KW Economics provides lost earnings analysis for matters venued in Pennsylvania. The projection starts from the plaintiff's own earnings history, tests it against occupational wage data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the metropolitan or nonmetropolitan area of Pennsylvania where the plaintiff worked, carries it over a documented worklife expectancy with wage growth, and discounts it to present value. Fringe benefits are valued from the employer's plan documents or from published employer-cost data, and any post-injury earning capacity is offset against the but-for path rather than assumed away. 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.
Past and future lost earnings and fringe benefits for a person whose injury has removed them from work or reduced what they can earn. The analysis builds from the earnings history, projects the but-for path over the person's expected worklife with wage growth, and discounts the future stream to present value. When the person can still work in a reduced capacity, the loss is framed as diminished earning capacity, with the post-injury path drawn from a vocational opinion or the treating record and offset against the but-for projection.
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.
Lost earnings analysis for Pennsylvania matters is directed by Christopher Skerritt, M.Ed., MBA, Chief of Economic Services, who is available to testify to it.
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Yes. KW Economics provides lost earnings analysis 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 (tax returns, wage statements, personnel and benefit plan records, and the medical or work-capacity opinions that define the post-injury earnings path), 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.
Request a consultation on Lost Earnings in Pennsylvania or call (201) 343-0700. Plaintiff and defense counsel.