Measuring Loss in Catastrophic Injury Cases

The measurement of loss in catastrophic injury cases is an interdisciplinary effort involving the participation of many specialists including economists, rehabilitation counselors and therapists, health care providers, life care planners, attorneys, and others, including the patient and his or her family. You will learn about the interdisciplinary nature of measuring loss, the role of the forensic economist in determining loss, working with life care planners and rehabilitation and vocational experts, impact of a reduced life expectancy, types of settlements including annuities, structured settlements and periodic payment judgments, and suggestions for building an expert damages team when working on this type of case. In this book, you'll find the information necessary to assess and derive a fair and accurate measurement that will, as fairly as possible, compensate the injured party and/or his or her family for his or her actual losses.Wolfson, Aaron M. is the author of 'Measuring Loss in Catastrophic Injury Cases ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781933264127 and ISBN 1933264128.