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The worker, a pipe layer who was crushed between an excavator machine and a cement manhole, is permanently disabled. Center economists analyzed damages to the worker at the request of Michael O. Pansini of Philadelphia's Pansini & Mezrow, the worker's attorney. Center economists put the worker's economic damages at more than $3 million. The economic losses include lost future earnings, medical costs and lost services.
A plaintiff's memorandum submitted prior to mediation stated that the case had a value of $15 million to a Philadelphia jury when the value of pain, suffering and loss of life's pleasures were added to the purely economic loss.
The matter, Goodman v. T.H. Properties, reportedly settled after two mediation sessions. An account in the Legal Intelligencer, Philadelphia's legal newspaper, stated that defendant T.H. properties had filed for bankruptcy in the spring of 2009, and the bankruptcy court had placed a $9 million cap on recovery.
Chad L. Staller, J.D., M.B.A., M.A.C., president and senior economist at the Center for Forensic Economic Studies, has been selected to speak at the 2010 Annual Conference of the Council on Litigation Management (CLM). Mr. Staller is slated to speak on the topic “Defending a Damages Claim.”
The 2010 Annual Conference of the Council on
Litigation Management will be one of the largest, fully inclusive
litigation-defense industry conferences in 2010.
It will be held March 24-26 in
The Council is a nonpartisan alliance of thousands of insurance companies, corporations, general counsel, risk managers, claims adjusters and attorneys. Through education and collaboration, its goals are to create a common interest in the representation by firms of companies, and to promote and further the highest standards of litigation management in pursuit of client defense.
Markham Joins Center
James Markham, an economist, attorney and former insurance-claims
professional, has joined the Center as a Senior Economist.
In addition to providing analysis and testimony on damages in
commercial, employment and injury litigation, he will consult on
insurance bad-faith issues.

