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How the number is built: worklife, discount rates, mitigation, and the workings of the damages model.
6 articles in this category.
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April 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Discount rates for long-horizon loss periods: why a single blended figure invites cross
A thirty-year front-pay calculation discounted at a single blended rate is the easiest target a defense expert has. The Treasury yield curve already contains the answer. The model should use it.
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March 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Worklife expectancy and the C-suite: why standard tables understate executive loss
The Skoog-Ciecka-Krueger tables are the right starting point for most employment damages. For executives, they are not the ending point. A note on when the standard model should be extended and how.
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January 18, 2026 · 2 min read
Equity compensation in damages: grant-date value versus realized value
Restricted stock units, options, and performance share units sit at the center of executive damages exposure. The choice between grant-date value and realized value is not cosmetic. It changes the number, and it changes what survives cross-examination.
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August 15, 2025 · 3 min read
Mitigation in employment damages: actual earnings, imputed earnings, and the middle ground
The duty to mitigate sets a ceiling on damages. How the economic expert treats actual earnings, imputed earnings, and the evidentiary record between them is frequently what moves the final number.
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July 28, 2025 · 2 min read
Lost household and non-market services: when this component belongs in an employment model
Household and non-market services are foundational in wrongful death and personal injury matters. In employment litigation they appear only when a specific factual predicate is met. Knowing the line matters more than knowing the methodology.
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June 12, 2025 · 3 min read
Past lost earnings: the mechanics of back pay
Back pay is named simply and built carefully. The loss period, compensation inputs, interim earnings, and jurisdiction-specific adjustments each determine a defensible number.