EARNINGS CAPACITY ASSESSMENT

An Earnings Capacity Assessment is used to determine the loss in earnings incurred as a result of the illness/injury suffered by the client.

Benefits: It is extremely helpful in adjudicating claims, setting reserves, and developing structured settlements. It is a valuable component of a Life Care Plan It is essential anytime there is long term wage loss.

Assists attorneys who litigate disability cases

• Rebut an opposing counsel's economic damages expert.
• Reduce or increase present value
• Prepare a line of questioning for deposition of the opposing expert
• Make decisions as to whether or not to retain a rebuttal expert
• To help position the case

Vocational Expert Analysis
A Transferable Skills Analysis is used as the basis for determining future Employability and Earning Capacity. The skills and abilities the worker possess, are founded in their work history. This analysis is coupled with the results of medical, educational and vocational evaluations to establish the residual employability profile of skills, and physical abilities. This information combined with a labor market survey form a profile of maximal earnings potential post-injury.

Pediatric Earning Capacity – in the unique and complicated case of infants or children, research and testimony regarding estimating the pre-morbid earning capacity of children who suffer catastrophic disability are addressed.