DEFENDANT & INSURER WORK
Economic Loss Assessments for Personal Injury Proceedings
Specialist forensic accounting and litigation support for solicitors, barristers, and their clients involved in commercial disputes. Arnold Shields has over 30 years of experience preparing forensic accounting reports and giving expert evidence across five Australian court jurisdictions.
Shields Forensics acts primarily for defendants, insurers, and self-insured entities in personal injury proceedings. A plaintiff's economic loss claim is built on a series of assumptions — each of which must be tested against the available evidence. Arnold approaches every matter with the discipline that defendant work demands.
WHAT WE ASSESS
The full range of economic loss components.
Past & Future Economic Loss
Past loss from injury to trial — earnings history, base figure, tax treatment. Future loss of earning capacity over the plaintiff's remaining working life — career trajectory, medical evidence, residual capacity, discount rates and sensitivity analysis. Particular scrutiny of claimed trajectories not supported by pre-injury history.
Review & Critique of Plaintiff Expert Reports
Identification of calculation errors, unsupported assumptions, inconsistencies with underlying financial records. Point-by-point structured format for direct use in cross-examination of the plaintiff's expert. Experienced in joint conclaves following plaintiff report review.
Lost Superannuation, Fox v Wood & Residual Capacity
Employer superannuation guarantee contributions lost, past and future. Fox v Wood component (NSW) calculated from workers compensation payments received. Residual earning capacity assessed from medical and vocational evidence and post-injury employment history.
Instruct Shields Forensics for Your Personal Injury Matter
Acting for defendants and insurers in personal injury matters across NSW and Victoria. Workers compensation, motor accident, and public liability matters accepted.
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