KW Economics provides life care plan costing for matters venued in American Samoa. The plan's items, frequencies, durations, and unit costs are carried forward with medical cost growth appropriate to each category, discounted over the applicable life expectancy, and presented item by item so counsel and the trier of fact in American Samoa can follow each line from the plan to its present value. Authorship of the plan stays with its author; the economist's role is the translation of the plan into a damages figure. Plaintiff and defense.
The High Court of American Samoa (Trial Division) 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 American Samoa Workmen's Compensation Commission. Final appeals in the American Samoa court system run to the High Court of American Samoa, Appellate Division.
Reduction of a life care plan's line items to a single present value. The plan's items, frequencies, durations, and unit costs are carried forward with medical cost growth appropriate to each category, then discounted over the applicable life expectancy. Plan authorship stays with the life care planner; our role is the economic translation of the plan into a damages figure that reconciles with the plan and can be examined item by item.
In American Samoa, a wrongful death action for the beneficiaries' pecuniary loss and a survival action for the decedent's own claims are heard by the Trial Division of the High Court, and the small on-island wage market means an earnings history often includes government, cannery, or off-island employment. The rules on fault allocation, collateral-source payments, and prejudgment interest follow the territory's own code and case law, which counsel should confirm for the specific claim. Outside the civil courts, wage-loss disputes in workers' compensation matters proceed before the American Samoa Workmen's Compensation Commission.
Life care plan costing for American Samoa 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 American Samoa, including the following communities.
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Yes. KW Economics provides life care plan costing for attorneys handling matters venued in American Samoa, 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 American Samoa market rather than from national averages.
A complete engagement typically includes a records request tailored to the claim (the life care plan itself, its unit-cost sources, and the life expectancy opinion it rests on), 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 American Samoa is scheduled case by case: in the American Samoa trial courts by the case management or scheduling order, and in the federal district courts serving American Samoa 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 Life Care Plan Costing in American Samoa or call (201) 343-0700. Plaintiff and defense counsel.