Mark A. Gustafson

Education

M.P.P., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; B.A., business economics and political science, University of California, Los Angeles

Summary of Experience

Mr. Gustafson applies his expertise in economics, econometrics, and modeling to litigation, complex business issues, and the analysis of public policy issues. He has worked extensively in the areas of health care, insurance, finance, intellectual property, commercial damages, and class actions.

He has provided deposition and trial testimony relating to retirement benefits and employment compensation, and he has critiqued plaintiffs' proposed damages formula in several class actions. His most recent case work has involved evaluating claims of excessive investment fees in corporate 401(k) defined contribution plans, analyzing health insurance claims to identify instances of inappropriate billing by hospital providers, and auditing risk-pool reconciliations that set the level of at-risk payments to a hospital group and its physician partners. Mr. Gustafson has explored economic issues associated with a wide range of insurance products, including disability, health, life, product liability, and property insurance, as well as variable annuities. Additionally, he has extensive experience assembling and analyzing large, proprietary data sets common in insurance and health care engagements.

Mr. Gustafson is a coauthor of "Use of Statistical Sampling in Litigation" and "Expert Analysis of Class Certification Issues," both in the 5^th Edition of the Litigation Services Handbook. He is also the coauthor of a paper investigating the post-stop actions taken by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department to determine if the observed behavior was consistent with racial profiling.

Prior to joining Analysis Group, Mr. Gustafson was the business manager in Tokyo for an international nonprofit. He also taught economics as a course assistant at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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Selected Cases

• Class Action Sales Practices Litigation Surrounding Vanishing Premium Sales
• Class Action v. Horace Mann Life Insurance et al.
• Colgate Softsoap False Advertising Consumer Class Action
• Confidential Regulatory Matter Involving Alleged Failure to Annuitize Variable Annuities
• ERISA Health Care Litigation Related to Deductibles and Out-of-Pocket Expenses
• In re Managed Care Litigation
• L-3 Communications Integrated Systems v. Lockheed Martin Corporation
• LAPD Pedestrian and Motor Vehicle Stop Data Analyses
• LAPD Racial Profiling Analysis
• Margie Daniel, et al. v. Ford Motor Company
• Paul B. Butler v. Porsche Cars North America, Inc.
• Sargon Enterprises v. University of Southern California
• Securities and Exchange Commission v. Henry Yuen
• U.S. Department of Justice v. Tenet Healthcare Corporation
• Washington State Hospital Association Medicaid Supplemental Payments Matter

Selected Publishing

• Expert Analysis of Class Certification Issues

  Litigation Services Handbook: Sixth Edition
  2017

  Heavner DL, Gustafson M, Simon P, Chorba C

  Class Certification
• Use of Statistical Sampling in Litigation(1)

  Litigation Services Handbook: Sixth Edition
  2017

  Gustafson M, Simon P

  Antitrust & Competition, Commercial Disputes, Damages, Data Science & Statistical Modeling
• Use The Right Model For Auto Defect Suits

  Law360, July 9, 2013
  2013

  Gustafson M, Strombom B

  Class Certification, Damages, Data Science & Statistical Modeling, Valuation
• Combating STAT Abuse

  Law360
  2010

  Gustafson M

  Commercial Disputes, Insurance, Securities, Financial Products & Institutions, Valuation
• Challenges in RIF Analyses

  Law360
  2009

  Sarkar D, Gustafson M

  Data Science & Statistical Modeling, Strategy, Policy & Analytics
• Use of Statistical Sampling in Litigation

  Litigation Services Handbook: The Role of the Financial Expert, 2009 Cumulative Supplement, 4th Edition (March 2009)
  2009

  Gustafson M, Simon P, Weil R

  Antitrust & Competition, Commercial Disputes, Damages, Data Science & Statistical Modeling
• Pedestrian and Motor Vehicle Post-Stop Data Analysis Report

  Report Prepared for City of Los Angeles
  2006

  Alpert G, Becker E, Gustafson M, Meister A, Smith M, Strombom B

  Data Science & Statistical Modeling, Strategy, Policy & Analytics
• Cost Effectiveness of rHuEPO in Oncology

  Recombinant Human Erythropoietin (rhEPO) in Clinical Oncology: Scientific and Clinical Aspects of Anemia in Cancer. M.R. Nowrousian (Ed.), SpringerWien New York, 2002
  2002

  Cremieux P, Dial E, Gustafson M, Sarokhan B, Slavin M

  Health Care

News

• June 01, 2017

  Eight Analysis Group Consultants Contribute to New Handbook on Litigation Services

  Damages, Data Science & Statistical Modeling, Securities, Financial Products & Institutions, Valuation