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Expertise Description: P.E. - Experienced Naval Architect and Marine Engineer with almost thirty years of experience in the industry. Expertise includes: small crafts, fishing vessels, recreational boats, yachts, ferries, shipyard productivity and claims, and offshore oil exploration. Additional areas of expertise include: recreational boat accidents including outboard motor steering failures, PWC accidents, outboard motor support failures, off-throttle steering, boat collisions and allisions, falls aboard and overboard, high speed craft, primary and secondary... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Consulting expert in marine surveying and risk assessment with almost 50 years experience in the field. Areas of expertise include: marine operations in the offshore oil and gas industry; admiralty; accidents involving dock, shipboard, and offshore cranes; anchor-handling, towing, and mooring incidents; swing rope and personnel basket worker transfer accidents; pipeline damage; cargo and cargo container damage; hurricane and heavy weather damage; mooring system failures; anchor-handling operational failures; towing system... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Over 11 years consulting as an expert in the field of Independent Marine surveying and Legal Liability. Served 20 years as a U.S. Coastal Guard Officer involved in commercial vessel regulations, inspections, and accident investigations. Fluent in Coast Guard laws, regulation, and policy. Society of Accredited Marines (SAMS). American Boat & Yacht Council (ABYC). National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Established as an expert witness in civil and criminal litigation for... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Experience in maritime issues. Areas of expertise include: boat, marine and ship systems; marine maintenance, repair and safety; boating accident reconstruction and investigation; maritime and admiralty litigation; and yacht delivery. Operated vessels up to 225 feet and 1231 gross tons... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Ph.D., Ed.D. - Experienced in accident reconstruction, automotive repair fraud, materials handling science, machinery and accidents involving motorcycles, ATVs, automobiles, trucks, RVs, heavy equipment (tractors, farm machinery, bulldozers, etc.), towing, tire-related, marine, scooters, bicycles and skiing, as well as education issues. Expertise also includes auto part counterfeit detection as well as aircraft, marine, engine, and general manufacturing parts counterfeits. Expert witness consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: M.S., P.E. - Mechanical engineer, marine engineer, and naval architect, specializing in boating / shipping issues related to engineering. Expertise includes: Amphibious Craft; Anchoring / Mooring; Barges; Bulk Carriers; Cargo Gear; Cargo Vessels; Collisions / Allisions; Containerships; Cranes; Dredging; Dynamic Instability; High Speed Boats; Marine Accidents; Marine Equipment; Offshore Oil Rigs; Passenger Vessels; Personal Watercraft; Pipelines; Pleasure Boats; Rigging; Salvage Operations; Securing / Stowage; Tankers; Towing; Tugboats; and Unseaworthiness. Professional... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: P.E. - Corrosion engineer and corrosion specialist highly experienced in the areas of marine corrosion, cathodic protection, corrosion / metallurgical failure analysis, designing for corrosion control and facilities/utilities corrosion control. Past experience includes facilitating the application of metallurgical and corrosion technology to the Naval Shore Establishment through the development of criteria for the application of technology for design, construction, operation and maintenance of facilities and equipment, as well as, through... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: B.A., LL.M., J.D. - Practicing attorney specializing in transportation, aviation, and maritime law and policy. Expertise includes: cargo (including loss and damage); transportation (trucking, air freight, boat); freight forwarding; cargo, hull, and marine insurance; international / domestic trade; air carrier liability litigation; export management; logistics; and recreational boating. Multiple publications. Invited lecturer. He has substantial experience in the areas of trade and transportation law, cargo loss and damage, carrier and... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Consulting expert with more than 40 years of wide-ranging experience in the insurance industry. Expertise includes: insurance, risk management, insurance fraud, property insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, excess and surplus lines insurance, homeowners insurance, and workers compensation. Additional expertise in aviation insurance, marine insurance, yacht insurance, liability insurance, errors and omissions insurance, bad faith, insurance claims, excess and umbrella insurance, offshore insurance, duty of care insurance, and custom and practice... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Experienced in naval architecture including surface propulsion applications, sea trials & analysis of high speed amphibious vehicles, tank testing of propulsion systems, and vessel motion analysis. Has provided expert consultation in the areas of collision reconstruction, stern drive failures, yacht sinking, fishing vessel capsizing, and injury resulting from vessel motions, propeller contact, and other causes... