Publications
- Discounting Damage Awards Using Intermediate-Term Government Bond Funds vs. U.S. Treasuries Ladder: Tradeoffs in Theory and Practice
- Discounting Damage Awards Using the Zero Coupon Treasury Curve: Satisfying Legal and Economic Theory While Matching Future Cash Flow Projections
- Negative Net Discount Rates: When Are They Appropriate?
- Cross Examining the Plaintiff’s Economist: How Much Difference Can Economic Assumptions Make, and How Well Can the Economist Defend Them?
- Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of Maryland
- How your Economist’s Choice of Discounting Method Will Affect the Size of Your Damage Award
- CMS Health Care Price Projections and Issues for Forensic Economics
- Pension Treatment under the Collateral Source Rule
- Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of Maryland
- CMS Health Care Price Projections and Issues for Damages Experts, Updated for 2021-2030
Contact this Expert Witness
- Additional States: District Of Columbia and Virginia
- Company: Joseph I. Rosenberg, CFA, LLC
- Phone: 301-802-0617
- Website: www.joe-rosenberg.com
Specialties & Experience of this Expert Witness
General Specialties:
Economics and FinancialKeywords/Search Terms:
Damage Awards, Lost Profits, Loss of Earnings, Loss of Earning Capacity, Loss of Household Services, Divorce Financial Analysis, Annuity Valuation Analysis, Marital Property Division, Pension Valuation, Loss of Employee Benefits, Damaged Employment ProspectsEducation:
MBA-Finance, Accounting & Statistics, University of Chicago; MA-Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute; MPA-Public Administration, University of Massachusetts; BA-Political Science, Northeastern UniversityYears in Practice:
40+Number of Times Deposed/Testified in Last 4 Yrs:
24Additional Information
As a Forensic Economist, Mr. Rosenberg provides litigation support both plaintiff and defense, in cases of personal injury (PI); wrongful death (WD); wrongful termination (WT); commercial damages/business interruption/lost profits; professional/medical malpractice; mortgage fraud; damaged credit; and other torts in many state and federal jurisdictions throughout the country. For PI, WD, and WT cases, this includes calculating the present value of damage awards for losses of earning capacity, various employee benefits, household services, and life care plan valuations as appropriate, for past and future time periods. Mr. Rosenberg is a widely recognized expert in various topics. These include discount rate methodologies to calculate damage awards, methodologies applied to medical price inflation forecasting, and pension treatment under the collateral source rule. He has been published seven times in peer-reviewed journals on topics related to this important issue, twice in the Journal of Forensic Economics, three times in The Earnings Analyst, and once in the Journal of Legal Economics. Mr. Rosenberg also has been invited to make a number of presentations to his peers and has been a chosen panel discussant at several forensic economics conferences in recent years. In addition, he has been asked to be on several panels of economic experts at conferences addressing this topic, as well as being asked to write an article in the Expert Opinion of The Forecast, the newsletter of the National Association of Forensic Economics, on the “Current Interest Rate” method of discounting damage awards. Mr. Rosenberg has been invited to make a number of presentations to his peers or has been a chosen panel discussant at forensic economics conferences in recent years: • Allied Social Sciences Association Annual Conference/National Association of Forensic Economists program (ASSA/NAFE), in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, and 2021; • Annual Conference of Collegium of Pecuniary Damages Experts (CPDE), in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2019; • Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference/ National Association of Forensic Economists program (EEA/NAFE), in 2011, 2012 and 2016. Mr. Rosenberg holds an MBA from University of Chicago in finance, accounting and statistics, an MA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Economics, and has held the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation since 1999.