KW Economics provides life care plan costing for cases venued in New Orleans, Louisiana. For a plan prepared for a claimant in New Orleans, 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 New Orleans-area adjustment to a unit cost stated and sourced. Civil claims arising in New Orleans are typically heard in the District Court sitting in Orleans Parish. Deposition and trial testimony are available for New Orleans matters, in person or by remote appearance where the forum allows.
New Orleans sits in the New Orleans-Metairie, LA 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 New Orleans and the surrounding Orleans Parish 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 New Orleans-area adjustment to a unit cost, and are familiar with the court system and disclosure requirements that affect life care plan costing engagements in Louisiana.
Life care plan costing for New Orleans 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 New Orleans cases.
We also provide life care plan costing in these Louisiana communities.
Yes. KW Economics provides life care plan costing for attorneys handling matters venued in New Orleans, Louisiana, for plaintiff and defense counsel across the case mix common to New Orleans matters.
Earnings and household services are measured against the plaintiff's own records and against wage data for the New Orleans area, with data for Louisiana 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 New Orleans or call (201) 343-0700. Plaintiff and defense counsel.