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Research Topics
* Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Damages
Dr. Brookshire published in 1987 the first book written by an economist on this topic Economic Damages: the Handbook for Plaintiff and Defense Attorneys. A follow-up book for trial attorneys and damages experts was published in 1990. In Spring 2007, Dr........more
Commercial Damages
An updated and revised Chapter 22 of Commercial Damages (New York: Matthew Bender) was published in 2007: "Measuring Lost Profits Damages" by Drs. Pat Gaughan and Michael Brookshire. Dr. Brookshire has co-authored this chapter since Commercial Damages f.......more
Future Medical Costs
Mr. Barrett expanded the research on the economic aspects of future medical care damages relating to personal maintenance expenditure deductions from residential facility care costs. This research was first presented at the annual conference of the South.......more
Maintenance/Consumption Deductions in Wrongful Death Cases
In the 2007 book tri-edited by Dr. Brookshire, a Brookshire and Gunderson chapter explored some substantial differences among forensic economists in how consumption deductions are calculated in various states. Drs. Brookshire and Slesnick extended these .......more
Medical Monitoring
Expanding on their many publications about medical cost damages, in 1999 Dr. Brookshire and Mr. Barrett began investigating the methodologies and techniques appropriate for the calculation of anticipated medical screening costs. As a result of working on.......more
National Forensic Practice Surveys
These surveys have been conducted by Drs. Brookshire and Slesnick (and later Luthy) since 1989. The surveys are conducted every 3 years and published in a journal of the National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE). No other source provides informat.......more
Punitive Damages
Dr. Brookshire developed a model in 2003 for helping triers of fact assess the appropriate amount of punitive damages. The model was first discussed in a paper at the American Economic Association meetings in 2004, first published in the Journal of Le.......more
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