Biography

Robert Reville is a senior economist at RAND whose research focuses on insurance and compensation for accidents and injuries. He is currently leading a three-year research and development project to develop new methods for liability insurance companies to manage and underwrite the risk of future mass litigation. The project combines cutting-edge computer science with RAND's approach to multidisciplinary public policy research, and it is being conducted in collaboration with Risk Management Solutions, a catastrophe-modeling firm based in the Silicon Valley. From 2002 to 2008, Bob served as director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ). During his tenure as director, ICJ doubled its annual revenue and started new research streams on corporate ethics and governance and on entrepreneurship. In addition, Bob founded and co-directed the RAND Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy, and research from this center was acknowledged as critical in the congressional decision to renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act in 2005 and 2007. Bob has led a series of studies at RAND on workplace injury compensation policy and the impact of disability on employment, and several recommendations from his work were adopted in reform legislation in California in 2004. He serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bob received his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.

Biography

Robert Reville is a senior economist at RAND whose research focuses on insurance and compensation for accidents and injuries. He is currently leading a three-year research and development project to develop new methods for liability insurance companies to manage and underwrite the risk of future mass litigation. The project combines cutting-edge computer science with RAND's approach to multidisciplinary public policy research, and it is being conducted in collaboration with Risk Management Solutions, a catastrophe-modeling firm based in the Silicon Valley. From 2002 to 2008, Bob served as director of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice (ICJ). During his tenure as director, ICJ doubled its annual revenue and started new research streams on corporate ethics and governance and on entrepreneurship. In addition, Bob founded and co-directed the RAND Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy, and research from this center was acknowledged as critical in the congressional decision to renew the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act in 2005 and 2007. Bob has led a series of studies at RAND on workplace injury compensation policy and the impact of disability on employment, and several recommendations from his work were adopted in reform legislation in California in 2004. He serves on the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Bob received his Ph.D. in economics from Brown University.

Biography

Reville is a labor economist whose research focuses on compensation and insurance public policy. Reville has recently written several articles on terrorism insurance. He is a national expert in workplace injury compensation policy and the impact of disability on employment and has written extensively on workers' compensation in California, New Mexico, and other states. His publications in this area have been widely cited in the California legislature and helped bring about new legislation to improve the workers' compensation system in the state. He was recently appointed to the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He also serves on the Workers' Compensation Steering Committee of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Recently, he has been devoting his time to a joint venture between ICJ and Risk Management Solutions (RMS).

Reville's RAND publications include An Evaluation of California's Permanent Disability Rating System (Robert T. Reville et al., 2005). He has coauthored several recent journal articles, including "How Does Health Insurance Affect Workers' Compensation Filing?" (Economic Inquiry, 2007); "Physician Shopping in Workers' Compensation: Evidence from California" (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2006); and "Forty Years of Civil Jury Verdicts" (Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2004).