KW Economics provides life care plan costing for matters venued in Pennsylvania. 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 Pennsylvania 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.
Pennsylvania's Court of Common Pleas 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 Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers' Compensation. Final appeals in the Pennsylvania court system run to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is served by 3 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.
Pennsylvania keeps the wrongful death and survival actions distinct: the wrongful death claim covers the beneficiaries' lost support, services, and funeral and administration expenses, while the survival claim covers the decedent's pain and suffering and lost earnings for the rest of the projected worklife net of the decedent's personal maintenance, so the economist prepares both a support projection and a net-earnings projection. Recovery is barred once the plaintiff's fault exceeds the combined fault of the defendants, the common-law collateral source rule applies outside medical malpractice, where past medical expenses and lost earnings already paid by certain benefits are not recoverable, and the civil rules add delay damages to bodily injury and death awards. Outside the civil courts, wage-loss disputes in workers' compensation matters proceed before the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers' Compensation.
Life care plan costing for Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania, including the following communities.
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Yes. KW Economics provides life care plan costing for attorneys handling matters venued in Pennsylvania, 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania is scheduled case by case: in the Pennsylvania trial courts by the case management or scheduling order, and in the federal district courts serving Pennsylvania 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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