Expert Services &
Testimony
Overview
The Avalon team has provided expert testimony in a wide variety of cases, including cases related to personal injury, product liability, coverage disputes, business interruption, lost revenue, lost wages, and the quantification of other types of harms that may arise in personal injury cases, product liability, and various commercial disputes.
Types Of Engagements
- Expert testimony on liability & damages in national opioid litigation
- Expert testimony on damages in pharmaceutical product liability
- Expert testimony on market share & damages in health system trademark infringement
- Expert testimony on reasonable fair market value of past & future medical charges in personal injury cases
- Expert testimony on damages resulting from breach in management services contract
- Expert testimony on damages in health system labor contract breach
- Expert testimony on coverage & reimbursement in commercial health insurance carrier
- Expert testimony on biotechnology company communication of clinical studies to investors
- Expert testimony on the attributable costs of tobacco product waste
Key Staff
- John Schneider, PhD
- Anthony LoSasso, PhD
- Robert Ohsfeldt, PhD
Related Markets & Industries
- Insurance & Third-Party Payers
- Attorneys & Law Firms
- Medical Services
- Hospitals & Health Systems
- Pharmaceuticals & Biotechnology
- Medical Devices & Diagnostics
- Private Equity & Venture Capital
- Consumer Products
- Utilities
- Construction
- Transportation
- Public Health
- Government
Related Publications
- Modelling the global economic costs of tobacco product waste. 2022
- Assessing the impact of state “opt-out” policy on access to and costs of surgeries and other procedures requiring anesthesia services. 2017
- Outcomes of Surgeries Performed in Physician Offices Compared With Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Hospital Outpatient Departments in Florida. 2017
- Cost impact of unexpected disposition after orthopedic ambulatory surgery associated with category of anesthesia provider. 2016
- Organizational boundaries of medical practice: the case of physician ownership of ancillary services. 2012
- Effects of health savings account-eligible plans on utilization and expenditures. 2011
- The effect of physician and health plan market concentration on prices in commercial health insurance markets. 2008
- The Business of Health. 2006
- Changes in the Effects of Mandatory Rate Regulation On Growth in Hospital Operating Costs, 1980–1996. 2003
Related Issue Briefs
- Can the Total be Greater than the Sum of the Parts? Assessing Damages and Abatement in Product Liability (Issue Brief No. 59)
- Product Liability and “Socially Optimal” Outcomes: The Importance of the Analyzing Cost-Benefit Tradeoffs in Healthcare Products and Services (Issue Brief No. 58)
- Attribuatable Risk and Attributable Fraction: Litigation Applications (Issue Brief No. 57)
- What are “Hedonic Damages,” and Should They Matter in Litigation? (Issue Brief No. 56)
- What Do Economists Have to Say About Liability (Issue Brief No. 55)
- The Rise of Litigation Funding and Medical Funding in Personal Injury and Product Liability Lawsuits (Issue Brief No. 54)
- Electronic Medical Records: Potential Issues in Litigation and Biomedical Research (Issue Brief No. 48)
- The Evolving Landscape of U.S. Payer Coverage Decisions: The Role of Health Economics and Outcomes Research (Issue Brief No. 37)
- How Should Health Care Providers Measure and Market the Value of their Services? (Issue Brief No. 23)
- How Big a Problem is Health Care Fraud and Abuse, and How Can We Detect It? (Issue Brief No. 9)
- U.S. Health Care Costs: Disentangling Underlying Trends from the Effects of the Affordable Care Act (Issue Brief No. 8)
- Nobody Pays Retail: A Primer on Valuing Medical Care Bills (Issue Brief No. 2)
- Using Publicly Available Health Care Databases to Value & Price Medical Care Services (Issue Brief No. 1)