The 3rd Edition of The Comprehensive Guide to Lost Profits and Other Commercial Damages, edited by Nancy J. Fannon and Jonathan Dunitz, Esq., provides a deep and rich resource for financial experts and attorneys seeking guidance on damage calculations. The Guide focuses on financial evidence: how to gather it, interpret it, and tell its story in a lawsuit or litigation setting. Blending the financial expert's knowledge of accepted methods and procedures with the attorney's knowledge of legal issues and insights, it provides in-depth analysis and interpretation of the continually expanding body of case law. Key highlights of the new edition include: -Updated and expanded chapters covering all aspects of calculating lost profits / loss of business value -An insightful and comprehensive look at the unjust enrichment remedy -Substantive new materials on forensic accounting -A new chapter covering business interruption -Expanded coverage of benefit of the bargain damages -Expanded insights into intellectual property damages, including patents, trademarks and copyright -New and enhanced abstracts of many of the lost profit and damage cases found throughout the book Ensure that you have the most up-to-date thinking on damages by adding The Comprehensive Guide to Lost Profits and Other Commercial Damages to your business library today!

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.

"A completely rewritten, up-to-the-minute edition of the only text devoted to this difficult topic. Frequently cited by the courts as authority, this widely owned treatise provides an incisive, well-organized analysis of every significant lost profits damages case in the federal and 50-state jurisdictions, plus invaluable practice guidance that explains how to calculate, present, and prove lost profits damages. cites, organizes, and skillfully analyzes every significant lost profits case -- on every lost profits issue -- in both contract and tort actions provides up-to-date coverage of the 2003 revision to Article Two (Sales) of the Uniform Commercial Code, as well as the specific guidelines limiting recovery of economic damages in tort cases set down by the RESTATEMENT, TORTS (THIRD): PRODUCTS LIABILITY explains and illustrates both theoretical and practical approaches to calculating the true extent of damages serves as a complete guide on how to prove -- and how NOT to prove -- lost profits damages, with detailed new coverage of such subjects as qualification of lost profits experts, the foundation for testimony on lost profits, the form of the lost profits expert opinion, and presentation of evidence up-to-the-minute discussions and analysis of the foreseeability rule, the economic loss rule, how to discount future damages, and the admissibility of economic damages expert testimony under Daubert principles new outlines for direct and cross-examination of damages expert witnesses."--Publisher's website.

This new edition, edited by Nancy J. Fannon, Jonathan Dunitz, Jimmy Pappas, Bill Scally, and Steve Veenema, features 49 chapters drawing on the expertise of nearly 70 financial experts and attorneys. The Comprehensive Guide to Economic Damages, 6th Edition combines the economic expert's knowledge of damages calculations and methods with legal and case analysis. It provides a deep and rich resource for financial experts and attorneys seeking guidance on appropriate remedies and related damages calculations, and addresses many of the problems that may arise in any case. With each successive edition of this guide, the editors and authors have drilled deeper into existing topics, and broadened the scope of damages material covered. The breadth and depth of topics discussed, along with 300 court case digests, makes the Guide the most comprehensive body of knowledge relating to economic damages available.

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