol. 24, P. 767, 2017., U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-001, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-15
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2018
Tom Baker and Kyle D. Logue
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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Insurance law, Restatement of Law Liability Insurance, RLLI, common law, insurers' defense obligations & costs, bias, markets, risk, risks, contracts, doctrine of contra proferentem, misrepresentation, duty to defend or make reasonable settlement decisions, empirical & behavioral economics

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Behavioral Economics and Insurance Law: The Importance of Equilibrium Analysis

Published in: Doron Teichman & Eyal Zamir (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Economics and the Law (2014)
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 28 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2015
Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Connecticut - School of Law
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Insurance, law & economics, rational behavior, informational asymmetry, equilibrium

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Insuring Morality

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 04 Nov 2000
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Mandatory Rules and Default Rules in Insurance Contracts

In The Law & Economics of Insurance (Elgar Publishing, Forthcoming), U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-024, U of Michigan Public Law Research Paper No. 377, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 13-38
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 05 Sep 2014
Tom Baker and Kyle D. Logue
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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contract law, insurance, rules, default, mandatory

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What History Can Tell Us About the Future of Insurance and Litigation after COVID-19

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 71, p. 169, 2022, Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper No. 2022-07, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 22-01
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 31 May 2023
Kenneth S. Abraham and Tom Baker
University of Virginia School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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tort liability, insurance, COVID

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Uncertainty > Risk: Lessons for Legal Thought from the Insurance Runoff Market

Boston College Law Review, Vol. 62, P. 59, 2021, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 20-03
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2021
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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legal theory, insurance markets, runoff insurance, reinsurance, risk management, assessment & pricing, uncertainty, legacy liability, torts, law & economics, Lloyd's of London, Reconstruction and Renewal, asbestos, environmental damage, long-term care

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Transparency through Insurance: Mandates Dominate Discretion

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-20
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 May 2009
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Liability insurance, civil justice system, empirical research, incomplete knowledge, bias, transparency, mandatory disclosure of liability insurance data, expansion of mandatory claims reporting

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Insurance Against Misinformation in the Securities Market

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 04 Sep 2007
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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insurance, securities, regulation, financial markets

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How Liability Insurers Protect Patients and Improve Safety

DePaul Law Review, Vol. 68, Pg. 209, 2019, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 18-20, U of Texas Law, Law and Econ Research Paper No. 582
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 10 May 2019
Tom Baker and Charles Silver
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Texas at Austin - School of Law
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Law and economics, torts, health care, healthcare providers, doctors, hospitals, medical malpractice, liability insurance, risk management, insurance as governance, incentives, moral hazard, patient safety organizations, PSOs

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Partitioning Sorted Sets: Overcoming Choice Overload While Maintaining Decision Quality

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 18-2
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 05 Dec 2017
Benedict G. C. Dellaert, Tom Baker and Eric J. Johnson
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing
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Choice architecture, Partitioning, Sorting, Decision Making, Product Recommendations

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Defending the Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance: 'Regulatory Considerations'

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Apr 2017
Tom Baker and Kyle D. Logue
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Michigan Law School
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How Crime Shapes Insurance and Insurance Shapes Crime

Journal of Legal Analysis, Vol.15, p.183, 2023, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-10
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2023
Tom Baker and Anja Shortland
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and King's College, London
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Insurance against crime, governance, risk assessment & management, crime prevention, security, technology, behavioral economics, theft, kidnap & hijack for ransom, fraud, ransomware

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Choice Architecture for Healthier Insurance Choices: Ordering and Partitioning Can Improve Decisions

ERIM Report Series Reference
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 11 Jul 2019
Benedict G. C. Dellaert, Eric J. Johnson and Tom Baker
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE), Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Marketing and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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choice architecture, decision-making, consumer decision process, health insurance choice, consumer welfare

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Back to the Future of Cyber Insurance

2019:3 PLUS Journal 1, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 20-40
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 16 Jun 2020
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Cyber risk, liability insurance, fintech, loss prevention, mitigation, contract design, pricing, forms, limits management, reinsurance, claims disputing, clarification, boundary between traditional and cyber insurance

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Where’s the Insurance in Mass Tort Litigation?

