1/25/2013· Damages
Minimizing the Impact of Medical Equipment Losses
By: Envista Forensics - Andrew Spetter and Mark Ewing
Doctors and nurses need to make quick, educated decisions to minimize the impact of difficult situations. These decisions are based on the practitioner's years of experience, their education, the science and technology available, and with the assistance of critical analytical and diagnostic equipment.
11/26/2012· Damages
Lost Profits Damages to New Businesses: Adjusting for Survival
Survival risk of new businesses is a challenging issue to incorporate into lost profits analyses used in litigation, an issue some financial experts and courts ignore rather than consider explicitly. This paper considers several ways to make qualitative and quantitative adjustments for the survival rates of new businesses.
11/19/2012· Damages
Investigating Equipment Damage Claims in Latin America
By: Envista Forensics - John Hicks
A water pipe breaks in a healthcare provider's facility, saturating an MRI control cabinet. The manufacturer is called in and spends $200,000 on attempted repairs. The unit still doesn't work. The manufacturer says the entire unit needs to be replaced, at a cost of $240,000.
10/25/2012· Damages
Determining the Value of Household Production as a Component of Economic Damages
The forensic financial expert may be familiar with assessing lost profits, earnings capacity, or even valuing a business, but what is the expert to do about damages arising from lost ability to engage in non-market work? In a personal injury, wronful death or similar tort cases, physical limitations may restrict market and non-market work the latter forming the basis for an additional source of damages.
2/16/2011· Economics
Measuring The Loss Of Enjoyment Of Life In Personal Injury Cases In Washington - Hedonic Damages
By: Stan V. Smith
In most courts, the value of a human being is not recognized. According to the laws of many states, your life isn't worth a "plugged nickel" if you no longer work.
9/5/2010· Damages
A Quick Overview of Commercial-Damages Economics
Commercial damages occur in breach-of-contract and business-tort cases that result in claims of lost profits or diminished business goodwill or business value. Intellectual-property-infringement cases and antitrust cases also can involve such loss claims. The measurement of damages in these types of cases follows a basic methodology, with some variations in intellectual-property matters. Measurement of damages in securities-fraud cases uses a different approach.
11/25/2009· Damages
Lost Inventory and Lost Profits Damage Formulas in Litigation
This article arose from an actual litigation. To protect the identity of the parties, I usefictional names.
11/25/2009· Damages
Forecasting Cash Flow: Mathematics of the Payout Ratio
We all have used the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method. Many of us would agree that it is generally the best, most comprehensive, theoretically correct valuation model. It also has an empirical reason to be the best, which is that many of us calculate our discount rates using the Ibbotson data in the SBBI annual yearbooks, which are based on publicly traded stock data.
11/25/2009· Accounting
The Bias in Annual (Versus Monthly) Discounting is Immaterial
This article presents a discussion of the validity of using the mid-year convention from a different point of view than the March 2002 BVR article by Michael Dobner.
by John Salmen, AIA
by John B. Durkee, PhD, PE
by Dave Gerr, CEng, FRINA
