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News & Updates

• Calculators
• Conferences
• Current projects & Ongoing research

Calculators

Brown Economic launched the Income Damages Calculator^TM ("IDC") in May, 2007. The calculator computes past and future income loss claims for a fee per case. For jurisdictions where income tax and collateral benefits must be deducted (BC, Alberta after 2004, Saskatchewan, Ontario and New Brunswick), the IDC is able to calculate taxes based on information supplied by Deloitte & Touche LLP [Calgary] and credits selected by the user. Past losses include pre-judgment interest, and future losses are discounted to present value. Default data are supplied for all economic assumptions. For salary information, the user can input his/her own estimate for the claimant’s salary, or draw from Brown Economic’s extensive database of salaries by occupation & education. The IDC produces estimates that will refine counsel’s own attempt at calculating losses, and substitute, at a lower price, for expert reports that simply "run numbers". A PDF report is provided and an on-line receipt is emailed directly to the user.

Conferences

• Cara Brown has been invited to present at the Canadian Institute's 8th National Summit on Institutional Liability for Assault & Abuse in Toronto on April 1, 2008.
• Cara Brown has been invited to present at the Canadian Institute's Motor Vehicle Accident Litigation conference in Calgary on January 28-29, 2008.
• Cara Brown presented at the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) conference in Seattle in June/July 2007 at a session for the National Association of Forensic Economists (NAFE). Her topic was "Assessing disability losses: using Canada's HALS & PALS databases to estimate wage deficits."
  Ms. Brown also participated in a panel on time use data for valuing household services, comparing Canadian and American data, at the NAFE session during the WEAI conference in Seattle, WA.
• Brown Economic hosted an exhibit booth at the Trial Lawyers Association of BC's conference "David Ball on Damages CLE" on May 11, 2007 at the Fairmont Waterfront hotel in Vancouver, BC
• Brown Economic hosted an exhibit booth at Alberta’s Law Conference on March 15-16, 2007 at the Hotel Macdonald in Edmonton, AB.
• Brown Economic hosted an exhibit booth at ACTLA's "Expert Witness" seminar on March 19, 2007 at the Palliser hotel in Calgary, Alberta.

For listings of past conferences, click here.

Current projects & Ongoing research

• Brown Economic recently finished a post-farm traceability study comparing several regions (US, Ireland, Norway, Japan, Hong Kong) for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). Dr. Yiridoe was the project leader, who assembled a team of researchers: Dr. Stephen Clark, Dr. Tomas Hladik, Dr. Marthin Nanere, and Petr Prochazka, MSc. Research staff at Brown Economic provided background assistance.
• Brown Economic has liaised with Watson Wyatt to purchase a custom tabulation from their COMPARISON TM database to estimate the percentage of employer’s cost for non-wage fringe benefits across Canada in 2005, for various industries.
• Brown Economic has purchased Statistics Canada’s 2005 General Social Survey (cycle 19) on time use (housekeeping). Data from this public-use microdata file (PUMF) has been published in The Economics Editor (Vol. 3, issue 9).
• Brown Economic has purchased Statistics Canada’s 2002 General Social Survey (cycle 16) on retirement ages. Data from this public-use microdata file (PUMF) has been published in The Economics Editor Part I, Part II, and Part III (Vol. 3, issues 5, 6, and 7) and in chapter 4 of Damages.