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The Federal wealth transfer tax system consists of three components: a gift tax, an estate tax, and a generation-skipping transfer tax. Since 2020, herein 73 million Baby Boomers and their tax advisors faced uncertainty because these three components have remained in flux for the last two decades. In this article, the authors explore the history […]

Life insurance agents work strictly on commissions, but the figures vary from company to company and agency to agency. What do the top life insurance companies earn from premiums customers paid in the last fall year that information was available: Commissions paid to agents vary upon the size of the policy and the product type

Since 1970, health spending growth has outpaced the growth of the United States economy as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI). In 1970, total national health expenditures as a percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was 6.9%; total national health expenditure in 2018 represented 17.7% of GDP. The recently released National Health Expenditure (NHE)

Overview: In catastrophic injury cases the cost of future care is always a component of damages. While some treatments require on-site procedures, the use of telehealth and bio-metrics have recently taken substantial strides in managing and monitoring patient issues. The following provides an overview of recent changes in telehealth regulations, and how these changes will

Introduction One recurrent theme that occurs in wrongful death cases, involving spouses with no dependents at home or family members who can assist with nighttime protection and care, is ‘why is this not ever provided when measuring economic damages in a wrongful death case’? Nighttime security or protection is not the same thing as comfort

In 1993, the Supreme Court set the standard for expert testimony admissibility, called the Daubert Standard, under which the court provided guidelines to determine whether or not an expert’s methodology is valid. The Daubert guidelines consist of five factors: 1. Whether the theory or technique in question has been tested 2. Whether it has been

On July 30, 2019, the Governor of California signed SB41 into law. This law became effective January 1, 2020 as California Civil Code Section 3361, and requires that calculations of past, present and future lost earnings or impaired earning capacity which are based on sources such as the Current Population Survey, not be reduced based