KW Economics provides life care plan costing for cases venued in West Des Moines, Iowa. For a plan prepared for a claimant in West Des Moines, each item is priced as the plan states it, grown at the medical cost index appropriate to its category, and discounted over the applicable life expectancy, with any West Des Moines-area adjustment to a unit cost stated and sourced. Civil claims arising in West Des Moines are typically heard in the District Court sitting in Polk County. Deposition and trial testimony are available for West Des Moines matters, in person or by remote appearance where the forum allows.
West Des Moines sits in the Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA metropolitan area, and where an analysis calls for local economic data, the figures for that area, rather than a statewide average, are the ones used. Plaintiff and defense.
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.
KW Economics serves counsel throughout West Des Moines and the surrounding Polk County area. Our economists carry each item of the life care plan forward at the medical cost growth appropriate to its category, discount it over the applicable life expectancy, and state and source any West Des Moines-area adjustment to a unit cost, and are familiar with the court system and disclosure requirements that affect life care plan costing engagements in Iowa.
Life care plan costing for West Des Moines matters is directed by Christopher Skerritt, M.Ed., MBA, Chief of Economic Services, who is available to testify to it.
KW Economics offers complementary economic damages services for West Des Moines cases.
We also provide life care plan costing in these Iowa communities.
Yes. KW Economics provides life care plan costing for attorneys handling matters venued in West Des Moines, Iowa, for plaintiff and defense counsel across the case mix common to West Des Moines matters.
Earnings and household services are measured against the plaintiff's own records and against wage data for the West Des Moines area, with data for Iowa as a whole used only where a local figure is unavailable and only with the substitution stated. The source behind every figure is documented so the loss can be traced and defended.
KW Economics provides full economic damages reports, preliminary damages estimates for settlement evaluation, reviews and rebuttals of opposing economic reports, and deposition and trial testimony, sized to both trial-track and settlement matters. The appropriate deliverable depends on case posture.
Request a consultation on Life Care Plan Costing in West Des Moines or call (201) 343-0700. Plaintiff and defense counsel.