Pursuing "Deep Pockets": Insurance-Related Issues in Judicial Settlement Work

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 111-153

  Burns, Stacy Lee ^a  

^a LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep pockets; Insurance; Settlement work

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842589252     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241603261751     Document Type: Review

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