Tag: Economic Damages
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Vocational Rehabilitation Expert Not Allowed to Opine on Business Income Loss
Plaintiff John Thomas McReynolds, Jr. asserted claims for breach of contract and bad-faith delay arising from Defendant’s handling of a claim for underinsured motorist benefits under a Group Personal Excess Liability Policy issued by Vault. Defendant Vault E&S Insurance Company filed a motion to exclude the testimony of Plaintiff’s vocational expert, Allison Shipp Berry. Vocational…
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Valuation Expert Allowed to Opine on Economic Damages
In this insurance bad faith case, Plaintiff James Won alleged that State Farm unreasonably denied his claim for business property damage and lost profits resulting from a fire that occurred at Won’s Tapioca Express store in Edmonds, Washington on September 11, 2021. Won disclosed Michael Jack of Soundpoint as a financial expert but the Defendant…
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Economics Expert’s Updated Damages Calculations Admitted
Plaintiff Misty Blanchette Porter was previously employed as a physician in the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (“REI”) Division within Dartmouth Health’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (“OB/GYN”). After Dartmouth Health made the decision to shut down the REI Division entirely and to terminate all three physicians employed therein—including Porter—Porter filed suit against Dartmouth Health citing…
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Defamation Expert’s Testimony on Economic Damages Excluded
Plaintiff Brian Menge, a former police detective with the City of Highland Park, Michigan, brought a claim against Defendant Khursheed Ash-Shafii, a Highland Park city councilman, alleging that Ash-Shafii unlawfully retaliated against him in violation of the First Amendment because of Menge’s successful settlement of a prior lawsuit against the City. The retaliation consisted of…
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Evidence of Causation Necessary to Support Damages Theory; Court Limits Clashing Expert Testimony on Economic Damages
This copyright infringement case was brought by JBrick, LLC (“JBrick”) against Chazak Kinder, Inc., Chazak Distribution, Inc., Marav USA LLC, and Yaacov Schwartz (collectively “Defendants”) in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. JBrick alleged that the Defendants infringed on their copyright for a lego model of the Second Holy…
