KW Economics provides life care plan costing for matters venued in California. 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 California 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.
California'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 California Division of Workers' Compensation. Final appeals in the California court system run to the Supreme Court of California. California is served by 4 federal district courts, where the same analyses are offered under the federal expert-disclosure framework.
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.
California pairs a wrongful death action for the heirs' economic and companionship losses with a survival action for the estate's own claims, and past medical expenses are measured by the amounts actually paid or owed rather than by the amounts billed. Pure comparative fault reduces the award in proportion, the collateral source rule applies outside medical malpractice, and prejudgment interest in injury cases turns on the statutory offer-to-compromise procedure rather than accruing as of right. Outside the civil courts, wage-loss disputes in workers' compensation matters proceed before the California Division of Workers' Compensation.
Life care plan costing for California 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 California, including the following communities.
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Yes. KW Economics provides life care plan costing for attorneys handling matters venued in California, 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 California 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 California is scheduled case by case: in the California trial courts by the case management or scheduling order, and in the federal district courts serving California 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.
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