Book description
An updated explanation of the methodology for how lost profits should
be measured
Now fully revised and updated, focused on commercial litigation and
the many common types of cases, this is the only book in the field to
explain the complicated process of measuring business interruption
damages. The book features an easy to understand and apply,
step-by-step process for how losses should be measured so as to be
accurate and reliable and consistent with the relevant laws.
With a new chapter on the economics of punitive damages, the new
edition also explains detailed methods for measuring damages in
contract litigation, intellectual property lawsuits, antitrust, and
securities cases. This new Second Edition incorporates the
latest developments in the fields of economics and accounting, while
also integrating the most current changes in case law.
Here's what you will find
- Each chapter includes new materials and updated content
- Added websites for sources of data
- Includes a website for updated tables that can be utilized by readers
- A section of the new cases involving Daubert challenges to economists
- Includes methods on how to do industry research
- A new section covering the equity risk premium and the various
recent research studies, which set forth the debate on what the
premium should be
Containing exhibits, tables, and graphs, new cases involving Dauber,
how to do industry research, equity risk premium, research studies on
the marketability discount, anti-trust, punitive damages, and more,
Measuring Business Interruption Losses and Other Commercial
Damages, Second Edition incorporates the relevant literature and
research that has come out in this field over the past four years.
Patrick A. Gaughan has published eight books,
including the award-winning Mergers Acquisitions and Corporate
Restructurings, Fourth Edition, published by Wiley. He is President of
Economatrix Research Associates, Inc., a firm that has conducted
damages analysis for the past twenty years for corporate clients such
as Airbus, GE, GM, Ford, Philip Morris, and Wyeth as well as insurance
companies including Liberty Mutual, Zurich, State Farm, and many of
the major law firms in the United States.
