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Personal injury economic damages
Depending on the case, past and future lost earnings, loss of earning capacity and household services, reduced to present value.
Personal injury →Services · Serving Texas
Economic damages analysis for Texas personal injury and wrongful death cases
Meridian Economics provides written economic damages reports and expert testimony, and is available to plaintiff and defense counsel. Engagements typically start with a short call about your case and the damages questions it raises.
What Meridian does
Four services, one methodology
Analyses are built from the case record and published data, with the key assumptions stated so the opposing expert and the jury can follow them.
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Wrongful death economic damages
Depending on the case, the financial support and household services the statutory beneficiaries lost.
Wrongful death →03
Life care plan valuation
The items in a life care plan costed over the plaintiff’s life expectancy, grown at medical cost rates and reduced to present value.
Life care plans →04
Report review and rebuttal
A review of an opposing economist’s report or life care plan, which can cover its assumptions, data, arithmetic and use of Texas rules.
Review and rebuttal →The approach
Written to be followed and checked
Stated assumptions
Key assumptions, such as work life, earnings base, growth and discount rates, are stated along with the reasoning behind them.
Texas rules in mind
Analyses are prepared with Texas-specific rules in mind, such as how taxes and medical expenses are handled.
Plaintiff or defense
The same methodology for both sides
Meridian is available to plaintiff and defense counsel. The numbers come out of the method, not the side that called.
- Testifying reportsA written report for expert designation, and deposition or trial testimony if the case calls for it.
- Consulting-only workA confidential look at the numbers before you decide whether to designate an economist.
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