On May 26, 2016, plaintiff’s decedent Iana Kasian, 30, was discovered dead in the bedroom of the West Hollywood apartment that she shared with Blake Leibel. Her body was discovered after a standoff between Leibel and the police. Leibel was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, aggravated mayhem and torture of Kasian, who had given birth to their daughter, plaintiff Diana Kasian, a few weeks before her death, on May 3, 2016. Leibel was ultimate convicted of the criminal homicide in June 2018. The decedent’s mother, Olga Kasian, acting individually, as Diana’s guardian ad litem and as the successor in interest of the decedent’s estate, sued Leibel. Leibel was not represented and elected not to participate in the trial. The court made its findings, confirming both, and the matter proceeded as an uncontested bench trial., Iana Kasian was tortured, mutilated and ultimately killed by Leibel over the course of several hours sometime between May 24 and May 26, 2016. Kasian’s cause of death was ultimately ruled to be comprehensive exsanguination. Plaintiffs’ counsel contended that Kasian lived for a prolonged period of time after Leibel began inflicting the gruesome trauma and that Kasian fought back against her assailant. Plaintiffs’ counsel noted that Iana Kasian was an educated, industrious and ambitious woman with a facility for languages who held the goal of becoming an interpreter after arriving in the United States. The decedent’s mother, Olga Kasian, who was 60 at the time of her daughter’s death, claimed that she is now raising her granddaughter, Diana, who turns 3 in May 2019, the way Iana Kasian would have wanted and that they now live in Ukraine. The plaintiffs’ expert vocational analyst testified as to the measure of the loss of financial support to be sustained by Diana over her lifetime. The decedent’s family sought a survivorship action as well as recovery of wrongful death damages. They also sought recovery of $10 million in punitive damages. For purpose of supporting the plaintiffs’ punitive damages claim, the plaintiffs’ expert forensic economist testified as to the nature of Leibel’s assets and finances in his possession at and around the time of the murder.