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News & Updates

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

• Brown Economic is sponsoring the Canadian Bar Association's 2010 Alberta Law Conference in Calgary on January 28 & 29, 2010 at the Westin hotel. Ms. Brown and other staff will be hosting an exhibit booth to answer inquiries or questions about potential cases.
• Cara Brown has been invited to participate in a pre-conference workshop in Calgary on March 24, 2010 at the Telus Centre at INSIGHT INFORMATION's seminar called Litigating Traumatic Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Cases. This workshop will explore what type of expert is needed in such cases, determining expert credibility, reconciling discrepancies in experts' reports, and how best to assist and prepare experts for pre-trial discoveries and at trial.
• Cara Brown has been invited to speak at the Canadian Defense Lawyers' (CDL) conference in Halifax on March 30, 2010. Ms. Brown has been asked to host a live demonstration of the Income Damages Calculator^TM.
• Cara Brown has been invited to speak in Toronto in April, 2010 at The Canadian Institute’s 9th National Summit on Institutional Liability for Sexual Assault and Abuse: "Overcoming Key Hurdles in Bringing and Defending Child Sexual Assault and Abuse Claims"
  
  The brochure to register for this Canadian Institute conference is available by clicking here.  Delegates who register as a referral from Brown Economic's website can quote priority service code 416L10.S to receive a 15% discount.
  
  Ms. Brown's speaking engagement on April 8, 2010 in Toronto will involve presenting a formal paper and power point slides. Ms. Brown will also be presenting a live demonstration of the Income Damages Calculator^TM using case examples from actual multi-plaintiff litigation.

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.

[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.