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Robert W. Johnson & Associates, one of the nation's leading litigation economics consulting firms, specializes in quantifying and illustrating economic, non-economic and punitive damages.
We provide attorneys with accurate and understandable answers to complex litigation economics questions. Our forensic economists evaluate each case individually and provide the analysis you need to substantiate the client's present and future losses. We also offer a wide range of services to the legal community, including the evaluation and negotiation of structured settlements. read more...
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FEATURED CASES:
FUTURE MEDICAL EXPENSES |
CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA CASE SETTLES MINUTES BEFORE A $42.4 MILLION JURY VERDICT IS RENDERED |
On January 30, 2002, Mr. Brown was working as an electrician at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, installing electrical circuitry on the Cirque Du Soleil’s “O” performance stage. He was working underneath a 1,000 pound prop when its anchor point broke and the prop fell on him.
Mr. Brown was taken to University Medical Center where he remained in the intensive care unit for two weeks. He sustained near fatal injuries, including a depressed skull fracture, brain injury and an L-1 spinal cord injury, which resulted in incomplete paralysis of his lower extremities.
Mr. Johnson was retained to testify to an accepted econometric methodology that would assist the jury in quantifying the loss of enjoyment of life... read more...
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BROWARD CIRCUIT COURT JURY ORDERS
PHILIP MORRIS USA TO PAY $300 MILLION TO EX-SMOKER |
Lucinda Naugle, 61, smoked her first cigarette in 1968 when she was twenty years old because she thought they “made her look older”. Ms. Naugle claimed that Philip Morris USA (“PMUSA”), which allegedly concealed evidence of the health problems associated with smoking, is responsible for her medical problems. She never would have begun smoking if she had known nicotine was highly addictive and that cigarettes were considered by PMUSA to be a “drug delivery device” according to her attorneys.
After 25 years of heavy smoking, she was able to quit smoking with the help of the nicotine patch. She is wheelchair bound by severe emphysema and needs 24-hour oxygen.
Ms. Naugle’s lawsuit is one of the thousands of Engle Progeny cases, individual actions that emerged when the Florida Supreme Court overturned a $145 billion verdict and decertified the class in Engle v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in 2006.
Mr. Johnson was retained to testify regarding two elements of damages, compensatory and punitive. read more...
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SAN JOSÉ COURT AWARDS $29.3 MILLION TO BRAIN- INJURED 12 YEAR-OLD BOY IN A “DART OUT” CASE
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Rasheed Hilson, a young African-American student, left a girls’ basketball game at Morrill Middle School in San José, California.
Outside of the gym, Rasheed briefly chatted with four friends before seeing his bus and, in typical 12- year-old fashion, ran to catch it without thinking of anything else. He ran down the school driveway into the street, without looking, directly into the path of a BMW SUV.
Rasheed was hit, shattered the BMW’s windshield and flew over the vehicle. The defendant driver reported she was going 33 mph in a school zone and kept driving 130 yards after impact before turning and stopping. Defendant thought a rock had shattered her windshield. read more...
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RWJA 2013 Year-End
Verdicts Summary |
Robert W. Johnson & Associates is proud to provide a listing of the firm's top verdicts of 2013. Key verdicts during 2013 included the wrongful death case of
Medina, et al. v. BorgWarner, Inc., et al., with a verdict of $38,890,000. Combined with eight other major cases during the year, Robert W. Johnson & Associates contributed financial testimony in verdicts amounting to $113,657,533.
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Economic Expert James Mills Testifies at Over 250 Depositions |
Robert W. Johnson & Associates congratulates economics expert James Mills. An employee of RWJA for over 12 years, Mr. Mills has testified in over 250 depositions.
Mr. Mills has also testified in trial 20 times. He has never failed to qualify as an economic expert at the trial level. His testimony has been accepted in state courts in Alameda, Fresno, Los Angeles, Mendocino, San Bernardino, San Francisco, San Joaquin and Ventura counties. Additionally he has been admitted as an economic expert in state courts in Oregon, Nevada and Washington.
Attorney’s Comments Regarding Mr. Mills’ punitive damages testimony at trial: "Mr. Mills helped the jury to understand the true financial condition of the defendant. Although the defendant has not operated for decades, Mr. Mills was able to examine historical documents, including old news releases, and explain to the jury in clear and understandable terms how that information revealed the defendant’s actual financial condition. Mr. Mills was able to take tax return information received during trial and convey that data to the jury in a way that supported his opinions and assisted them in their task.”
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