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Cara Brown, MA & Herb Emery, PhD have published their working paper on the 2001 PALS results in the Journal of Legal Economics. Click to receive a copy.

Brown Economic Consulting released a topic index of their newsletter issues. Click here to search the index for back issues that may be of interest to you.

Brown Economic Consulting was profiled in the Calgary Herald on March 22, 2010.

Upcoming workshops and conferences at which Ms. Brown will be exhibiting or presenting:

Ms. Brown has been invited to speak at the Atlantic Provinces Trial Lawyers' Association (APTLA) conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia on November 19, 2010. Under the topic heading "Advanced Damages: Best Practices for Proving Economic Loss", Ms. Brown will speak about diminished earning capacity; loss of valuable services; loss of interdependent relationships; and financial losses in fatality claims.

A judgment released from St. John's, Newfoundland on July 6, 2009, filed as Courtney v. Cleary, accepted our Atlantic expert's testimony (Dr. Frank Strain) with regard to income loss and fringe benefits losses for a pipefitter who had planned to relocate to Fort McMurray, AB to work had an accident not occurred. The total damages awarded were calculated by Brown Economic from the judgment to be $920,939. Click here for excerpts from this judgment.

A judgment released by Justice Rooke on Feb. 6, 2009, filed as Russell v. Turcott, 2009 ABQB 19, accepted the majority of Ms. Brown's evidence on loss of income and housekeeping and cost of care (the cost of care award was calculated by Ms. Brown after the judgment was released based on Rooke, J.'s stated assumptions in paras. [320] to [361]). The total pecuniary award to Mrs. Russell (excluding special damages of $16,600) was $434,800. Click here for excerpts from this judgment.

Note to users of long-form economic reports:
Court appearances require a complete report and inclusion of all relevant research. Experts cannot suddenly add this information should the case proceed to trial. Moreover, experts are prohibited from straying outside their report while testifying¹.

As a result, "court-ready" assessments are traditionally lengthy. In response to feedback from counsel, we have shortened our "court-ready" reports while still including the economic descriptions and research required at trial. This new format results in far fewer pages of text.

Interested and prospective users can inquire for a sample report. Click to request our new formatted sample.

[1] The Honourable Madam Justice Michelle G. Crighton, John E. Olsen and Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Province of Alberta Plaintiffs and Dr. A. Campbell-Jones Defendant, Trial transcript Court of Queen's Bench Edmonton, Alberta, Volume 14, p. 2683.

The Income Damages Calculator (IDC) has updated its industry statistics under the DATA sections in the screens, using salary and labour force data from the 2006 Census. Previously, the salary data was from the 2001 Census. The salary data and labour force statistics are not publicly available from Statistics Canada - we have purchased a special tabulation for the IDC and our assessments so that the data can be tailored to the claimant as specifically as possible.

A recent judgment released in Edmonton, filed as Mahe v. Boulianne, accepted Ms. Brown's testimony with regard to the 1991 HALS/2001 PALS approach and findings to calculate Mr. Mahe's future loss of income. Click here for excerpts from this judgment.