Personal injury damages fall into recognized economic categories: past and future lost earnings, lost earning capacity, lost employer-provided fringe benefits, lost household services, and the present-value cost of future medical and attendant care.
Dr. Pettingill has testified in personal injury matters for both plaintiffs and defendants across more than 29 jurisdictions. Each loss component is calculated using sources of data the court will recognize — Bureau of Labor Statistics earnings data, Social Security Administration work-life tables, and U.S. Treasury yields for discounting.
Where the plaintiff's pre-injury work history is incomplete or non-traditional, we anchor earning capacity to objective benchmarks (education, occupation, region) and document every assumption.