Category: Accounting Expert Witness
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Disgorgement Analysis Using Full Absorption Method Admitted
Plaintiff Multiple Energy Technologies, LLC (“MET”) accused Under Armour of false advertising in relation to certain products that contain bioceramic powder. MET contended that Under Armour inaccurately claimed that the Federal Food and Drug Administration had determined that those products enhanced recovery. Under Armour sells activewear and sleepwear products directly to consumers. This includes the…
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Testimony on Damages Admitted Because it Includes Independent Analysis
Plaintiff American Power, LLC (“AMP”) is a trucking-logistics company headquartered in Dayton, Ohio. According to the Complaint, Plaintiff invested in and loaned $450,000 to Defendant Dektrix LLC, a transportation-servicing company headquartered in Utah. The Complaint charges that the investment and loan were fraudulently obtained and ultimately worthless. Plaintiff sought to impose liability upon Dektrix and…
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Testimony Excluded Because He Makes No Effort to Distinguish Lost Profit Damages
It all started when GE and X-Ray contracted for the acquisition, sale and purchase of certain equipment and services required to outfit a nuclear radiopharmaceutical laboratory—the first of its kind in Jamaica. X-Ray later accused GE Entities of breaching their duties of care to X-Ray and breaching various components of the operative agreement– the International…
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Testimony About Damages Calculations is Not Fatally Deficient
The Plaintiffs sought damages and injunctive relief accusing the Defendants of willfully, intentionally, and calculatedly refusing to provide potable water to residents of the Plaintiffs’ manufactured home communities and a denial of applications by the Plaintiffs Grover Dinwiddie, and Sarina Shannon for municipal water utility services provided to other residents of the City of Oak…
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Accounting Expert Witness Reliably Calculates Damages Measure by Reasonable Royalties
This is a trademark infringement case involving the trademarked phrase “Freedom Pop”. Plaintiff Proccor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Proccor”) contended that Defendant GAT Sports infringed upon its alleged trademark for a “Freedom Pop” flavored Pre-Rx pre-workout supplement. GAT Sports essentially argued that the phrase was used in a non-trademark, descriptive, way to describe the flavor of its…
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Court Dismissed Objections With Regard to Untimely Designations of Expert Witnesses
By this suit, Plaintiff Anthony Guernon brought claims of negligence and negligence per se against Defendant Joel Barroso and for vicarious liability against Barroso’s Employer, Stevens Transport, Inc. (“Stevens Transport”), arising out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on May 3, 2021, In El Paso County, Colorado. Following several extensions, the parties were required…
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Approach to Calculating Lost Profits is Accepted in the Relevant Field
Plaintiff Dick’s Sporting Goods, Inc. (“DSG”) filed a lawsuit against Defendants Forbes/Cohen Florida Properties, L.P. (“Forbes”) and The Gardens Venture LLC (“Gardens Venture”) (collectively “Defendants”). DSG claimed that Forbes tortiously interfered with its business and contractual relationships, which involved Sears, Roebuck, and Co. (“Sears”) and Transform Operating Stores LLC (“Transform”), specifically regarding the sublease…
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Proposed Expert Witnesses Barred from Evaluating Psychological and Economic Damages
Domski filed this lawsuit on August 11, 2023, alleging that she was wrongfully terminated from her employment by defendant Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan after she refused to comply with the company’s COVID-19 vaccination policy. Domski worked for Blue Cross Blue Shield from March 10, 2008 until her termination on January 5, 2022, most…
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Opinions on Future Lost Wages Excluded as He Doubly Accounts for Inflation
This case concerns a trip-and-fall accident. Pedero Sanders alleged that, on November 8, 2022, he was employed by Weeks Marine as a Jones Act seaman assigned to the dredge JS Chatry. He claimed that, in the course of his work, he tripped and fell while retrieving supplies from a shack on land. According to Sanders, the supply…
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Accounting Expert Witness’ Testimony is Not Relevant to Any Claim for Damages
Defendants Dahv Kliner and Roger Farrow were former employees of JDS Uniphase, Plaintiff Lumentum’s predecessor. They had signed an “Employee Proprietary Information and Inventions Agreement” with the company which prohibited them from disclosing JDS Uniphase’s proprietary information to anyone outside the company. Kliner and Farrow left JDS Uniphase in 2012 and 2013, respectively, to join…
