Hristina Bojadzieva Bartlett

Principal
Hristina Bojadzieva Bartlett

Education

M.B.A., finance and accounting, UCLA Anderson School of Management; B.A., economics, Smith College

Summary of Experience

Ms. Bartlett specializes in the analysis of damages, valuation, and class certification issues in complex litigation and arbitration, with particular expertise in privacy and data security, health care, and financial disputes. She has more than two decades of experience applying financial, accounting, and statistical analyses to questions in health care, insurance, labor and employment, privacy and data security, finance, intellectual property, and commercial disputes. Her work frequently involves the analysis of large and complex financial, transactional, and claims datasets.

Ms. Bartlett is an experienced expert witness; she has served as an expert in dozens of matters and has testified at deposition, trial, and arbitration. She has worked on more than three dozen class actions across a range of industries, addressing damages and economic issues relevant to class certification. In her privacy and cybersecurity work, she has evaluated unjust enrichment, restitution, compensatory and statutory damages, ascertainability, and the feasibility of assessing economic harm and damages on a class-wide basis. In health care matters, she has analyzed medical claims data, provider billing practices, insurance claim denials, health care payment rates, and quality of services. Her work includes calculating damages in health care disputes, including in false claims act matters and out-of-network disputes. She has evaluated the reasonable value of medical services and assessed the financial implications of billing, coding, and medical necessity issues. In finance and securities matters, she has conducted accounting and forensic investigations, solvency assessments, analyses of financial transactions and payment records, and evaluations of investments, investment fees, and investment suitability.

Ms. Bartlett’s writing has been published by the American Bar Association and Law360. She is a CFA charterholder and holds the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) credential.