KW Economics prepares rebuttal analysis for employment discrimination cases venued in South Carolina: what the loss claim consists of, the records that drive it, and a present value built to South Carolina damages rules and venues. Plaintiff and defense.
An employment discrimination damages report is tested on the but-for compensation path and on mitigation: whether raises, bonuses, and benefit accruals were projected from the employer's actual practices or assumed, whether interim earnings were netted from the records, whether the front pay period is supported by the employee's occupation and local market, and whether comparators in a pay-disparity claim were applied as counsel identified them. The economist quantifies the effect of each correction and shows the loss under alternative front pay durations and mitigation assumptions.
Critique of an opposing economic damages, valuation, or forensic accounting report for plaintiff or defense counsel. The review tests the assumptions, data sources, discount rates, worklife and life expectancy inputs, growth rates, mitigation treatment, and arithmetic behind the opposing number, identifies the errors that matter, and quantifies how the conclusion changes when they are corrected. The result supports cross-examination, a rebuttal report, or a motion directed at the reliability of the opinion.
Back pay is usually the most documented component and the least contested; the disputes concentrate on front pay duration and mitigation. How long it will take the employee to reach comparable compensation, whether the replacement job counts as comparable, and whether the job search was reasonable each change the total substantially. Lost equity, bonus, and pension accruals can exceed base pay losses for senior employees, and the pay-disparity component in an unequal pay claim depends on which comparators are used and over what period.
South Carolina courts ask whether the economist is qualified by training and experience, whether the opinion rests on a reliable basis, and whether it will assist the fact finder, under a reliability inquiry of the state's own that does not adopt the federal test. An economic damages report meets that inquiry by showing the published basis for each assumption and its application to the record.
Highest court: Supreme Court of South Carolina. Court system: sccourts.org.
Federal venues: District of South Carolina.
South Carolina reduces a negligence-based award by the plaintiff's share of fault and bars recovery once that share exceeds the combined fault of the defendants. Prejudgment interest is generally limited to liquidated sums, such as an unpaid contract balance, and not awarded on unliquidated damages. Statutory limits apply to noneconomic damages in medical malpractice claims while economic damages are unlimited, so the economist's figure enters the case at its full present value, with the liquidated components identified separately.
We issue a rebuttal report where one is disclosed and provide deposition and trial testimony, cross-examination outlines, and support for motions directed at the opinion.
An employment discrimination damages report is tested on the but-for compensation path and on mitigation: whether raises, bonuses, and benefit accruals were projected from the employer's actual practices or assumed, whether interim earnings were netted from the records, whether the front pay period is supported by the employee's occupation and local market, and whether comparators in a pay-disparity claim were applied as counsel identified them. The economist quantifies the effect of each correction and shows the loss under alternative front pay durations and mitigation assumptions.
South Carolina courts ask whether the economist is qualified by training and experience, whether the opinion rests on a reliable basis, and whether it will assist the fact finder, under a reliability inquiry of the state's own that does not adopt the federal test. An economic damages report meets that inquiry by showing the published basis for each assumption and its application to the record. Employment Discrimination cases venued in South Carolina are heard in the Circuit Court (General jurisdiction; larger civil cases, felonies; two divisions, Common Pleas for civil and General Sessions for criminal matters), with final appeals to the Supreme Court of South Carolina. Matters within federal jurisdiction proceed in the District of South Carolina.
South Carolina reduces a negligence-based award by the plaintiff's share of fault and bars recovery once that share exceeds the combined fault of the defendants. Prejudgment interest is generally limited to liquidated sums, such as an unpaid contract balance, and not awarded on unliquidated damages. Statutory limits apply to noneconomic damages in medical malpractice claims while economic damages are unlimited, so the economist's figure enters the case at its full present value, with the liquidated components identified separately. The report presents past and future amounts separately, states every rate and table with its source, and shows the result under the alternatives the other side is likely to argue, so counsel can apply the South Carolina rules to a documented figure.
Request a consultation on Rebuttal or call (201) 343-0700. Plaintiff and defense counsel.