509 U.S. at 592-95, 113 S.Ct. 2786; Paoli II, 35 F.3d at 748 n. 18 (“Arguably, [third-party estimates] that an expert relies on are not his underlying data, but rather the data that went into the [third-party estimates] in the first place are his underlying data.”). Plaintiffs contend that DeRamus’s reliance on the SBP estimates was appropriate because a company’s internal financial projections, like those in the SBP, are regularly and reasonably relied upon by economists in formulating opinions regarding a company’s performance in an offense-free world. Plaintiffs are certainly correct that “internal projections for future growth” often serve as legitimate bases for expert opinions. See LePage’s, 324 F.3d at 165; Autowest, Inc. v. Peugeot, Inc., 434 F.2d 556, 566 (2d Cir.1970) (<HOLDING>). Businesses are generally well-informed about
holding that the victims prior videotaped testimony from a preliminary hearing was admissible as testimony at trial where the victim was unavailable to testify holding that the admission of expert testimony was prejudicial where the testimony was pervasive holding a proffer of testimony is required to preserve the issue of whether testimony was properly excluded by the trial judge and an appellate court will not consider error alleged in the exclusion of testimony unless the record on appeal shows fairly what the excluded testimony would have been holding future dangerousness expert testimony to be admissible holding that damages testimony was admissible because the financial projections on which the testimony was based were the product of deliberation by experienced businessmen charting their future course