by Gerald D. Martin
How to Calculate and
Prove
Economic Loss
This
toolbook is loaded with practical forms, procedures, tables, and tactics
from two veteran economists who have consulted on thousands of cases. The
explanations are thorough, the math is straightforward, and the advice is
detailed and valuable. Whether or not your case justifies retaining an
expert, Dr. Gerald Martin’s Determining Economic Damages can guide
you start-to-finish through damage assessment and proof:
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Determine past and future income losses.
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Compute the value of fringe benefits.
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Adjust for personal consumption.
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Adjust for income taxes.
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Measure the replacement value of household services.
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Compute life and worklife expectancy.
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Convert medical and rehabilitation reports into dollar values.
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Convert future losses to their present value.
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Put everything together to calculate loss.
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Prepare your case and expert for trial.
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Depose and cross-examine the opposing expert.
Determining Economic
Damages comes with over 100 questionnaires, Tables, and Worksheets developed
by expert finance professor Dr. Gerald Martin. Some of the helpful
forms include:
The Economist
Questions for Qualifying your Expert at Trial, Preparing Your Expert for
Trial, Government Agency Addresses, Suggested Personal Library Holdings,
Personal Injury/Wrongful Death Bibliography, Checklists of Information to be
Provided by Attorney, Checklist of Information to be Provided by Economist,
Personal Injury Questionnaire, Wrongful Death Questionnaire, Wrongful
Termination Questionnaire
Past & Future Earnings
Table of Average Weekly Hours Earnings, Wage Growth in Different Industries,
Changes in Consumer Price Indexes 1913-96, Productivity Trends in Selected
Industries, Tables of Earnings for College Graduates by 6 Variables,
Household Data, Median Weekly Earnings, 12 Tables of Geographic Comparisons,
Farm Worker Demographics and Earnings, Consumer Price Index: Transportation
and Medical Care, Index of Prices for Farmers, Union Contract Excerpt,
Cohort Tables, Earnings Forecasts 1994-2075, Inflation Forecasts, and dozens
more tables
Determining the Value of Benefits
Employer Costs, Employment Cost Index for Civilian Workers 1982-96,
Total Benefits as Percent of Payroll,
Adjusting for Personal Consumption and Support Factors,
Personal Injury Report, Wrongful Death Report, Wrongful Birth Report, With
Samples: Summary of Losses, Basis for Evaluation, Calculations
The Value of Household Services
Personal Injury Report, Wrongful Death Report, Wrongful Birth Report,
With Samples: Summary of Losses, Basis for Evaluation, Calculations
Life and Work Expectancy
Personal Injury Report, Wrongful Death Report, Wrongful Birth Report,
With Samples: Summary of Losses, Basis for Evaluation, Calculations
Using Reports of Medical and Rehabilitation
Experts
Personal Injury Report, Wrongful Death Report, Wrongful Birth Report, With
Samples: Summary of Losses, Basis for Evaluation, Calculations
Methods to Calculate Losses
Personal Injury Report, Wrongful Death Report, Wrongful Birth Report,
With Samples: Summary of Losses, Basis for Evaluation, Calculations
Putting It All Together
Summary of Losses (Personal Injury, Wrongful Death, Wrongful Birth), Basis
for Evaluation, Calculations of Losses
Use proven
procedures, checklists, samples and tables to value economic loss in
wrongful death and PI cases. Learn how to calculate damages, what to ask an
expert economist, which tables to consult for current information on damages
and more. This book also comes with a free searchable CD-ROM.
Updated annually. ISBN 0-938065-41-6 Book price: $99.00
B7
Reviews
"This loose-leaf book is a gold mine of information that
would assist an attorney in selecting a forensic economist, an economist who was desirous
of starting a new career in forensic economics, and an experienced economist who wanted to
pick up useful ideas and readily available data that Martin has put together in one place.
... This is a master work and it shows."
Excerpted from the Journal of Forensic
Economics, Winter, 1997.
"Determining Economic Damages is the best
book available, and one which thoroughly addresses the fundamental questions regarding
assessment and loss of economic damages."
D. Orlowski, Scottsdale, AZ
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