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...damages exceeded by $1.5 million the testimony of economist Charles Linke regarding the "upper bound" of the present cash value of Richardson's...Hon. Charles J. Durham, Judge, presiding.
O'Connor, Schiff Myers, of Chicago (Elliot R. Schiff, John W. Grove and Mark A. Smith, of counsel), for... by plaintiff Richardson concerning the calculation of the present value of her future economic losses. The defendants maintain that Professor Charles...
...witness, Professor Charles Linke -- an analysis to which this opinion now turns.
Sansone's submissions comprise (1) a 4-page "Plaintiff's Memorandum on Calculation of Lost Compensation...
...this income in the winter by working at a beef packing house. Dr. Charles Linke, an economist called by plaintiffs, testified that the present value of plaintiff's expected money wages during his 31.2...attendant care could currently be obtained at a cost of $43.18 per day. Dr. Linke, plaintiff's economist, testified that, assuming a 5.5% annual increase in cost, and using a 6% discount rate, the...patio and steel shed. Dr. Linke, using studies he considered authoritative, estimated the average value of non-paid work services performed by a head of household in Sioux City, over Hysell's expected...
...also raises three objections to the testimony of plaintiff's expert economist, Dr. Charles Linke. First, defendant contends that Dr. Linke's testimony violated the 60-day requirement of Supreme Court...to establish a disclosure schedule if an expert witness is not otherwise disclosed. Here, Dr. Linke was otherwise disclosed, and, therefore, Rule 220(b) is not applicable. Rather Rule 220(c), which...that Dr. Linke's testimony regarding decedent's future earning capacity was erroneously admitted because it was speculative. Dr. Linke based his testimony upon the earnings of the average male Illinois...
..., Charles Linke, to estimate the amount of money DeBiasio would need today to replace his earnings as a switchman for the rest of his work life expectancy. Linke estimated that, including money earnings and..., the jury's award for lost future earnings was over $85,000 less than the upper range figures provided by Linke. Having failed to present competent evidence at trial of the potential future wages...
..., Sullivan, and Dr. Charles Linke. Under such circumstances, the omission of Schreiber's name was not apparently purposeful. We cannot conclude from this record that plaintiff was lacking in good faith. In...
...was proper.
• 4 Defendant also argues that the trial court erred when it permitted plaintiff's expert economist, Dr. Charles Linke, to testify regarding information contained in...-day limitation in Rule 220(b) is implemented to insure that discovery regarding expert witnesses not otherwise disclosed is completed sufficiently before trial. Here, Linke was otherwise disclosed to...defendant, and thus Rule 220(b) does not apply. Moreover, having reviewed the two reports, there appears to be no material change in the basic methodology or tables used by Linke to calculate present...
...(approximately $12,000). Professor Charles Linke, an economist at the University of Illinois, calculated that the present value of the estimated $43.18 per day payments for future medical care...the basis of a revised university study at a present value of $53,508.00. Thus a total economic loss of $363,424.00 resulted, according to the testimony of Professor Linke. This was, however, a gross...
.... Charles Linke, plaintiff's economics expert, should have been excluded and that the railroad was prejudiced by having inadequate opportunity to prepare for and rebut the expert testimony. The record...shows that defendant relied on plaintiff's representation that the expert would not be called. The court allowed a deposition of Linke in the evening during the week of the trial. We accept...
...unusual for trauma to trigger MS symptoms. He had seen two cases other than Steven's in which he believed this had occurred.
Professor Charles Linke, an economist at the University of...Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, testified on Steven's behalf. Linke testified over the objection of Valiulis' attorney that the present value of future earnings for the average male Illinois worker...Steven's MS.
• 5 Valiulis next contends that the testimony of Professor Linke, the economist who testified on Steven's behalf, as to future economic loss, was impermissibly...
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Cartwright presented evidence of his damages through the testimony of John Wright, M.D., James Young, M.D., Timothy Urbin, Ph.D., and Charles Linke, Ph.D., who testified as to...Orlando, Judge, presiding.
Burke, Weaver Prell, of Chicago (Nicholas J. Bua, Edmund W. Sinnott, Michael H. West, and Charles D. Knight, of...defect in the tire.
Pursuant to section 2-1102 of the Code of Civil Procedure ( 735 ILCS 5/2-1102 (West 1994)), plaintiffs called Charles Yurkovich, a tire expert, who testified...
...April 4, 1973. It does not appear that these letters were ever put to any use.
Dr. Charles Linke, an economist, using Dr. Holmes' figures, estimated the present cash value at...trial plaintiff's evidence on the issue of reduced earning capacity was presented primarily by Dr. Holmes and Dr. Linke. Dr. Holmes calculated plaintiff's pre-trial loss to be $347,431 by finding the...whether he could "tell the jury how long after trial [McGrath's career damage] would extend on an annual basis," he said that he could not, that he was "not qualified to do so." Similarly, Dr. Linke, who...
...of [the specialist's] methodology") (emphasis added).
Moreover, Dr. Charles Linke, an economist and Tube City's expert, used the same methodology as Dr. Gamboa, including the same...
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With respect to plaintiff's damages, Charles Linke, an economist, calculated plaintiff's economic loss based upon...what an average railroad worker plaintiff's age could be expected to earn from the time of plaintiff's injury until his expected retirement. Dr. Linke assumed that an average worker would retire at 58.4.... Linke also stated that assuming plaintiff could earn $20,000 per year as a real estate salesman and/or appraiser, his future lost earnings as a railroad worker could be reduced by 37% or $310,000...
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The Court now turns to the experts' deposition transcripts. Defendant Byrne deposed Charles Linke, Plaintiffs' economist, on a daily basis, and Plaintiffs do not object to the daily basis rate. The...Linke, Boyd, Goldman, McTague, Patel, Guo, and Crawford because Plaintiffs identified these individuals as persons with knowledge of the allegations in the Complaint or disclosed these individuals as...
...improperly restricted by the circuit court in its cross-examination of plaintiff's economic expert, Dr. Charles Linke, who testified that he performed an analysis of plaintiff's lost earnings from the date of...).
In conducting his analysis, Dr. Linke relied on several factors pertaining to plaintiff: race, sex, age, work-life expectancy, education, occupation, geographical area in which he...worked and lived, demonstrated earnings capacity, and actual earnings history. Based on the foregoing, and computing present value, Dr. Linke calculated the pre-trial loss to be $265,288 for lost earnings...
.... It argues that one of Shipler's experts, Charles Linke, who holds a doctor of business administration degree, did not opine to a reasonable degree of economic certainty regarding her loss of earning...capacity. It claims that Linke had inadequate information to be able to express an opinion to a reasonable degree of certainty and therefore looked to the jury to fill in the blanks and that the only...evidence that Shipler cited to support her future earnings was 2 years of prior earnings.
At trial, Linke testified that Shipler's worklife expectancy was 19.5 years. He explained...
...problems. There was expert testimony from Charles Linke, an economist, establishing that the average life expectancy for Mr. Diaz was 21 years...
...Debtor's and Trustee's Motion to Vacate Dismissal and to Allow Discharge filed by Creditor Charles M. Linke; the Court, having heard arguments of counsel, and having reviewed the record of Debtor's...). Creditor, Charles M. Linke, has objected to the relief sought by the Debtor and has been joined in that objection by the United States on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service...
...near the mine.
CHARLES LINKE (an economist and professor): offer of proof; he was familiar with measurement of losses from an economic standpoint; legal rules are not always...