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Child sexual assault expert witness Tara Healy testified in the case against four 12 and 13 year old New York defendants. Healy is the sexual assault forensic examiner for Good Samaritan Hospital, Ramapo, NY, and examined the 14 year old girl. Rockland County Court Judge Sherri Eisenpress is presiding.

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In Construction Process Can Lead to Defects, construction expert witness Michael S. Poles, GC, CM, RCI, DABFET, ACFE, writes on the complex process involved in a building project:

When relative to construction claims, the word defect also equates to financial disaster when it reaches litigation.

The process that it takes to construct any building project is an extremely complex process. It is replete with architects, engineers, professional societies and associations, manufacturers and suppliers, building officials, general contractors, specialty contractors, and a virtual army of labor which lends itself to numerous volumes, many years of education, and specialized training.

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Forensic pathology expert witness Dr. Mary Case testified in the murder case against Drew Peterson. Dr. Case is a professor in the Saint Louis University School of Medicine Department of Pathology specializing in adult head trauma as well as the Chief Medical Examiner of St. Louis County, Mo. She testified that the injuries Kathleen Savio, Peterson’s third wife, suffered were not consistent with falling in her bathtub.

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Fisker Automotvie Inc. has hired an independent fire expert to investigate the second fire in a Fisker Karma. The first electric car caught fire in the owner’s garage and burned the Texas house down. The second sedan caught fire in California while not being charged and it appears the fire did not begin in the battery. Fisker Automotive was started in 2007 by Henrik Fisker and Bernhard Koehler.

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Patents expert witnesses are qualified to testify on software patents, invention patents, and international patents, as well as related issues. In The Foreman’s Aha Moment in Apple v. Samsung Was Based on Misunderstanding Prior Art, Groklaw discusses how the Apple v. Samsung jury reached their verdict.

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120828225612963

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Trucking expert witnesses may write reports and testify on the Department of Transportation, truck driver qualifications, and federal motor vehicle safety standards, as well as related issues.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will be working on 29 new rules over the next two years which include one regarding electronic logging devices.

Read more: http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/

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In Buying a Foreclosure? Watch Out for These 5 Landmines, residential real estate expert Brendon DeSimone writes for Zillowblog on what to expect in a foreclosure sale. Mr. DeSimone is a realtor & HGTV real estate expert who has collaborated on multiple real estate books. and his expert advice is regularly sought out by print, online and television media outlets like FOX News, CNBC and Forbes.

Read more: http://www.zillow.com/blog/.

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In Report Writing and Opinion Terminology, document examination expert witness Ronald N. Morris writes:

REPORT FORMAT The FDE uses a report format he is comfortable with, or one established by the laboratory in which he works. No one format is the only correct and accepted one to use. However, whatever format is used it should incorporate the following basic elements:

A. Questioned: A clearly written, and complete description of all the questioned documents submitted for examination.

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In Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Hospitality Industry hospitality expert witness Maurice Robinson writes on arbitration:

Arbitration is a well-established form of dispute resolution that provides the parties with a final and legally binding decision. The decision is enforceable by a court of law typically after only a very limited review and may not be appealed except under very limited circumstances. Occasionally, the parties may agree to a non-binding arbitration, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

For years arbitration was viewed as an effective alternative to litigation and trial through the court system only in certain types of disputes, such as construction and design, labor and employment, disagreements over the purchase and sale of residential real property, consumer stock brokerage, and medical care. Early on, arbitration was pushed primarily by certain industries, such as stock brokers, architects, construction professionals, labor unions and hospitals, who perceived arbitration as an effective alternative to trial for a variety of reasons: they had a large number of lawsuits largely involving repetitive, cookie-cutter issues; they wanted to achieve some uniformity of result; they wanted confidentiality to the extent possible; and they wanted their disputes to be “tried” by an arbitrator with industry savvy, if not industry expertise.