KW Economics provides household services analysis for matters venued in Massachusetts. The hours the injured or deceased person devoted to meal preparation, cleaning, home and vehicle maintenance, shopping, and the care of others are drawn from national time-use data adjusted to the household's own composition and routine, priced at the wage a replacement worker earns for each task in the area of Massachusetts where the household lives, carried over the relevant life or worklife expectancy, and discounted to present value. Plaintiff and defense.
Massachusetts's Superior Court is the primary trial-level forum for the personal injury, wrongful death, employment, and commercial damages claims these analyses support. Workers' compensation claims, where the dispute is over wage-loss benefits rather than tort damages, are administered by the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents. Final appeals in the Massachusetts court system run to the Supreme Judicial Court. Massachusetts is served by 1 federal district court, where the same analyses are offered under the federal expert-disclosure framework.
Replacement-cost valuation of the household production an injured or deceased person can no longer provide: meal preparation, cleaning, home and vehicle maintenance, shopping, child care, and care of other household members. The hours are drawn from national time-use data adjusted to the person's household composition and pre-injury role, and each category is priced at the local wage for the occupation that would replace it, then projected and discounted over the period of loss.
Massachusetts measures wrongful death by the fair monetary value of the decedent to the beneficiaries, including lost income, services, protection, care, assistance, society, and companionship, and permits punitive damages for gross negligence, with the decedent's own conscious suffering recovered by the estate. Recovery is barred once the plaintiff's fault exceeds the combined fault of the defendants, the common-law collateral source rule applies outside medical malpractice, and prejudgment interest on tort awards runs from the commencement of the action. Outside the civil courts, wage-loss disputes in workers' compensation matters proceed before the Massachusetts Department of Industrial Accidents.
Household services analysis for Massachusetts matters is directed by Christopher Skerritt, M.Ed., MBA, Chief of Economic Services, who is available to testify to it.
Our experts serve clients throughout Massachusetts, including the following communities.
KW Economics offers complementary services to support your Massachusetts cases.
Yes. KW Economics provides household services analysis for attorneys handling matters venued in Massachusetts, for plaintiff and defense counsel, with the analysis sized to the engagement scope and built from the records that drive the claim and from data for the Massachusetts market rather than from national averages.
A complete engagement typically includes a records request tailored to the claim (the household's composition, the person's pre-injury routine, and any records of paid help), a review of the record and the pleadings, a written statement of assumptions, a report that presents each loss component and its present value, review and rebuttal of any opposing report, and deposition and trial testimony when required. Scope and turnaround are calibrated to the case posture and the governing disclosure framework.
Expert disclosure in Massachusetts is scheduled case by case: in the Massachusetts trial courts by the case management or scheduling order, and in the federal district courts serving Massachusetts by the federal expert-disclosure framework, under which the written report, the materials considered, and the testimony history are served together. KW Economics confirms the disclosure date at retention and sizes the records request and turnaround to it; counsel confirms the governing deadline for the case.
Request a consultation on Household Services in Massachusetts or call (201) 343-0700. Plaintiff and defense counsel.