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 23-07, Texas Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 24 May 2023 Last Revised: 09 Jun 2023
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Insurance markets, risk assessment & management, mass torts, complex litigation, class actions, liability, legal & settlement strategies, non-recourse financing, bottomry contracts, respondentia

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Insurance and Enterprise: Cyber Insurance for Ransomware

Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, Vol.48, p.275, 2023, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-41
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 28 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2023
Tom Baker and Anja Shortland
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and King's College, London
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Insurance markets, risk assessment & management, cybercrime, cyberattack, ransomware, data breaches, governance, liability, moral hazard, loss reduction & mitigation, government intervention

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Everything's Bigger in Texas: Except the Medmal Settlements

Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, Vol. 22, P. 1, 2016, Claremont McKenna College Robert Day School of Economics and Finance Research Paper No. 2865900, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 16-27
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 08 Nov 2016
Tom Baker, Eric Helland and Jonathan Klick
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Empirical Legal Studies, Blood Money, Tort Law, Medical Malpractice Litigation, Doctors, Insurance, Settlements, Incentives, Personal Bankruptcy, Homestead Exemption

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The Government Behind Insurance Governance: Lessons for Ransomware

Regulation and Governance, 2022, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 22-40
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2023
Tom Baker and Anja Shortland
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and King's College, London
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Insurance markets, risk assessment & management, cybercrime, cyberattack, ransomware, governance, public policy, government regulation, liability, standard setting, data sharing

48.

Tontines for the Young Invincibles

Regulation, pp. 20-26, Winter 2009-2010
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 12 Jan 2010
Tom Baker and Peter Siegelman
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and University of Connecticut - School of Law
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The Forfeiture of Coverage Defenses Rule: An Economic Analysis

Northwestern Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-10, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-32, U of Michigan Law & Econ Research Paper No. 17-013
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2017
Tom Baker, Ezra Friedman and Kyle D. Logue
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law and University of Michigan Law School
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Insurance, Liability Insurance, Restatement of the Law: Liability Insurance, Moral Hazard, Duty to Defend, Forfeiture of Coverage Defenses

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Offer-of-Judgment Rules and Civil Litigation: An Empirical Study of Automobile Insurance Litigation in the East

Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 59, No. 1, pp. 155-196, 2006
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Jun 2013
Albert Yoon and Tom Baker
University of Toronto Faculty of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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What Litigation Funders Can Learn About Settlement Rights From the Law of Liability Insurance

Theoretical Inquiries of Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 22 Nov 2023
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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insurance law, legal history, liability, litigation, settlement rights, Sysco Corp. v. Glaz LLC

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The New Health Care Federalism: An Empirical and Theoretical Assessment of Federalism Dynamics in Health Care and Beyond

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 14-34, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 525
Posted: 16 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2023
Tom Baker, Abbe R. Gluck, Nicole Huberfeld and Theodore Ruger
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Yale University - Law School, Boston University - School of Public Health and University of Pennsylvania Law School

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health law, constitutional law, legislation, health care federalism, empirical, insurance, Medicaid, ACA, Affordable Care Act, PPACA, Obamacare, healthcare reform, shared state-federal policymaking

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Putting Health Back into Health Insurance Choice

Medical Care Research and Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 04 Apr 2014
Pavel D. Atanasov and Tom Baker
Pytho LLC and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

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Health Insurance Choice, Employer Health Plans, Consumer Choice

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1.

Teaching Real Torts: Using Barry Werth's Damages in the Law School Classroom

Nevada Law Journal, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 10 Oct 2005
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Torts, damages, insurance, Sabia v. Norwalk Hospital

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Liability and Insurance after September 11: Embracing Risk Meets the Precautionary Principle

U. of Connecticut School of Law Working Paper No. 4
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Oct 2005
Tom Baker
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Risk, insurance, liability, September 11, insurance regulations, assessment approach