Key Members of LAI Staff

John E Scarbrough, Ph.D.
President of LAI
Dr. Scarbrough has over 25 years experience analyzing economic loss in matters of personal injury and wrongful death. He has 20 years experience in evaluating cases arising from mass torts and other disasters. He is one of the few human capital economists testifying in court. Dr. Scarbrough is the original architect of all expert systems used by Litigation Analytics over the past twenty years. He is a frequent speaker to insurance companies and law firms, and is also the only structured settlement broker in the United States with a Ph.D. in economics.

James L. Finger, CFA
Senior Economist - Financial Services Specialist
Mr. Finger has been a senior economist with LAI since 1992. A former Wall Street analyst, portfolio manager and broker, he is intimately familiar with the financial services industry and has created many computer applications for use in such companies. He manages the analytical aspects of cases involving complex compensation or in which business and financial issues are key. Mr. Finger is experienced in successfully leading, or contributing to, the mediation of complex and difficult cases. He is also a structured settlement broker.

Jonathan D. Fisher, Ph.D.
Senior Economist
Prior to joining LAI, Dr. Fisher, who heads LAI’s New York City office, served as Research Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics, for five years. He was also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. He has published in many mainstream economics journals regarding unemployment, benefits, savings and consumption. Some of his specific research interests include consumption expenditures after retirement, the “life cycle” and the elderly, income imputation and expenditure data in the Consumer Expenditure Survey and income inequality.

Christina A. Houseworth , Ph.D.
Senior Economist
Dr. Houseworth received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studied under the renowned labor economist, Professor Barry Chiswick. Her recent research has focused on the determinants of intermarriage among the native born and immigrants to the United States. Dr. Houseworth’s case-related work at Litigation Analytics pertains to all aspects of economic damages. Her primary emphasis is on the communication of economic concepts to attorneys, through seminars and LAI’s CLE courses, and to jurors, through testimony.

Stephen Rubb, Ph.D.
Senior Economist
Dr. Rubb is a labor economist who focuses on the evaluation of economic damages. He has published extensively in many mainstream economics journals on topics ranging from education and earnings to worklife-related issues. Some of the specific areas covered by his research include the effect of aging on participation in the workforce and the effects of various Social Security benefits. He has also authored publications related to overeducation and earnings. Dr. Rubb also teaches at Sacred Heart University, where he is an associate professor.

Christopher Bartlett, Ph.D.
Senior Economist
Dr. Christopher Bartlett joins Litigation Analytics in June from Baylor University, where he has been an assistant professor of economics. Dr. Bartlett eventually will be located in LAI's Dallas office, scheduled to open in January 2009. A labor economist, Dr. Bartlett's research includes the inter-generational transmission of human capital, ability, education and dynamic discrimination, the labor market effects of preferential college admission, and family equivalence scales. Dr. Bartlett received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Texas.

Stephen R. Barnes, Ph.D.
Senior Economist
Stephen Barnes joins LAI from the Department of Economics at Louisiana State University where he is a health research team leader while waiting to defend his doctoral dissertation in May at the University of Texas. Stephen is a labor economist whose research has focused on health care issues, such as the demand for medical care and insurance, the cost of overweight and obesity and inter-area price differentials in the U.S. Dr. Barnes will be located initially in LAI's Ridgefield office, joining the Dallas office in January 2009.

Janet Reuter, MBA
Case Coordinator and Researcher
As coordinator of case screening, Ms. Reuter is in charge of the initial identification of case information requirements, customizing input forms and supervising follow-up and communication with counsel. She is also responsible for case scheduling and monitoring.

Laura Day, MBA
Case Coordinator and Researcher
Ms. Day reviews documents to extract relevant information and create case summary documents. She also identifies additional information requirements and communicates these to counsel.

Yuliana Sameroynina, M.S.
Researcher
Yuliana Sameroynina has joined LAI’s New York City office as a researcher. Her focus is to support the research of LAI’s senior economists in that office, both case-specific and general research. Ms. Sameroynina has just completed work on the American Community Survey, the data from which LAI’s economists are pooling across multiple years. She is presently working with the NSSRN data set, a national database regarding nurses and their earnings. This is in support of the research by some of LAI’s economists on the determination of the level of nurses’ wages and changes thereto. Ms. Sameroynina also teaches microeconomic theory at New York University, where she recently completed her masters in economics.