| Assessing Damages in Injuries and
Deaths of Minor Children
Thomas R. Ireland and
John O. Ward
6" x 9", softbound, 414 pages
2002, Lawyers and Judges
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Contributing authors: Anne
Walker, Hugh Richards, Sumner J. Lacroix, Linda G. Martin, William
E. Hardy, Lawrence M. Spizman, John Kane, Andrew M. Gill, Jack
Foley, Christopher A. Jepsen, Lisa K. Jepsen, Mark Lino, Ralph
J. Brown, R. Mark Rogers and Donald J. Bieniewicz
Table of Contents
When you have a case that deals with the sad
event of a death of a child, how do you determine how much the
amount of damages should be? What statistics do you use, and how
do you arrive at the final amount? Assessing Damages in Injuries
and Deaths of Minor Children's primary focus is to consider a
wide range of topics that relate to how to assess damages or provide
testimony in cases involving injuries or deaths of minor children.
Written with the forensic economic expert or attorneys specifically
concerned with damages in mind, this book goes in depth on every
approach to assessing damages in these cases.
You will learn how to assess damages using the parental investment
approach, how to determine a child's future earning capacity by
taking into account the educational outcomes of the parents, and
other ways to project a child's future earning capacity. You will
read about the issues of wrongful birth and wrongful pregnancy.
You will also find out by using the Child Support Guidelines how
child support paid after a divorce can be factored into a damages
assessment.
Read about damages standards in various types of litigation involving
personal injuries and wrongful deaths of children. Be introduced
to a variety of methodologies for projecting the lost earnings
of a minor child, including the future financial support a decedent
child might have provided to parents. Learn about the fundamental
damages problem in the death of a minor child, which is that parents
have losses of enormous value which they would have been willing
to expend almost all financial resources to prevent, but standards
for financial damages recovery tend to be very small.
Topics covered:
Predicting educational attainment
Parental effects on a child's educational attainment
Parental influence on a child's future earnings
Damages in wrongful pregnancy tort actions
Damages in wrongful birth litigation
Future economic contributions of a female child
Using national opinion research data
The parental investment approach
U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates
Saving rate estimates for single persons by income, age and sex
Applying Cost Share Child Support Guidelines
Using the Expenditures on Children report
Related books:
Assessment
of Earning Capacity
Bicycle
Accidents: Biomechanical,
Engineering, and Legal Aspects
Children and Injuries
Emotional Distress: Proving Damages
Medical
Legal Aspects of Pain and Suffering
Pedestrian Accident Reconstruction and Litigation
Structured
Settlements and Periodic Payment Judgments
Valuing Economic Damages in Personal Injury
and Wrongful Death Actions
Table
of Contents
Detailed
table of contents
Reading 1: Introduction
Reading 2: Evaluating Child
Loss in Child Injuries and Fatalities: Roles of an Economic
Expert
Reading 3: Projecting the Lost
Future Economic Contributions of a Female Child: Refining
Income Data to Reflect True Losses
Reading 4: A Refinement in
Earnings of Never-Married Females
Reading 5: Damages in Wrongful
Pregancy Tort Actions
Reading 6: Recent Appellate
and Supreme Court Decisions Dealing with the Recovery of
Damages in Wrongful Birth Litigation
Reading 7: Use of National
Opinion Research Center Data when Estimating Lost Earning
Capacity of an Injured Child
Reading 8: Loss of Future
Income in the Case of Personal Injury to a Child: Parental
Influence on a Child's Future Earnings
Reading 9: Predicting Educational
Attainment for a Minor Child: Some Further Evidence
Reading 10: An Update of the
Educational Attainment Model for a Minor Child
Reading 11: Re-examining the
Effects of Parental Characteristics on Educational Attainment
for a Minor Child
Reading 12: The Investment
Approach to Parental Loss in the Death of a Child: A Guide
to Understanding Alternative Versions
Reading 13: The Gallimore Case:
Applications to Personal Injuries of Children
Reading 14: USDA Data on Costs
of Raising a Child
Reading 15: USDA's Expenditures
on Children by Families Project: Uses and Changes over Time
Reading 16: A Short Guide
for Using the Expenditures on Children Report to Prepare
a Parental Investment Analysis
Reading 17: The Traditional
Model for Parental Loss in the Death of a Child
Reading 18: Saving Rate Estimates
for Single Persons by Income, Age and Sex
Reading 19: Lost Accumulations
to an Estate in a Child Death Case
Reading 20: Child Cost Economics
and Litigation Issues: An Introduction to Applying Cost
Shares Child Support Guidelines
Reading 21: Expenditures on
Children by Families: U.S. Department of Agriculture Estimates
and Alternative Estimators
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