On behalf of the Settling Claimants (California electric and gas utilities, Western states, and California class consumers) in the $1.6 billion natural gas antitrust settlement with El Paso Corporation and its subsidiaries, quantified both the damages sustained and the settlement consideration to be allocated to each major settling claimant group, taking into account both the direct overpayment for natural gas and the indirect effect of higher natural gas costs on the market price of electricity in calculating damages.