On January 10, 2025, a California federal judge certified an End-User class of indirect purchasers of suspension assemblies (SAs)—a critical component in hard disk drives (HDDs)—where the HDDs were sold either as standalone products or incorporated into computers and other electronic devices. applEcon’s Dr. Janet S. Netz provided expert economic testimony as to the class-wide…
Dr. Janet Netz was the chair of the panel on Models of Damages Assessment at the Perfect Law 2024 Global Class Actions and Mass Torts Conference in London, England, this past May 23-24. Dr. Netz and participants Derek Ho, Tjeerd Krol, Dr. Dante Quaglione, and Thierry Wetzel discussed the role of damages assessment in class…
Dr. Janet S. Netz and applEcon assisted counsel representing indirect purchasers in securing a $82.5 million settlement in conjunction with an agreement with Varsity and its co-Defendants to abandon many of their anticompetitive business practices to prevent future harms. The non-monetary settlement provisions include (1) the participation in end-of-season championship competitions will no longer require…
applEcon is pleased to announce the affiliation of expert Pierre Thomas Léger. Professor Léger is an economist with over 20 years of experience in applied research focusing on healthcare economics, industrial organization, labor economics, and applied econometrics. Professor Léger’s research focuses on healthcare markets with special emphasis on the impact of financial incentives on provider…
applEcon is pleased to announce the affiliation of expert Dr. David Keiser. Dr. Keiser is an environmental economist with a focus on the economics of water resources. His work covers a wide-range of topics, including non-market valuation, damage estimation, and policy evaluation. Dr. Keiser has engaged as an expert witness and consultant on a number…
Dr. Brian C. Becker has served as an economic expert witness and consultant for more than thirty years on behalf of corporations, law firms, governments, and organizations. With a focus on quantitative valuations, Dr. Becker has provided written and oral testimony in disputes over transfer pricing, intellectual property, financial transactions, international trade, business valuations, and…
applEcon is pleased to announce the affiliation of expert Gabriel Lade. Dr. Lade specializes in environmental and natural resource economics. His areas of expertise include biofuels regulation, valuation of water and air quality, and utility conservation. His research has explored the economics and consumer impacts of renewable fuels regulations, the impacts of air pollution on…
applEcon is pleased to announce the affiliation of expert David G. Campbell. Dr. Campbell has more than twenty years of experience performing statistical and econometric analysis in consulting projects for corporate and government clients. His practice focuses on antitrust, statistical sampling, environmental economics and health care matters. Dr. Campbell has broad experience in a wide…
More than a decade ago, applEcon provided support for plaintiffs in Pro-Sys Consultants Ltd. and Neil Godfrey v. Microsoft Corporation and Microsoft Canada Co., one of the first indirect-purchaser antitrust class actions certified in Canada. Now, the landmark case is becoming the standard for antitrust class certification in British, as well as Canadian, courts.
applEcon Partner Janet S. Netz chaired the “How to Quantify Damages?” panel during the Fifth Annual Global Class Action Conference on April 27th in London. The Global Class Action and Mass Torts Conference is one of the largest international class action conferences for 2023. The panel discussed the issues of quantifying the overcharge rate and…