The Forensic Economics of Medical Monitoring Protocols

In major legal cases nationwide, a new category of economic damages has emerged: the costing of medical monitoring protocols. In this paper, the background of, importance of, and (sparse) literature on this topic will be briefly reviewed. Calculations and testimony issues that are similar to cost-of-care issues will be discussed. Then, the new and special issues of costing medical monitoring protocols will be reviewed in detail. These issues include the chain-of-expert flow to the forensic economist, in-flows and leakages, special cost issues, and such complexities as Markov and Monte Carlo modeling.