Charles Bates Email & Phone Number

I am a founding member of Bates White Economic Consulting, a leading provider of economic, financial, and statistical analyses based in Washington, DC. We founded the firm in 1999 with a commitment to bringing together bright minds, investing in their careers, and fostering long-term relationships through trust, respect, and personal and professional integrity, and we continue to be guided by these founding principles. I have more than 25 years of experience in the application of statistics and computer modeling to large complex litigation matters requiring novel quantitative solutions. I’ve testified in a variety of forums, including the US Senate Judiciary Committee, Federal Bankruptcy Court, US Tax Court, California Supreme Court, and arbitration hearings.I am a leading expert on methods of asbestos-liability forecasting, having maintained an ongoing research program for 20 years to improve asbestos liability estimates. I am regularly retained on asbestos liability matters by insurance companies, corporations, and financial creditors’ committees in federal bankruptcy proceedings. Notably, I testified on behalf of the debtor in the bankruptcy proceedings of Garlock Sealing Technologies and The BSA (Boy Scouts). I have published numerous papers on trends and developments in the asbestos litigation environment and have spoken on these topics at national and international forums.Specialties include: Asbestos and mass tort litigation Complex litigation damages estimation Data decision tools and database design/applications Econometrics Financial analysis Forecasting Microsimulation modeling Predictive modeling Product liability estimation Statistical analysis