Sara Fowler sees a solution to the old chestnut of PI multipliers. Sara Fowler is a senior manager at Ernst & Young.
The debate over multipliers in personal injury cases focuses on the investment by a plaintiff of his damages award, in particular the merits of different investments such as equities and index linked government stocks (ILGS). The assumption implicit in the traditional approach to multipliers is that the real rate of return is 4-5 per cent. […]