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Title

Personal injury and wrongful death damages calculations : transatlantic dialogue / edited by John O. Ward, Robert J. Thornton.

Publication

Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• Ward, John O.
• Thornton, Robert J. (Robert James), 1943-
• Thornton, Robert J.

Description

vi, 327 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary studies in economic and financial analysis ; v. 91

Uniform Title

Contemporary studies in economic and financial analysis v. 91.

Subject

• Personal injuries > Great Britain
• Personal injuries > United States
• Personal injuries > Europe
• Wrongful death > Great Britain
• Wrongful death > United States
• Wrongful death > Europe
• Damages > Great Britain
• Damages > United States
• Damages > Europe
• Forensic economics > Great Britain
• Forensic economics > United States
• Forensic economics > Europe
• Personal injuries
• Wrongful death
• Damages

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The transatlantic dialogue : an introduction / John O. Ward and Robert J. Thornton -- The development of an actuarial approach to the calculation of future loss in the UK / Matthias Kelly -- Economic damages and tort reform : a comparative analysis of the calculation of economic damages in personal injury and death litigation in the United States and the United Kingdom / John O. Ward -- Accounting for the effects of disablement on future employment in Britain / Victoria Wass and Robert McNabb -- Estimating and using work life expectancy in the United Kingdom / Zoltan Butt ... [et al.] -- Markov work life table research in the United States / Gary R. Skoog and James E. Ciecka -- Periodical payments awards and the transfer of risk / Richard Cropper and Victoria Wass -- The U.S. approach to computing economic damages due to personal injury and wrongful death / Kurt V. Krueger and Gary R. Albrecht -- Principles of compensation for injury and wrongful death in Ireland / Shane Wheelan -- Doing away with inequality in loss of enjoyment of life / Giovanni Comandé -- Scheduled damages and the American tort environment / Steven J. Shapiro and A. E. Rodriguez -- Examples of "schedules of damages" used in Europe and the United States / Robert Minnehan -- International data and the forensic economist : a guide to sources and uses / Michael J. Piette and David R. Williams.

ISBN

• 9781848553026
• 1848553021

OCLC

• 465056242
• SCSB-10480007

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Harvard Library