Mit James S. Kakalik u.a. (Rand Institute for Civil Justice 1983).

Studies by the Organized Crime Task Force and the Rand Institute, a research group, maintain that Mafia influence has created cartels in commercial garbage collection.

New York: Rand Institute, 1972.

Peter Chalk, a researcher with the Washington office of the Rand Institute, offers a "very rough" estimate of about $600,000 to $1 million each month.

"The Rand Institute found that having the right to sue drives up premiums by 20 to 30 percent," said Bill Guhl, Mr. Schundler's spokesman.

The Rand Institute for Civil Justice, a California research organization, estimates that total claims could grow to as much as $250 billion.

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This estimate is independently confirmed by Stephen Carroll, an economist at the Rand Institute for Civil Justice in California.

In a recent study, the Rand Institute for Civil Justice, a California research organization, estimated that total claims could grow to as much as $250 billion.

Nationwide, insurance premiums for bodily injury rose by 150 percent during the 1980's, the Rand Institute said, even as accident rates declined and insurance industry profits stagnated.