When You Need to Know

Identifying the causes of delays, cost overruns, design errors, and performance failures; investigating structural, materials, and equipment failures, as well as operational damage and construction accidents; evaluating worker injuries.

Evaluating materials, manufacturing, and performance challenges; determining the patentable qualities of products; assessing safety and intended use messaging; studying the health impacts of product issues; analyzing product defects; advising on recall decisions.

Evaluating battery, coding, materials, and electrical engineering failures; assessing contract performance and intellectual property issues; providing understanding for product safety challenges.

Assessing health benefits or safety concerns of ingredients or formulations; identifying sources and causes of contamination; analyzing packaging or manufacturing failures.

Assessing the impact of regulations on public health, the environment, and industry; appraising contract performance; supporting environmental assessments.

Analyzing high-tech intellectual property, such as software, circuits, and embedded systems; assessing system performance; evaluating security breaches.

Evaluating product function for intellectual property and patent disputes; assessing product performance for contract disputes and acquisitions; providing root cause analyses for insurance claims and loss management disputes; conducting failure analysis for international arbitration and product liability, including mass tort.

Evaluating accidents, injuries, and liability matters; assessing operating instructions and warning labels.

Investigating product liability and accident matters; assessing data for class action disputes; analyzing incidents with ADAS; evaluating component failures.

Investigating equipment failures; evaluating slope and soil stability, including high-wall, tailings, and open pits; assessing worker injury and safety issues; analyzing mine production metrics and chemical assays to provide insights into contract disputes.

Conducting loss of containment investigations; analyzing process safety, and infrastructure, equipment, and pipeline failures; assessing production and construction performance for contract disputes; evaluating alleged environmental damage; investigating worker safety incidents.

Investigating large loss fires and explosions; evaluating corrosion or incorrect metallurgy damage; analyzing pipelines and piping systems failures; determining the causes of worker injuries; assessing the contributing factors, fate and transport, and severity of pollution; studying health impacts of chemicals released into the environment.

Analyzing the causes of failures in infrastructure, equipment and pipelines; identifying causes and consequences of wildfires; assessing environmental damage and impacts to human health; analyzing gas line and regulator failures; investigating worker injuries; evaluating materials for infrastructure failures.

Objective, evidence-based insights for claimants, respondents, or arbitration panels.

Independent, evidence-based expertise for construction disputes.

Assess relationships between natural resource attributes and monetary damages.

Objective insights on infringement, domestic industry, and patent validity for high stakes ITC Section 337 investigations.

Mechanical engineering support and testimony for litigation, international arbitration, mediation, and insurance.

Evidence-based scientific insights and expert witness support for industrial fires and explosions, oil and chemical spills, and equipment failures.

Support for complex disputes, from intellectual property and patent infringement to hospital fires and product damage.

Guidance and support navigating CPSIA regulatory requirements.