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

1. 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.
2. C.L. Brown (2022) How forensic economic technology can assist injury lawyers The Barrister Fall 2022.
3. C.L. Brown (2021) Sub-Standard Mortality: Serious Implications for Injury & Fatality Cases HEARSAY Canadian Defence Lawyers

  Brown Economic Consulting continues to publish and disseminate its newsletter, Brown's Economic Damages Newsletter, and regularly updates its newsletter topic index. Recent topics include:

• a 5-part series on wage gaps from Statistics Canada's 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD);
• a decision from Vancouver, BC compensating a self-employed contractor named Corness v. Ng 2022 BCSC 334 (March 2022);
• forecasting rising health care costs for cost of care recommendations (April 2022);
• income patterns by geography, education, occupation, age group, industry sector, and family type (June 2022);
• distinguishing between the use of Statistics Canada's main wage index (SEPH data) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for extrapolating wages (July 2022).

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