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: S.A.M.S., N.A.M.S., I.A.M.I. - Consulting expert specializing in marine survey / investigation. Has more than thirty-five years of experience as a commercial vessel owner / operator. Expertise includes: condition and valuation of vessels, trip and tow surveys, salvage and recovery, offshore and onshore facilities / construction, heavy lifts, anchor handling, deep water moorings, ships management systems, oil spill response, recovery, and containment, Hazardous Materials (H.A.Z.M.A.T.), tank barges, ship handling, insurance... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: F.C.I., C.F.E.I., C.F.I.I., C.C.D.I. - Fire and explosion investigator. Expert in determining the origin and cause of fires and explosions with over 40 years experience and 28 years as an expert witness in 254 trials. Specialized expertise in marine investigations, both surface and subsurface. Has the experience and equipment, (Side Scan Sonar and ROV's) for determining the origin and cause of fires and explosions on burned sunken vessels, with complete... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Research oceanographer and professor, specializing in coastal engineering. Expertise includes: beach nourishment; coastal development / engineering / processes; data analysis; environmental monitoring; estuarian dynamics; hydrology; kelp reefs; lagoons; maritime engineering; nearshore oceanography; numerical modeling; offshore structure design; reefs; shoreline changes; simulations; structural dynamics analysis; tsunamis; water quality monitoring; wave measurements and climate cycles; and wetlands restoration. Bi-lingual. Extensive publications and reports. Expert witness consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: C.F.I. - Practicing expert in fire, fire suppression, arson, and related matters, with more than 30-years of experience in the field, investigating over 3,000 fire incidents. Expertise includes: arson; boat / marine fires; computer modeling; electrical engineering; evidence collection; fire cause / origin; fire investigations; fire prevention; fire safety; fire science; forensic studies; mechanical engineering; and wildland fires. Certified Fire Inspector (C.F.I.). Teacher of fire science topics. Prior expert witness... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: CPCU - A nationally recognized expert in the insurance and risk management fields. His proficiency is the result of more than 30 years of experience as an underwriter, retail broker, program manager, consultant and expert witness. His expertise includes insurance broker operations and standard of care, marketing in the United States, London, Europe and Bermuda, alternative risk financing techniques, program structure, and coverage analysis; California Brokers License and C.P.C.U. (Chartered... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Experienced in insurance claim, coverage, and bad faith. Over 14 years claim experience, from claim rep to supervisor. More than 25 years as coverage and bad faith defense lawyer with 24 published and unpublished appellate cases. Qualified trial testimony in over 100 trials involving first and third party claims, underwriting, legal malpractice, coverage, rescission, reformation, cancellation coverage, and advice of counsel. Testimony for both policy holders and insurance companies... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Consulting expert with more than 23 years experience in the field of Insurance, including combined insurance brokerage and executive senior corporate counsel experience. Over 12 years executive management experience with international, large regional, and financial institution-owned insurance brokerages. More than 11 year senior in-house litigation case management experience handling multiple billions of dollars in case exposures in nearly every state and throughout the world for two of the largest international... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: C.L.U. – Consulting expert with more than 30 years experience in the insurance industry (Property, Casualty and Life/Health insurances) with special emphasis on company agency / company disputes, professional responsibility issues, insurance practice and standards, and insurance company responsibility for underwriting and claims processing; standard of care; reasonable care and diligence; and special relationships. Developed courses as an insurance educator and created the first insurance Bachelor of Science degree with... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Ph.D., CSP, PE - Mechanical engineer and safety professional experienced in the design of filters, swimming pools, marine fish / mammal areas, commercial and industrial filtration / water treatment systems, and analysis and reconstruction of aquatic accidents (spas, swimming pools, and natural bodies of water) involving codes and standards, construction, diving, drowning, slides, suction entrapment, lighting, operations, signage, and slips, trips and falls. Certified Safety Professional (CSP). Ph.D. in Engineering... » Read Complete Profile
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Expertise Description: Course director and marine diving technology professor with more than 30 years experience in the field of diving. Expertise includes: commercial diver training; commercial diving; recreational diver training; diving medicine; diving physics; diving physiology; rescue diver training; ROVs (remote operated vehicles); manned submersibles; and ADS (atmospheric diving suit) systems. Over 20 years expert witness experience. Consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony... » Read Complete Profile

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