Redress Schemes for Personal Injuries.

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""Acknowledgements"" ""Table of Contents and Authors"" ""Detailed Table of Contents"" ""List of Tables"" ""List of Figures"" ""Part I: Introduction"" ""1. An Introduction to the Schemes"" ""Background to No-Fault Schemes"" ""Summary of the Schemes"" ""A. General Injuries"" ""B. Workers' Compensation"" ""C. Motor Vehicle Injuries"" ""D. Patient Injury Schemes"" ""E. Medicines"" ""F. Industry Arrangements in the UK for Research Injuries"" ""G. Birth Injuries"" ""H. Social Schemes"" ""Part II: New Zealand and Australia"" ""2. New Zealand: The Accident Compensation Scheme"" ""A. General Description""""B. Replacement of Tort Liability"" ""C. The Five Accounts and their Funding"" ""D. Eligibility"" ""E. Compensation"" ""F. Procedure"" ""G. Statistics"" ""H. Improving Safety"" ""I. Workplace Safety"" ""J. Conclusions"" ""3. Australia: Workers' Compensation"" ""Workers' Compensation: A Global Approach"" ""A. Western Australia Workers' Compensation"" ""B. Workers' Compensation Arrangements in the Northern Territory"" ""C. Worker's Compensation Arrangements in the Australian Capital Territory"" ""D. South Australia's Workers' Rehabilitation and Compensation Scheme""""E. The Tasmanian Workers' Compensation Scheme"" ""F. The Tasmanian Asbestos Compensation Scheme"" ""G. New South Wales"" ""H. New South Wales Work (Dust Diseases) Related Injuries"" ""Part III: Nordic States"" ""4. Nordic Injury Compensation Schemes"" ""B. Integration of Coverage and Entitlements"" ""C. Holistic Systems and Nordic Philosophy"" ""D. Levels of Damages"" ""E. Patient Complaints"" ""5. Sweden"" ""A. General Benefits and Arrangements"" ""B. Swedish Motor Vehicle Insurance"" ""C. Swedish Patient Insurance""""D. Swedish Drug Insurance"" ""6. Denmark"" ""A. General Benefits"" ""B. Danish Industrial Injuries"" ""C. Danish Patient Insurance"" ""7. Finland"" ""A. General Benefits"" ""B. Finland's Workers' Compensation System"" ""C. Finland's Motor Vehicle Insurance"" ""D. Finnish Patient Insurance"" ""E. Finnish Drug Insurance"" ""8. Norway"" ""A. General Benefits"" ""B. Norway's Patient Compensation System"" ""C. Norwegian Drug Insurance"" ""Part IV: US Schemes"" ""9. No-Fault Schemes in the USA"" ""A. Veterans' Healthcare"" ""B. COPIC"" ""10. Motor Vehicle Coverage in the USA""""A. Background to No-Fault"" ""B. The Columbia Plan"" ""C. The Keeton-O'Connell Plan"" ""D. Costs of No-Fault"" ""E. Florida"" ""F. North Dakota"" ""G. Colorado"" ""H. Conclusions"" ""11. The Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program"" ""A. Organisation and Structure"" ""B. Program Funding"" ""C. Eligible Injuries"" ""D. Limitations"" ""E. The Claims Process"" ""F. Awards"" ""G. Appeals"" ""H. Parallel Regulatory Investigations into Care"" ""I. Claim Statistics"" ""J. Actuarial Soundness of the Fund""