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