Exploring Medicare in the context of Audish v. Macias (2024)

Practical tips on challenging and overcoming Audish v. Macias, based on a recent case tried to verdict in Orange County

Greyson Goody

From Issue: 2025 January

When wage loss doesn’t seem to add up

Bad injury, bad documentation: Putting together the wage loss picture

Maryanne B. Cooper

From Issue: 2019 April

“Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated”

Despite efforts to redefine the reasonable value of medical care, plaintiff still has a right to full and fair compensation for future medical damages

Elinor Leary

From Issue: 2015 December

Wrongful death: Don’t let your economist damage your damages argument

Even if present cash value calculations make your eyes glaze over, you need to understand the logic behind what you will present to a jury

Nathaniel Leeds

From Issue: 2015 October

Wage loss vs earning capacity: Defining the differences

The difference can be confusing, but it is essential to explain this basic concept – wage loss vs earning capacity – to the mediator or jury

Phillip Sidlow
Enrique Vega

From Issue: 2010 September

The double whammy in calculating loss of earning capacity

Reduced earnings and reduced employment rates are a double whammy in calculating loss of future earning capacity for an injured person with permanent limitations

Joseph T. Crouse

From Issue: 2016 October

Developing the case for large economic damages

A look at the strategies and recent case law useful to maximize economic damages at trial

Olivier Taillieu

From Issue: 2019 June

Disability and the replacement value of household services

How economists calculate the replacement cost of household services in cases of catastrophic injury

Joseph T. Crouse

From Issue: 2017 April

Audish: the new Medicare dilemma for jurors valuing future medical costs

California appellate court misapplied existing case law and ignored the existence of the federal statute on Medicare

Mike Kelly
Noah Epstein

From Issue: 2025 January

Wage war

Identifying and proving wage loss without a W-2

Miles B. Cooper

From Issue: 2018 September

The effect of disability on earnings and worklife expectancy

Lower levels of employment and reduction in earnings are two issues affecting the worklife expectancy of the disabled

Phillip Sidlow
Enrique Vega

From Issue: 2010 October

The cost of future medical care and Cuevas

A look at the methodologies of calculating future medical costs since the Cuevas decision

Eustace de Saint Phalle
Andrew Clay

From Issue: 2018 December