CRA’s Dr. Zawadi Lemayian was retained by a major national law firm serving as counsel for the owner and operator of a public water system in connection with a class action alleging village-wide lead contamination of the public water supply. The engagement involved assessing the plaintiffs’ expert’s proposed methodology for estimating class wide damages and evaluating its reliability.
Dr. Lemayian submitted an expert report and provided oral testimony identifying several fundamental flaws that undermined the validity and reliability of the plaintiffs’ damages framework, including the omission of key economic factors relevant to damages estimation, structural deficiencies in the modeling approach, and methodological choices that risked producing biased, inconsistent, or incomplete estimates of alleged class wide harm. Based on her analysis, she opined that plaintiffs’ proposed methodology was not suitable for reliably estimating class wide damages. The parties ultimately reached a settlement.
The CRA team supporting Dr. Lemayian included Kevin Cuddy and Michelle Sandoval-Siman.
