Man Fell Through Hole in Roof Left by Contractor ($5,054,554)

Property Owner Liable for Fall in Produce Market ($2,500,000)

Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

Employment Litigation

Lost Profits / Business Damages

Intellectual Property

Statistical Analysis

	"We won at our hearing yesterday in Tampa. Dr. Tinari was so incredibly helpful to our local counsel during the questioning of the accountant!" -Patti E. Evans, Esq. (for Defense)

Covering trends, research and recent cases involving damages issues.

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Selected Publications and Papers by the Forensic Economists at Tinari Economics Group

Many of the following listed papers have live links that will allow you to print the full version.

Frank D. Tinari, Ph.D.

Injury and Death Topics

"Ban Mortgage-Backed Securities?", co-authored with Dominick Mazzagetti, The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ, December 28, 2009.

"Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: the State of New Jersey", Annual Conference, ASSA, NAFE session, Boston, January 7, 2006.

Tinari, Frank D., Kevin E. Cahill and Elias Grivoyannis, "Did the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund Accurately Assess Economic Losses?", Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 6, Issue 1, January 2006, pp. 1-42. ISSN 1538-0653, The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy.

"What Accounts for the Big Differences in Damages Calculations for Death Cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey?", 2003 Question and Answer Supplement to The Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania Law Weekly.

"The Role of the Forensic Economist in Nursing Malpractice Actions", Chapter 34 of Nursing Malpractice, 3rd Ed., Edited by Patricia W. Iyer & Barbara J. Levin. Tucson: Lawyers & JudgesPublishing Co., Inc., 2007, pp. 1009-1019.

"Do We Double-Count Damages in Severe Personal Injury Cases?", Journal of Legal Economics, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1995, pp. 23-32.

Employment Litigation Topics

"Financial Planning - Making Prevailing Plaintiffs Whole", New Jersey Law Journal, Vol. CLXXVIII - No 7, November 15, 2004, with Christopher W. Hager.

"Approaches to Damages Measurement in Employment Litigation: An Introduction", Journal of Forensic Economics, 16(2), 2003, pp. 151-152.

"In Employment Litigation, Stock Options Are Real Money: The Experts' View", New York Employment Law & Practice (NY Law Journal Affiliate), Vol. 2, No. 7, April 2001, pp. 1-3.

"How to Keep Your Winning Clients From Getting Shortchanged by the Tax System", New York Employment Law & Practice (NY Law Journal Affiliate), Vol. 2, No. 5, February 2001, pp. 6-7.

Public Policy

"State's housing rules ignores needs of immigrants", Frank D. Tinari, Ph.D. and Kristin K. Kucsma, M.A., Daily Record, August 30, 2009

"Preparing for the Next Wave of McMansions", co-authored with Robert Michaels, New Jersey Municipalities, Trenton, NJ, June 2008, pp. 30-35.

"Should Your Town Establish a Land Use Board?", co-authored with Robert C. Kirkpatrick, New Jersey Municipalities, Trenton, NJ, January 2008, pp. 14-17.

"One Mayor’s View of State vs. Local Taxes", New Jersey Municipalities, November 2004, pp. 22-24.

Other Topics

"The Practice of Forensic Economics: An Introduction", presented at NAFE session, Eastern Economic Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, February 27, 2010.

"Estimates of Labor Productivity of Economic Damages Experts", co-authored with Elias Grivoyannis, Journal of Forensic Economics, 18(2-3), Fall 2005 (published July 2006), pp. 139-153.

Tinari, Frank D., and Kevin E. Cahill. 2005. "Does the New Jersey Unisex Life Expectancy Table Alleviate or Promote Gender Discrimination?". Working paper.

Tinari, Frank D., and Kevin E. Cahill. 2005. "A Note on a Perverse Result under New York State’s Rule 50-B: The Case of Pensions". Working paper.

"A Note on Household Services: Toward a More Comprehensive Measurement", Journal of Forensic Economics, 17(3), Fall 2004 (published December 2005), pp. 383-385.

"Teaching Forensic Economics in the University Curriculum", co-authored with Frank Slesnick, Journal of Forensic Economics, 14(3), 2001, pp. 243-260.

"Household Services: Toward A More Comprehensive Measure", Journal of Forensic Economics, 11(3), 1998, pp. 253-265.

"Competition for Forensic Economists and Their Ethical Behavior", Journal of Forensic Economics, 6(3), 1993, pp. 263-269.

"The Economic Expert for the Defense", The Connecticut Law Tribune, Vol. 12, No. 10, March 10, 1986, page 8. Part 1, Part 2.

Kristin K. Kucsma M.A.

Affordable Housing

"Is Affordable Housing the Remedy to Perceived Discrimination Against Immigrants?", co-authored with Frank D. Tinari, prepared for the Community Forum on Immigration and Education Issues, convened by the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, May 2009

"New Jersey's Council on Affordable Housing Research is Full of Shortcomings", co-authored with Frank Tinari, Newark Star-Ledger April 1, 2009

"Companionship, Advice, and Counsel Services", co-author, Section 640 of Chapter 6, The Value of Household Services, of Determining Economic Damages, by Gerald D. Martin, Ph.D., Costa Mesa, Ca: James Publishing, Inc., July 2008, pp. 6-7 - 6-11.