Personal Injury Litigation Support

Our personal injury economic damages analysis calculates lost earnings, lost household services, and future medical and life-care costs, with each assumption stated so it can be tested. It works alongside our employment litigation support and economic consulting and valuation practices, and complements commercial litigation support where a matter overlaps. Life-expectancy inputs draw on published CDC life tables.

Personal injury economic damages we quantify

• Lost earnings — past wage loss on the record, and the benefits that travel with it.
• Lost earning capacity — the difference between the pre-injury and post-injury earnings path, with worklife expectancy stated explicitly.
• Household services — the replacement cost of what the plaintiff can no longer do, valued from published time-use data rather than assertion.
• Life care plan costing — present value of a life care planner’s recommendations, with medical inflation and discounting shown separately.
• Wrongful death — financial support and services to survivors, net of personal consumption.

Pricing a life care plan is its own assignment. If that is what you are here for — reducing a planner’s recommendations to present value, or testing the other side’s numbers — see Life Care Plan Present Value Analysis for how the schedule is built, what medical inflation and discount rates we apply, and what we need from you to start.

Matters we work

• Catastrophic injury and traumatic brain injury
• Motor vehicle and trucking
• Premises liability, including slip and fall
• Product liability, individual and class
• Toxic exposure
• Wrongful death
• Wildfire and mass disaster injury claims

In mass disaster and wildfire matters the analysis often runs across an inventory of claimants rather than one plaintiff, which changes the method: the model has to be defensible per claimant and administrable at scale.

What we need to start

For the conflict check, party names only.

Once engaged: earnings history — tax returns, W-2s, pay records — plus the medical or vocational opinion on restrictions, the life care plan if one exists, and household composition. Where earnings history is thin or the plaintiff was young, the analysis moves to statistical earnings paths, and we will say so up front rather than at deposition.

Frequently asked questions

Do you need a vocational expert before you can work?

Not always, but the economist quantifies loss; someone has to establish the restriction. Where there is no vocational or medical opinion, we can model alternative scenarios rather than assume one.

How do you handle a plaintiff with no earnings history?

Statistical earnings paths by education, age and region, applied transparently. The assumptions are the argument in these cases, so they are stated where opposing counsel can test them.

Can you work an inventory of claimants?

Yes. Wildfire and mass disaster work is a significant part of our practice, and inventory matters need a model that is consistent across claimants and still defensible for each one.

What are your rates?

We send the rate schedule and a full CV with the proposal after the scoping call.