Suitability Experts
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: Ph.D. - Consulting scientific expert whose forensic work has included cases involving fraud, material suitability, and strength loss allegations in fire retardant treated wood products such as lumber, utility poles, plywood, and Copper Chrome Arsenate (CCA) treated timber. In-depth litigation support extending to field investigations, research, detailed reports, validated opinions, and trial/deposition testimony concerning biocides (pressure/non-pressure), formulation development, treatment processes, wood chemistry, standardized testing, basic science, wood adhesives, code and... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: M.B.A., S.P.H.R. - Consulting expert specialized in Human Resources and Vocational Rehabilitation. Areas of expertise include Americans with Disabilities Act (A.D.A.), Family Medical Leave Act (F.M.L.A.), California Family Rights Act (C.F.R.A.), document examiner, employment, Fair Employment Housing Act (F.E.H.A.), labor law, management, personnel, policy procedures, sexual harassment, workers compensation, and wrongful termination. Expertise also includes evaluating the adequacy of personnel policies; identifying and documenting employee physical suitability for work; establishing... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: Consulting expert specialized in security arbitration with more than 40 years in the field. Experience includes: mutual funds, variable annuities, 72T, suitability and fiduciary duty, supervision, churning, asset allocation, misuse of margin, unauthorized trading, hedge funds, and analysis cases. Has been retained and testified in over 100 cases. One of only a few experts that has been retained by the NYSE Enforcement division (now merged into FINRA). Has also consulted... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: F.A.C.F.E., D.A.B.F.E., D.A.B.F.E.T. - Experienced in commercial flooring issues for over 35 years. Areas of expertise include current and future material degradation and projected replacement costs, installation standards, concrete additives, and moisture vapor. All flooring material including wood, carpet, stone and ceramic, vinyl, etc. Also covers slip, trip and fall causation. Prior expert witness experience. Consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: Experienced in securities and investments. Has more than twenty years of experience at investment firms and more than fifteen years of experience as a consultant and an expert witness. Has qualified as an arbitrator with the National Association of Securities Dealers (N.A.S.D.), the New York Stock Exchange (N.Y.S.E.), the Pacific Stock Exchange (P.S.E.), and the American Arbitration Association (A.A.A.). Prior expert witness experience. Consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: MBA, CLU, AEP – Consulting expert in Insurance and Finance with more than 25 years experience in the field. Expertise includes: standard of care involving representations, presentations, sales and placement of life insurance products by licensed agents and Registered Representatives (who sell life and annuity products qualifying as “securities”); supervision issues of broker dealers and their registered representatives; suitability issues surrounding the sale of securities by registered representatives; assessing and... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: Experienced in all aspects of the financial services industry with unique and unparalleled hands on experience in hedge funds, mutual funds, and investment management. Has been working on Wall Street for more than 15 years and is fluent in aspects of retail and institutional brokerage, the securities markets, and fixed income and equity securities. Throughout his extensive career, he has worked in institutional brokerage, money management, and mutual fund and... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: Former SEC Enforcement attorney that has served as an expert witness in various matters involving securities regulation and broker-dealer compliance and supervision. Has testified on matters involving private placements including those involving real estate-based investments such as TICs. Expertise includes: major investments frauds, systemic issues in compliance and supervision, and the underlying consideration and policy concerns applicable in investment disputes. Experienced in: California securities laws and/or Finra rules; ponzi schemes... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: Consulting expert with over 30 years experience in the Insurance industry. Provided services in all insurance matters. Owned and operated major insurance brokerages and currently teaching insurance for the California Department of Insurance Continuing Education and Licensing. Expertise includes Agency operations, agent due care, bad faith, due diligence, underwriting and risk analysis, right of subrogation, E&O matters, commercial underwriting, workers compensation, placing and binding coverage, agency loss ratio, life and... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: Consulting expert with more than 20 years experience in the life insurance and annuity industry. Insurance areas include term life, whole life, universal life, variable life, indexed universal life, and all aspects of life insurance disputes. Annuity fields consist of fixed annuities, indexed annuities, and variable annuities. Expertise further includes contestability, suitability, misrepresentation, fraud, bad faith, claims, supervision, and other life insurance litigation issues. Highly knowledgeable about product disclosure and... » Read Complete Profile
Select Expert Click checkbox to include in your expert selection.
Expertise Description: Consulting expert in corporate finance and securities. Expertise includes: corporate governance; fiduciary duty of officers, directors, and majority shareholders; legal malpractice of lawyers; merger and acquisition issues; and violations of securities laws. More than 20 years expert witness experience. Consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony... » Read Complete Profile
