Collision analysis expert witnesses may opine regarding accident reconstruction, crashworthiness, collision analysis, and related topics. Here, the Accident Reconstruction Network reports: General Motors Co is recalling 322,409 model year 2009 and 2010 Chevrolet Impala sedans because front seat belts may not be properly anchored, the automaker and federal regulators said…
In What is Accident Reconstruction? Dr. Alexander Zhukov, M. Eng., Ph.D., and accident reconstruction expert witness writes: Accident Reconstruction is a scientific attempt to determine how a traffic accident occurred. It is a procedure by which the circumstances of a traffic collision are proven or estimated by working backward from…
In The Second Coming Of Healthcare Insurance, insurance expert witness Stephen George, MBA-HA, writes: The business of health care has always been about financing predictable costs. America’s success has always been about her ability to adapt. Adapting to soaring insurance costs is expensive for consumers. In the past, insurance plans…
Two groundwater expert witnesses in the first McCullom Lake, IL, brain cancer trial will laid out for the jury last week how they allege industrial pollution reached and sickened village residents. Plaintiffs’attorney Aaron Freiwald called groundwater expert Charles Andrews to explain his theory that groundwater contaminated with vinyl chloride traveled…
Periodic payment judgments expert witnesses may opine on personal injury settlements, workers compensation case settlements, and wrongful death suit settlements, as well as related issues. A structured settlement may be defined as a court granted contract between a plaintiff as well as a defendant which pays off some amount of…
Structured settlement expert witnesses may opine on personal injury settlements, workers compensation case settlements, and wrongful death suit settlements, as well as related issues. A structured settlement may be defined as a court granted contract between a plaintiff as well as a defendant which pays off some amount of money…
In Numerical methods with experimental soil response in predicting vibrations from dynamic sources, soil structure expert witness Mark Svinkin writes: The suggested methods for predicting soil and building vibrations are founded on utilization of the impulse response functions technique for predicting complete vibration records on existing soils, buildings and equipment…
In Numerical methods with experimental soil response in predicting vibrations from dynamic sources, soil expert witness Mark Svinkin writes: Construction and industrial dynamic sources, such as pile driving and foundations for impact machines, generate elastic waves in soil which may adversely affect surrounding buildings and sensitive instruments (Targets). The effects…
The trial of former Richwood, Louisiana, Mayor Edward L. Harris began this week. Harris, who was elected last Saturday to the town’s Board of Aldermen, is charged with one count of malfeasance in office. He is accused of illegally writing more than $70,000 in checks to himself and other employees…
In Identifying the Source of a Power Surge, industrial machinery expert witness Mamoon Alyah, P.E., answers the question “Is it possible to differentiate between lightning related surges and artificially generated electrical surges?” ..If equipment damages consist of failed modems, network cards, TV tuners or other non-power related components, then the…