2/16/2011· Economics
Measuring The Loss Of Enjoyment Of Life In Personal Injury Cases In Washington - Hedonic Damages
By: Stan V. Smith
In most courts, the value of a human being is not recognized. According to the laws of many states, your life isn't worth a "plugged nickel" if you no longer work.
11/25/2009· Damages
Lost Inventory and Lost Profits Damage Formulas in Litigation
This article arose from an actual litigation. To protect the identity of the parties, I usefictional names.
2/24/2015· Damages
Life-Care Planners Can Help Simplify Damages For The Jury
How do you determine what care and how much money a chronically or catastrophically disabled individual will need for the rest of his or her life? Some attorneys representing either the plaintiff or the defendant in such cases are now getting the expert help they need from specially trained rehabilitation consultants called "life care planners".
10/14/2022· Construction
The "No Damages For Delay" Clause
Construction projects involve risks. A well-structured construction contract allocates certain risks to the party that is best able to control those risks. Delay is a common risk that construction contracts allocate. A delay may increase costs for owners, contractors, and subcontractors to complete a project.
6/4/2021· Damages
First Ever Class Certification In "Natural" Mislabeling Mascara Matter
Mascara falsely labeled as being natural. Label claims “Natural” fibers on mascara are alleged and proven to be false. Class action filed and DMA Economics is tasked with computing aggregate damages to the class who purchased the mascara at a premium because they believed it was natural.
11/25/2009· Accounting
The Bias in Annual (Versus Monthly) Discounting is Immaterial
This article presents a discussion of the validity of using the mid-year convention from a different point of view than the March 2002 BVR article by Michael Dobner.
11/25/2009· Damages
Forecasting Cash Flow: Mathematics of the Payout Ratio
We all have used the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method. Many of us would agree that it is generally the best, most comprehensive, theoretically correct valuation model. It also has an empirical reason to be the best, which is that many of us calculate our discount rates using the Ibbotson data in the SBBI annual yearbooks, which are based on publicly traded stock data.
3/20/2017· Damages
Use of the Internet and social media has become an increasingly essential element of conducting business in the United States and globally, which in turn raises new issues for calculating damages and performing valuations. With almost every business now using the Internet and social media to conduct business, cases of Internet IP infringement, IP misuse, and defamation have increased and evolved. Before the rise of these new media, cases of infringement and defamation typically occurred in print or on television and were visually obvious.
10/25/2012· Damages
Determining the Value of Household Production as a Component of Economic Damages
The forensic financial expert may be familiar with assessing lost profits, earnings capacity, or even valuing a business, but what is the expert to do about damages arising from lost ability to engage in non-market work? In a personal injury, wronful death or similar tort cases, physical limitations may restrict market and non-market work the latter forming the basis for an additional source of damages.
4/3/2020· Intellectual Property
By: Scott D. Hampton
On February 24, 2020, VirnetX announced the U.S. Supreme Court denied Apple’s petition for a writ of certiorari. Apple had asked the High Court to consider the Federal Circuit’s claimed misguided use of prior license agreements to calculate patent infringement damage awards without satisfying the Supreme Court’s precedent that an apportionment between patented and non-patented features of multi-component products be performed in every case
by Elayne Angel
by Shahid H. Bokhari, PhD
by Dave Gerr, CEng, FRINA
