The economics of injury, quantified for court.
Fero provides forensic economic-damages analysis and expert testimony in personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation — lost earnings, earning capacity, life-care present value and household services — measured with academic rigor and delivered to a Daubert standard.
Most firms treat damages as a sideline. We don't do anything else.
Fero exists to answer one question with rigor and independence: what has this injury, or this death, actually cost — in dollars, over a lifetime? Firm-built models, signed by a credentialed economist, because the number has to hold when it is tested.
Economic damages we measure
Lost earnings & earning capacity
Past and future wage loss — worklife expectancy, earnings growth, fringe benefits and the diminution in capacity the vocational and medical evidence supports, reduced to present value.
Wrongful-death economic loss
The financial support, services and accompaniment lost to survivors — net of the decedent's personal consumption — valued over the appropriate joint life expectancies.
Household & replacement services
The economic value of household services an injured or deceased person can no longer provide, costed against market replacement rates.
Life-care & future-medical PV
Present-value analysis of a life-care plan or future-medical schedule — growth and discount rates applied on a defensible, published-data basis.
Rebuttal & critique
Independent review of an opposing economist's report — the errors, overstatements and unsupported assumptions that don't survive Daubert.
Academic rigor. Courtroom clarity.
Credentialed testimony
Engagements are led and signed by a PhD economist and university professor — the credentials a Rule 702 challenge is meant to test.
A real modelling bench
Behind the testimony sits Fero's actuarial practice — a modelling team whose core work is building lifetime loss models. Done properly, explained simply.
Independent by design
A report that overreaches is a report that gets excluded. We quantify only what the evidence supports.
Built to the standard
Every report is written to comply with FRCP 26(a)(2)(B) and to satisfy Federal Rule of Evidence 702 as amended in December 2023. Transparent methods, published data, stated assumptions and reproducible numbers, with the disclosures the rule requires.
How it works
Case screen
Describe the matter in general terms. After a conflict check and signed engagement, we confirm a secure channel for the complaint and medical and vocational records, then give you an early read on the economic exposure.
Analysis
A full economic-loss model — earnings, worklife, growth, discounting and consumption — grounded in published data.
Expert report
A clear, Daubert-ready report you can produce, depose on and take to trial.
Testimony
Deposition and trial testimony, plus rebuttal of the opposing economist as the case requires.
Who's behind the number
Fero is built on a deep actuarial modelling bench and backed by credentialed economists who carry the testimony — the horsepower to build the model, and the authority to defend it on the stand.
Dr. Chris Manfre, Ph.D.
Dr. Manfre holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Economics from Claremont Graduate University and an M.B.A. (Finance) from the Drucker School of Management. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance and Taxation at the NYU School of Professional Studies and Associate Professor of Finance at Tennessee State University. He was Visiting Professor of Finance at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School from 2015 to 2022. He worked at S&P Corporate Value Consulting, was a Director at Marshall & Stevens, and is a Partner at Bardi Co. He holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 28 and 79 and NASAA Series 63 and 66. Dr. Manfre is available for retention as a testifying expert in economic-damages matters.
Tristan Roodt
Tristan founded Fero and built its economic-damages practice. His career has been spent quantifying lifetime financial loss in personal-injury litigation — lost earnings, earning capacity, future care and household services — across catastrophic-injury, motor-vehicle and medical-negligence matters. He directs the analytical team that builds every Fero loss calculation. He leads the firm's engagements and is the point of contact for retaining counsel. An actuarial professional and entrepreneur, he founded Fero Consulting LLC.
Zane Heyl, FASSA
A senior actuary with a career spanning life insurance, actuarial consulting and management consulting, with demonstrated superior technical ability. His grounding in mortality, morbidity and long-term financial modelling is the quantitative backbone behind Fero's lifetime loss calculations.
Available to plaintiff and defense counsel nationwide.
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