Pain and suffering awards for consumer product accidents: Effects of plaintiff-defendant liability and injury severity

Proceedings of the XIVth Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association and 44th Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Association, 'Ergonomics for the New Millennium'

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 120-123

  Laughery, Kenneth R ^a   Laughery, Brenda R ^a   Meingast, Melissa E ^a   Bean, Richard N ^b   Wogalter, Michael S ^c  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BRAIN; ECONOMICS; ERGONOMICS; JOB ANALYSIS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS; BRAIN DAMAGE; WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 1842785872     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1177/154193120004402506     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (2)

1. Wissler, R.L., Evans, D.L., Hart, A.J., Morry, M.M. and Saks, M.J. (1997). Explaining "pain and suffering" awards: The role of injury characteristics and fault attributions. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 181-207.
2. Laughery, K.R., Laughery, B.R., Meingast, M.E., Bean, R.N. and Wogalter, M.S. (2000). Allocation of pain and suffering awards for consumer product accidents: Effects of level of economic damages. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 44th Annual Meeting, this volume.