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PhD, Economics, University of Rochester; MA, Economics, University of Rochester; BA, Economics and Mathematics, University of California, San Diego; Advanced Seminar in Pharmacoeconomics, Harvard School of Public Health
Charles E. Bates is a founding member of Bates White, LLC. Dr. Bates has extensive experience in statistics, econometric modeling, and economic analysis. He specializes in the application of statistics and computer modeling to economic and financial issues. Dr. Bates has more than 20 years of experience and provides clients with a wide range of litigation and commercial consulting services, including expert testimony and guidance on economic and statistical issues.
Dr. Bates is a recognized advisor on asbestos-related matters and an expert on asbestos forecasting methods. He is regularly retained as an expert in estimating asbestos liability expenditures on behalf of insurance companies, corporations, and financial creditors’ committees in federal bankruptcy proceedings. Dr. Bates has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and Federal Bankruptcy Court and he often speaks at national and international forums on the asbestos litigation environment and estimation issues.
Areas of expertise
Spotlights
Events
Charley Bates to participate in the panel discussion “News
from the Front: Current Litigation Trends that are Impacting Asbestos Plaintiffs, Defendants & Insurers” at
Perrin Conferences Asbestos Litigation Conference
Charles E. Bates and Charles H. Mullin to participate in a Roundtable Discussion at
HB Litigation Conferences Emerging Trends in Asbestos Litigation conference
Testimony
Holtz-Eakin testimony summary document
Bates White's response to the CBO letter
Oral testimony from Senate Judiciary Committee
...all testimony
Rebuttal to Navigant's critique of Bates White's study
Study on Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act
...latest testimony only
Papers
Charles E. Bates, Charles H. Mullin, and Marc C. Scarcella, “The
Claiming Game,” Mealey’s Litigation Report: Asbestos
The Naming Game
State of the Asbestos Litigation Environment
...all papers
Show Me The Money
The Bankruptcy Wave of 2000—Companies Sunk by an Ocean of Recruited Asbestos Claims
Having Your Tort And Eating It Too?
...latest papers only
Presentations
Current Litigation Trends that are Impacting Asbestos Plaintiffs, Defendants, & Insurers
Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution (FAIR) Act
Press Releases
Charles Bates discusses the potential for trust money to affect future settlements at Mealey’s conference
Charles Bates and Charles Mullin discuss developments in
liability forecasting and claims resolution at Mealey’s Asbestos Bankruptcy Conference
Beyond the era of mass recruitment and bankruptcies: new strategies to evaluate
and resolve asbestos claims, Bates White’s Charles Bates advises at Mealey’s Asbestos Conference
...all press releases
Bates White President and Senior
Partner, Charles Bates, to speak on asbestos liability estimations at
Mealey’s Asbestos Bankruptcy Conference
Dr. Charles Bates to deliver keynote
address at Mealey’s International Asbestos Conference
Dr. Charles Bates speaks at Mealey’s
Asbestos Bankruptcy Conference
Bates White analysis cited as the FAIR Act is blocked in Senate procedural
vote
Bates White finds $90 billion dollar mistake in
Congressional Budget Office’s cost estimate of FAIR Act
Dr.
Charles Bates to speak on asbestos litigation reform legislation
...latest press releases only