Update to Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury andWrongful Death Litigation: The State of Utah
Abstract Current changes to personal injury and wrongful death litigation in the state of Utah.
Assessing Economic Damages in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Litigation: The State of Idaho
In this article, the authors present the standard methodology and the supporting legal framework for estimating economic damages in personal injury and wrongful death cases in Idaho. The paper is organized as follows. In Part II, the elements of damages and issues involved in estimating those damages in personal injury litigation are presented. A discussion of key cases and relevant jury instructions are included. Economic damage issues with respect to wrongful death actions are covered in Part III. Next, Idaho court rules and case law, with respect to expert testimony, are reviewed. Summary remarks are included in the final section. II. Personal Injury Actions
Remotely-Piloted Helicopter Citrus Yield Map Estimation
A remotely-piloted Gas Xcell mini-helicopter with GPS, wireless Ethernet, and a machinevision system was flown over orange trees to take overhead images. The individual tree images were processed to estimate the number of orange pixels in the images. The fruit yield of individualtrees at harvest a month later had an r-squared value of 0.373 with the number of orange pixels onthe irrigated tree images. While it was demonstrated that a remotely-piloted mini-helicopter could beused to acquire useful overhead images of citrus trees, substantial further research is needed toimprove the accuracy of estimates of individual tree yields or health.