This highly-qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in apparel development and sourcing, with an expertise in fabric and garment development and sourcing with a focus on sustainable materials. She earned her BS in economics from Monash University in Australia and completed training in retail business management at Caulfield Institute of Technology, also located in Australia. In Australia, this expert served as the regional director of Country Road and the ...
This highly qualified industrial hygiene expert has experience in exposure assessments, asbestos, silica, beryllium, formaldehyde, respiratory protection, hazardous materials, and confined spaces. He earned his BS in business administration from the University of Wyoming. He is a certified industrial hygienist, hazardous materials manager, safety professional, and safety manager. He has given multiple lectures at the Wyoming Safety and Health Summit, as well as at the ...
This expert earned his BS in civil engineering at Ohio State University and his MBA at the University of Dallas. He is a professional engineer and has worked in roles such as plant manager of Rowe Machinery, senior program director at Raytheon, the director of the Asia-Pacific maritime program and senior director of air force and commercial programs for L-3Harris, as well as vice president of integrated aviation solutions at BAE Systems. He is currently the principal at ...
This highly qualified expert has nearly 60 years of experience as a chemical and mechanical engineer. He has demonstrated experience in a number of areas including: speciality and industrial chemicals, petrochemicals, polymers, fertilizers, phosphoric and sulfuric acid, phosphate, mineral processing, dyestuffs and intermediates, coal and coal chemicals, industrial wastewater treatment, cryogenics, gas liquefaction, refinery units, boilers, utilities, cryogenics, sulfur ...
This expert has been working in consumer electronics and electrical utilities for over 30 years, and has extensive experience with solar panels, electronics manufacturing, data analytics, semiconductor packaging, and portable electronic products. He earned BS and MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Rochester, respectively. He holds 4 patents including in low profile managed memory components and high-density electronic ...
This highly-qualified expert has over 35 years of experience with cryogenic liquefied and gaseous industrial gases. He earned his BS in chemical engineering from Villanova University, graduating magna cum laude. This expert is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Florida and currently holds one patent. He is active in his field as a member of the Compressed Gas Association and the National Fire Protection Association. He spent the majority of his career ...
This expert is an industrial designer with over 50 years of experience in the field. His expertise ranges from retail store planning and product management to exhibits and design management. He earned his BA in industrial design from Pratt Institute and is active in his field as a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. For many years, he served in a retail safety and merchandising capacity. He has also worked ...
This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in the field of technology manufacturing. He received his BS in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University before earning his MBA from the University of Michigan. He is a certified professional engineer and a member of several organizations, including the National Society of Professional Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is active in ...
This health and safety professional has more than three decades of experience in industrial hygiene, occupational exposures, safety, and public health. Throughout his career, this expert has personally conducted over a thousand industrial hygiene evaluations for numerous companies in various fields including engineering, mining, manufacturing, oil & gas, healthcare, environmental, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, food processing, agriculture, and construction. As a ...
This expert gained his MS in public health with a focus on industrial hygiene and safety at the University of Washington. He is a certified industrial hygienist and will soon be certified as a Mold Assessor in Texas. Currently, he works as a senior industrial hygiene consultant win Washington State. Formerly, he served as an industrial hygiene engineer and consultant at Boeing, OR State Accident Insurance Fund, and owned a consulting firm called that was bought by ...
This qualified expert of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Machinery obtained his BS in Mechanical Engineering from Iowa State University and his MA in Management from Regent University. He is a registered Professional Engineer and is certified in SolidWorks, Motion Control and CNC Product Lines, Fire Investigation, Reliability & Maintainability and has 9 Patents. He is currently the President of a Product Manufacturing Firm and the President of an Engineering Consulting....
This highly qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in the chemical and petrochemical industries. He earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University. The expert has worked in academic roles throughout his career, including adjunct professor roles at the University of Michigan and the University of Utah. He has also been very active in industrial positions and held research roles with Dow Chemical Company and John Zink ...
In late March 2021, the massive consolidated case concerning defective 3M combat earplugs lurched forward with a bellwether. This bellwether consolidates three cases (of the MDL’s 229,397 actions) in Florida’s Northern District Court. It’s intended as a harbinger of how…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued a record penalty against glue manufacturing company Chemence, Inc. for its violation of a 2016 order to cease deceptive marketing tactics. Now, the company must pay $1.2 million over product labels falsely claiming…
A federal appellate court in Iowa recently upheld a plaintiff expert witness’s exclusion in a workplace product liability case for their failure to satisfy the requirements of Federal Rules of Evidence 702. The decision in Hirchak v. W.W. Grainger, Inc.,…
During 2012, a client engineering company engaged my services as an industrial safety engineer after an accident had occurred in their factory whereby one of the machine operators had lost one finger due to contact with a high speed revolving blade…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Arizona Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Smilovits v. First Solar Inc. Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 221424 The plaintiffs claimed that once the company revealed the product’s flaws to the public, the…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Blue Cross Blue Shield Ass’n v. GlaxoSmithKline LLC Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 168107 A group of health insurance firms alleges they purchased improperly manufactured…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Arizona Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: In re Bard Ivc Filters Prods. Liab. Litig. Citation: 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 211400 In this medical device MDL, the plaintiffs retain a radiology expert witness.…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Meemic Ins. Co. v. Hewlett-Packard Co. Citation: 717 F. Supp. 2d 752 In this insurance dispute, an electrical engineering expert is tasked with…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Gopalratnam v. Hewlett-Packard Co. Citation: 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40386 Facts The plaintiffs’ son bought an HP laptop that contained a battery pack manufactured by…
Court: United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, Monroe Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Sadler v. Int’l Paper Co. Citation: 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 59422 Facts This case involves alleged airborne pollution released from a paper mill.…
Court: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: C.C. v. Suzuki Mgf. Am. Corp. Citation: 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 137022 Facts This case involves an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) accident. The plaintiff…
Court: United States District Court for the District of New Mexico Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Rivera v. Volvo Cars of North Am., LLC Citation: 2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 179695 Facts A federal diversity personal injury case arose out of a…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, Augusta Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Evanston Ins. Co. v. Xytex Tissue Servs., LLC Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51668 Facts The defendant was a company that stored biological…