Personal injury and wrongful death damages calculations : transatlantic dialogue /

The volume focuses on litigation damages, economic and non-economic, including punitive damages; their definitions, calculations, and assignments in the US and EU. The objective is to examine areas of convergence and divergence in the academic and practical treatment of damages issues in the US and...

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Other Authors: Ward, John O., Thornton, Robert J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, c2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Contemporary studies in economic and financial analysis ; v. 91.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • The transatlantic dialogue: An introduction / John O. Ward, Robert J. Thornton
  • Estimating and using work life expectancy in the United Kingdom / Zoltan Butt, Steven Haberman, Richard Verrall, Victoria Wass
  • The development of an actuarial approach to the calculation of future loss in the UK / Matthias Kelly
  • Markov work life table research in the United States / Gary R. Skoog, James E. Ciecka
  • Periodical payments awards and the transfer of risk / Richard Cropper, Victoria Wass
  • The U.S. approach to computing economic damages due to personal injury and wrongful death / Kurt V. Krueger, Gary R. Albrecht
  • Principles of compensation for injury and wrongful death in Ireland / Shane Whelan
  • Doing away with inequality in loss of enjoyment of life / Giovanni Comandé
  • Scheduled damages and the American tort environment / Steven J. Shapiro, A.E. Rodriguez
  • Examples of schedules of damages used in Europe and the United States / Robert Minnehan
  • International data and the forensic economist: A guide to sources and uses / Michael J. Piette, David R. Williams
  • Economic damages and tort reform: A comparative analysis of the calculation of economic damages in personal injury and death litigation in the United States and the United Kingdom / John O. Ward
  • Accounting for the effects of disablement on future employment in Britain / Victoria Wass, Robert McNabb.