Inside is a wealth of information on many important topics on understanding economic damages and using them to your benefit, whether you are the plaintiff or defense attorney. It covers estimation of wage and salary loss, fringe benefit loss, household services loss, estimating losses for adults and children, and understanding and retaining economic damage experts.

You’ll also read about the roles of life care planners and vocational/rehabilitation experts and how they help determine economic damages. Special cases and issues—such as punitive damages, F.E.L.A. cases involving injured railroad workers, international issues, gender, age, ethnic background, and more—are covered in great depth. You’ll also learn how to achieve a successful result in mediation and trial situations, on both the plaintiff and defense side. Structured settlements, and their advantages and disadvantages, are extensively covered.

The accompanying CD-ROM includes Internet sources with additional information, definitions of technical terminology, direct and cross-examination questions and answers, case studies, links to damage calculation sites, and more.

Topics Include:

• Understanding economic damage experts
• Daubert considerations
• Plaintiff attorney's considerations and perspectives
• Defense attorney's considerations and perspectives
• Estimating lost earnings
• Valuing fringe benefits
• Household service losses
• Vocational/Rehabilitation experts
• Life care planners
• Medical care costs
• Personal injury
• Wrongful death
• Effects of age, gender, and ethnic background
• Punitive Damages
• F.E.L.A. issues
• International issues
• Mediation and trial practice
• Structured Settlements