National Forensic Economics Firm Expands Florida Operation

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Vocational Economics, Inc. (VEI), a national consulting firm specializing in defining economic damages, announces the expansion of its Tampa, Florida, operation with the addition of Sara A. Ford, MRC and Ronald E. Missun, Ph.D. 

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Sara A. Ford, MRC joined VEI in 2006.  She has an undergraduate degree in Economics and a Master's Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and serves as vocational economic analyst.  She provides vocational and economic testimony specific to earning capacity and worklife expectancy for persons with a disability.  Her experience includes work on cases including traumatic brain injury, orthopedic injuries, psychological impairment, and union workers. 

Senior Labor Economist, Ronald E. Missun, Ph.D. provides forensic economic testimony in a variety of cases involving total and permanent partial disability as well as employment related matters.  He has extensive experience in cases involving workers in the construction trades.  Over his fifteen year tenure with VEI, Dr. Missun has provided testimony in over twenty-five states, including Florida.     

In addition to Ms. Ford and Dr. Missun; VEI co-founder, Anthony M. Gamboa, Jr., Ph.D., MBA serves in VEI's second Florida location in Palm Beach Gardens.  Dr. Gamboa is one of the nation's leading vocational economic analysts.  He has worked for over thirty-five years as a vocational counselor, researcher, tenured professor at the University of Louisville, vocational expert with the Department of Health and Human Services, and vocational economic analyst.  Dr. Gamboa pioneered work in the area of assessing loss of earning capacity for infants, children, and persons with mild traumatic brain injury.  In addition, he developed the first worklife expectancy tables for persons with a disability.  The Gamboa Gibson Worklife Expectancy Tables, published by TrialGuides, LLC, is in its seventh revision. 

VEI was first in the nation to introduce the concept of reduced worklife expectancy as a function of disability.  Vocational economic analysts, rehabilitation experts, economists, nurses, and certified public accountants form a team of experts capable of defining a full range of economic damages.  VEI's experts have provided testimony before state and federal courts in every state.  Through use of well-credentialed experts, backed by scientific research and data, VEI offers a strong foundation for the demonstration of economic damages as a result of death, disability, or loss of employment.

SOURCE Vocational Economics, Inc.