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Ongoing research and development in the forensic economic field has led to the following recent publications:

1. C.L. Brown (2025) Assessing Economic Loss Damages in Canada Journal of Forensic Economics (forthcoming).
2. C.L. Brown (2025) Wrongful death cases: Repudiation of the ‘sole dependency’ calculation, the dependency loss formula, and how new family members reduce losses on income and valuable services HEARSAY Canadian Defence Lawyers.
3. C.L. Brown (2023) How the Wage Deficit Approach (WDA) can be used to Assess Economic Loss Damages based on Guidance from British Columbia case law UBC Law Review volume 56:1.

   Brown Economic Consulting continues to publish and disseminate its research periodical free of charge, Brown's Economic Damages Newsletter, and regularly updates its newsletter topic index. Of the almost 300 issues authored to date, below we list highlight topics of interest to practitioners:

• Distinguishing between forensic economic expertise and why non-economic experts cannot assess pecuniary awards accurately: see When non-economic experts attempt to do the forensic economists’ job March/April 2024.
• Methodological updates in wrongful death cases:
  • In wrongful death cases, all family members must be counted (aka: repudiating the ‘sole dependency’ calculation) Oct. 2024.
  • Fatality cases: PCRs, Valuable Services, Remarriage and Divorce Contingencies, and the Tax gross-up Nov. 2022.
• Methodological updates for housekeeping loss assessments:
  • Valuing Household Rates in Civil Litigation, and how they are used in the Housekeeping Damages Calculator^TM @ www.browneconomic.com May 2024.
• a trial decision from British Columbia compensating a self-employed floor installer named Corness v. Ng 2022 BCSC 334 (March 2022), which was accepted in entirety by the British Columbia court of appeal in Ng v. Corness 2023 BCCA 185 (May 2023).
• a 5-part series on the impact of disability on education, employment, and income from Statistics Canada's 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (Aug. 2021, Sept. 2021, Oct. 2021, Dec. 2021, Jan. 2022).
• a 5-part series on the economic impact of the COVID pandemic on the Canadian economy (June 2020, July 2020, Sept. 2020, Jan. 2021, May 2021).
• a trial decision from Saskatchewan compensating the plaintiff from a diving accident, resulting in total damages in excess of $12 million, including $879,000 for loss of marriage benefit. The Saskatchewan court of appeal affirmed all of the jury’s awards: see Biletski v. University of Regina – JURY VERDICT in excess of $9 million, including $879,000 for loss of marriage benefit (Oct. 2017) and University of Regina v. Biletski &nsdash; COURT OF APPEAL FOR SASKATCHEWAN approves trial jury’s award in excess of $9 million, including $879,000 for loss of marriage benefit, affirming a total award for Ms. Biletski in excess of $12.1 million (Spring 2019).

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