“Those very serious life-altering injuries generally bring more money than wrongful death,” said Douglas Laycock, a law professor at the University of Virginia who specializes in damages. Each case, he said, “can be many, many millions.”
"This could qualify as a black cloud or not, depending on how it develops," said Larry Sabato, who leads the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. "He has to resolve it."
Larry Sabato, a longtime national political analyst and director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, has closely watched Schweitzer over the years. Sabato said Schweitzer can survive the gaff, but it makes him seem “weird” and unpresidential to many voters.
Larry Sabato, the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said that as long as prosecutors do not charge Walker and as long as he wins his re-election bid Nov. 4, Walker will have a strong shot at competing for the Republican presidential nomination.
Is the Y chromosome dangerous to your health? Are men destined to live shorter lives than women? Why? What can men do to live longer healthier lives? Dr. William Steers joins Les Sinclair to talk about men’s health.
Madelyn F. Wessel, associate general counsel at the University of Virginia, suggested that universities wouldn’t be the only party to benefit from contract negotiations where a conversation about privacy is a given.
Consider a recent study by two law school professors—Yale University's Ian Ayres and the University of Virginia's Quinn Curtis —that looked at investment choices in more than 3,000 employer-sponsored 401(k) retirement plans with a total of more than $120 billion in assets. It found that participants in an average plan paid almost a full percentage point more in annual fees than they would pay for low-cost retail index funds available to all investors.
“We’re trying to push this system to the limit by having the kids eat a lot and get out and run,” said Prof. Marc Breton, with the Center for Diabetes Technology at the University of Virginia. “We want to drive the system to the ground, so whatever errors that still exist are found today, as soon as possible.”
Today’s manufacturing is not the same as it was during its heyday 50 or 60 years ago. Some manufacturers now use 3D printing, cloud computing and other customized processes to meet the demand of the 21st century global economy. However, there is “no efficient mechanism to match supply and demand within the labor market, leading to systemic inefficiency,” according to a report issued last week by the University of Virginia Miller Center Commission. The report focused specifically on small- and medium-sized manufacturers. “The pipeline of skilled workers is impeded by a K...
Each year, students who seem like they should be going to college — their transcripts look college-ready, they've applied and been accepted and even applied for financial aid — don't show up for class in the fall. In some communities, the attrition rate over the summer can be as high as 40 percent; nationally, it's estimated to be between 10 and 20 percent. What happens to these recent high school graduates that stops them from going to college, and how can colleges and counselors keep them on track? Benjamin Castleman, an assistant professor at the University of ...
Evidence shows that tenure reform can boost teacher quality in schools where good teachers are needed most. A new study of New York City schools by researchers at Stanford’s Graduate School of Education and the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education found that many ineffective teachers voluntarily left their positions when their probationary periods were extended in lieu of tenure.
SAN FRANCISCO — An investigational interactive website can both assess the driving ability of a person with type 1 diabetes and deliver an intervention that cuts their chances of having a driving mishap by more than 50%, a randomized clinical trial finds. The results were presented here at the American Diabetes Association (ADA) 2014 Scientific Sessions by Daniel J. Cox, PhD, professor in the departments of psychiatry and internal medicine at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
There are significant racial and ethnic differences in hospitalization rates among kidney failure patients on dialysis, according to a new study... Guofen Yan, PhD, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and her colleagues designed a study to examine hospitalization rates among U.S. hemodialysis patients by race/ethnicity and age to identify the dialysis patient subgroups at higher risk of hospitalization.
There are significant racial and ethnic differences in hospitalization rates among kidney failure patients on dialysis, according to a new study... Guofen Yan, PhD, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and her colleagues designed a study to examine hospitalization rates among U.S. hemodialysis patients by race/ethnicity and age to identify the dialysis patient subgroups at higher risk of hospitalization.
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato isn't so sure. "This doesn't mean a stalemate for three more years. Politicians can turn on a dime from acrimony one day to cooperation on a different topic the next day," he said. Nor does he see a real souring of the political atmosphere in Virginia generally.
By W. Bradford Wilcox, a sociology professor at the University of Virginia who directs the Home Economics Project of the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies.Forget the gender gap. The fundamental divide in the United States today runs along the lines of class and marriage. College-educated Americans and their children reap the benefits of comparatively stable, happy marriages, while less-educated Americans—especially the poor and the working-class—are more likely to struggle with family lives marked by discord and marital instability. This two-tiered ...
By John Duffy, the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law at University of Virginia School of Law.Although Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank was identified by this website and many other commentators as a major case on patent law, the Supreme Court’s unanimous resolution of the case does little to change, or even to clarify, pre-existing law. The case becomes the fourth Supreme Court decision since 2010 to hold patent claims invalid based on judicial exceptions to patentability. While Alice Corp. is only an incremental addition, the continuation of that larger trend is hugely important because,...
As academics debate the value of Clayton Christensen's "theory of disruption," this is how Taco Bell's Jeff Jenkins thinks about disruption. His college, the University of Virginia, interviewed him for a series they do on alumni, and it was fascinating to hear him talk about about he saw his job and business. The idea of disruption—of the rapid rise of a new competitor, who eats your lunch (heh)—is so deeply ingrained in this generation of businesspeople.
Jody Greenstone Miller is chief executive of Business Talent Group, a firm that she says is changing the way companies obtain top business talent for consultation and project-based work. Miller's company, which she co-founded with Amelia Warren Tyagi, has a talent pool of more than 3,000 experts — including former CEOs — on whom she can call to work with client companies. In other words, Miller supplies super-temps.