Our Economic Loss Experts at Tinari Economics Group

Tinari Economics Group (TEG) offers three testifying economic experts, Frank D. Tinari, Ph.D., Kristin K. Kucsma, M.A., and Stephen Levinson, Ph.D. Our experts have extensive knowledge of economics and finance and bring to TEG years of experience in litigation support, academia and consulting.

Our professional staff of research analysts works under the direct supervision of our economists in the assessment and quantification of damages associated with your case. The majority of the company's research analysts have graduate degrees in business-related fields such as economics and finance. Other areas of expertise include accounting, statistical analysis, and mathematics. Professional staff resources are fully utilized in addressing the details of each assignment we receive, thereby ensuring the highest level of accuracy and quality output found in the industry.

Qualifications of Economic Loss Expert Frank D. Tinari, Ph.D.

Dr. Tinari is an engaging and experienced courtroom witness who has provided expert economic testimony at over 700 trials, arbitration hearings and oral depositions. Since 1979, Dr. Tinari has served as president of the firm, providing economic and financial services to litigators, corporate counsel, insurance companies and other businesses throughout the nation. Dr. Tinari is a long-standing member of both the American Academy of Economic and Financial Experts (AAEFE) and the National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE). Dr. Tinari also served as the 2005-2007 President of the National Association of Forensic Economics (NAFE), the country’s leading association of forensic economists.

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Qualifications of Economic Loss Expert Kristin K. Kucsma. M.A.

Prior to joining TEG, Professor Kucsma spent over 13 years teaching economics at Saint Peter’s College, Rutgers, Seton Hall and Drew Universities. Teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, Professor Kucsma was an award winning educator, receiving Professor of the Year Award two years in a row. Her areas of expertise include money, banking and financial markets, corporate finance, and government and business. Kucsma has lectured on consumer safety, measuring the impact of positive and negative externalities, and evaluating market and government responses to these externalities.

Professor Kucsma has worked extensively on cases involving lost profits, personal injury, wrongful death, stock valuation, and employment law. She has played and will continue to play a critical role in expanding the group’s commercial damages business by integrating her considerable knowledge of securities valuation and political economy into the existing portfolio of comprehensive services offered by TEG.

Kucsma is a member of the Eastern Economic Association and the American Monetary Institute.

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Qualifications of Economic Loss Expert Stephen B. Levinson, Ph.D.

Dr. Levinson’s experience as an economist spans over 35 years in the areas of microeconomics, regulation of business, and finance. He specialized in telecommunications pricing and public policy determination and applied these in rulemaking proceedings and testimony before state and federal governments. Dr. Levinson has also taught microeconomics to MBA students as an adjunct professor at the Rutgers University Business School. In recent years, he has applied his expertise extensively in forensic economic cases, including the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, employment, and lost profits.

Dr. Levinson is a member of the American Economic Association, the Eastern Economic Association and the National Association of Forensic Economics.


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