Determining Economic Damages
- Publisher:
- James Publishing
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-31
- Authors:
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Stanley P. Stephenson
David A. Macpherson - ISBN:
- 978-1-58012-257-3
Description:
Uses proven procedures, checklists, samples and tables to value economic loss in wrongful death, personal injury, and selected types of business and commercial cases. Learn how to calculate damages, what to ask a forensic economist, which tables to consult for current information on damages and more
Preliminary Sections
Part I. Determining economic damages in personal earnings cases
- The damages expert's tasks
- The litigator's tasks: choosing and engaging an expert
- The litigator's tasks: deposing and examining and examining the expert
- Overview of data needed by the economist
- Past and future earnings
- Determining the value of employer paid benefits
- Adjusting for personal consumption and support factors
- Determining the value of non-market work, especially household production, as a component of economic damages
- Loss duration; life expectancy; and worklife expectancy
- Income tax consequences of damages awards and settlements
- Using reports of medical and rehabilitation experts
- Reserved
- Interest rates and present value
- A sampling of methods to calculate personal earnings losses
- Reserved
- Reserved
- Damages in employment disputes
Part II. Determining economic damages in commercial litigation