Personal Injury Litigation

Illness behaviour, pain and personal injury litigation.

The Injury Brokers: an Empirical Profile of Medical Expert Witnesses in Personal Injury Litigation

[In the civil justice system, medical expert witnesses act as brokers of what qualifies as legally recognised and compensable injury. Despite the central importance of their role, and continuing debate over the use of expert evidence, remarkably little empirical evidence is available about who medical experts are and what they do. This article reports findings from a study that built a detailed...

Assessing Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of West Virginia

The federal/state legal system of the United States means that a forensic economist faces different legal rules and parameters in each state of his or her practice. It is the purpose of this article to provide an experienced forensic economist, entering a West Virginia case, with necessary information and guidance for appropriate testimony in personal injury and wrongful death cases. This is ac...

Preventing the discovery of plaintiff genetic profiles by defendants seeking to limit damages in personal injury litigation.

Diffusion tensor imaging in mild traumatic brain injury litigation.

A growing body of literature addresses the application of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) to traumatic brain injury (TBI). Most TBIs are of mild severity, and their diagnosis and prognosis are often challenging. These challenges may be exacerbated in medicolegal contexts, where plaintiffs seek to present objective evidence that supports a clinical diagnosis of mild (m)TBI. Because DTI permits qu...