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Trucking expert witnesses may testify on trucking safety, commercial motor vehicles, truck maintenance, and related matters. In the news this week, Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems has notified customers and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that its ATR-6 valves installed on as many as 60,000 vehicles may be faulty and cause breaking problems. Many of the vehicles manufactured between Dec. 2, 2010 and Jan. 18, 2012 will be retrofitted and delivery of new vehicles has been postponed.

Read more: http://www.bendix.com/en/.

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Real estate expert witness Michael K. Ryan, President of CastleLyons Corporation, was selected to provide testimony on behalf of the FDIC in proceedings against a dissolved bank. Ryan was asked to share his expertise on a number of matters regarding real estate entitlement, development, and standard of care issues that the case involved.

Read more: http://castlelyons.net/.

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Transportation expert Deborah Hersman, chairwoman of the N.T.S.B., an independent federal agency which promotes traffic safety and investigates accidents, says the concern over cell phone use is increased due to more powerful phones that people can use to e-mail, watch movies and play games.

Every year, new devices are being released. People are tempted to update their Facebook page, they are tempted to tweet, as if sitting at a desk. But they are driving a car.

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Police procedures expert witness Robert F. Thomas Jr. of the Mecklenburg County, NC, Attorney’s Office, testified that sheriff Rudy Torres was justified in using a stun gun twice on Jarrel Gray during an arrest. The expert said “The entire course of action, in my judgment, was wise and prudent.” Gray’s parents area seeking $145M in the wrongful death suit.

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Forensic accounting expert witness Bob Grosnoff says he is “an expert witness in financial fraud cases and I’m usually on the side of claimants. I like to get the bad guys off the street.” When Wealth Strategies Advisory Group invited the expert to investigate their company, Grosnoff uncovered seven tax liens against Vince Annable who runs the company.

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Attorney Robert M. Hall is a former insurance and reinsurance executive and acts as an insurance consultant as well as an arbitrator and mediator of insurance and reinsurance disputes. In HOW REINSURANCE ARBITRATIONS CAN BE FASTER, CHEAPER AND BETTER (REVISTED), he writes:

This is an update of an article which first appeared in 2004 and was intended as an action plan for remedying some of the more significant problems with the reinsurance arbitration process. Unfortunately, this action plan has not progressed very far since then.

Read more: http://www.robertmhall.com/publications.htm.

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As a consultant to the World Bank, patents expert witness Bruce Abramson, JD, PhD, advised the Government of India about the steps necessary to complete the reform of their patent system. He contributed to overall study of India’s knowledge economy, the state of its innovation system, and the further reforms needed for the country to transition into the information age.

Read more: https://www.jurispro.com/BruceAbramsonJDPhD.

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Criminology expert witness Kim Rossmo heads Texas State University’s Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation and is a former member of the Vancouver Police Department. Rossmo recently told the Vancouver Missing Women Inquiry that serial killer Robert Pickton could have been caught earlier if Vancouver police had not “dropped the ball.” Pickton was charged in the murder of twenty-five women.

In addition to assisting in criminal cases and training law enforcement on how to use his methodology in serial property crime investigations, Rossmo is exploring its versatility by applying it to projects ranging from border control to counterterrorism.

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On his website, accident investigation expert witness Christopher Gayner, Expert Reconstruction Company, shares this information:

A federal agency called for a ban on all cellphone use by drivers – the most far-reaching such recommendation to date – saying its decision was based on a decade of investigations into distraction-related accidents, as well as growing concerns that powerful mobile devices are giving drivers even more reasons to look away from the road.

As part of its recommendation, the National Transportation Safety Board is urging states to ban drivers from using hands-free devices, including wireless headsets. No state now outlaws such activity, but the board said that drivers faced serious risks from talking on wireless headsets, just as they do by taking a hand off the wheel to hold a phone to their ear.