The U.S. approach to computing economic damages due to personal injury and wrongful death

Kurt V. Krueger and Gary R. Albrecht

A chapter in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Damages Calculations: Transatlantic Dialogue, 2009, pp 193-231 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This chapter examines the legal and scientific approaches taken in the United States for computing economic damages due to personal injury and wrongful death. The U.S. law of tort damages conforms to a general economic valuation of reduced or lost productivity due to injury under the goal of assigning tort damages optimally so that harm in the society is minimized. Today, “economic damages” are defined in every U.S. jurisdiction, and the field of forensic economics has produced a body of literature concerned with accurately measuring them.

Date: 2009
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110 ... d&utm_campaign=repec (text/html)
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110 ... 3759(2009)0000091011
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.110 ... d&utm_campaign=repec (application/pdf)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eme:csefzz:s1569-3759(2009)0000091011

DOI: 10.1108/S1569-3759(2009)0000091011

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Contemporary Studies in Economic and Financial Analysis from Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Emerald Support ().