Economic Analysis in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases
Economic Analysis in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases
On this Video Dr. George Jouganatos. PhD will cover the appropriate benefits to include in loss calculations (including Social Security as a loss in your case is generally not supported by federal and California case law or by forensic economics literature) as well as the discount rates, wage growth rate, earnings basis, impaired earnings capacity, present value calculations, mitigation considerations, methods of computing loss of benefits, pensions, collateral source rules, undocumented workers, medical costs, Sanchez and other case law, among other issues.
Please note each video is designed for continuous viewing until its conclusion. The viewing of this online video meets the criteria for “participatory” continuing legal education credit as verified by the Sacramento County Public Law Library, an approved State Bar of California MCLE provider according to the State Bar of California MCLE Rules & Requirements [Rule 2.72].
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