Associate Director Dr. Daniel Werner has published the article “Supply-Side Data Can Help Product Defect Damages Models” in Law360. Dr. Werner discusses economic damages and price premium methodologies applied in class actions involving product defect claims. He covers:

• Conjoint analysis and the related economic issues for damages;
• Disagreement among courts regarding the use of conjoint analysis, as noted in the Fisher-Price case; and
• Economic market simulations that can incorporate supply-side conditions in a manner that courts have ruled admissible.