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Review of Case Materials
Reviews records, documents, testimony, data, and other relevant materials and consults with counsel regarding technical issues related to the matter.
Provide Expert Analysis
Applies specialized knowledge and experience to evaluate the technical or professional issues involved.
Form Expert Opinions
Develops independent, supportable opinions based on the available evidence and relevant standards.
Prepare Expert Reports
Prepares clear, well-supported expert reports outlining methodology, analysis, findings, and opinions.
Provide Deposition Testimony
Explains findings and opinions under oath and responds to questioning during deposition testimony.
Testify in Court
Presents specialized findings and opinions clearly to judges, juries, arbitrators, or other decision-makers.
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Life tables provide population-based mortality rates and estimates of remaining life expectancy at particular ages. A Life Expectancy Expert Witness may identify an appropriate table, determine the relevant population benchmark, and evaluate whether additional information supports further individualization of the estimate. A life-table result represents an average based on specified population assumptions and does not establish how long a particular individual will live.
Medical diagnoses, disease severity, treatment history, functional status, comorbidities, smoking or other risk factors, and relevant survival research may affect whether a population-based estimate adequately reflects an individual. A Life Expectancy Expert Witness may consider medically supported information when evaluating mortality assumptions, but an opinion concerning diagnosis, prognosis, or the effect of a specific medical condition on survival may require an appropriately qualified physician or other medical specialist.
A Life Expectancy Expert Witness focuses on mortality, survival, and estimating remaining years of life. Geriatric care expertise focuses more broadly on the health, functional, social, and care needs of older adults, including coordination of services and planning for changing needs. Information about an individual's geriatric condition may be relevant to a life-expectancy analysis, but care planning and mortality estimation involve different professional assignments.
A life care plan may project future medical care, rehabilitation, equipment, support services, and associated costs over an individual's expected remaining lifespan. The assumed life expectancy can therefore materially affect the duration and total projected cost of the plan. A life care planner addresses future care needs within that discipline, while a Life Expectancy Expert Witness may provide separate analysis when the expected duration of life is itself disputed.
Different estimates may result from the mortality table selected, population characteristics, valuation date, medical evidence, individual risk factors, survival studies, assumptions about future mortality improvement, and the weight assigned to particular information. A Life Expectancy Expert Witness may compare these inputs to determine whether the disagreement arises from the underlying data, methodology, assumptions, or the way population-based mortality evidence was individualized.
