This highly-qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in travel, including the management of large corporate retail travel agency sales and service teams, tour operation, standard of care, and duty to warn. She has held a variety of roles at AAA surrounding travel arrangements including travel arrangements for corporate and independent domestic and international travel. She is currently the president of a firm that consults in travel agency and tourism-related needs....
This ground transportation expert has been running his own transportation services business since 2001. He serves primarily as a consultant for groups that are purchasing transportation services and as an independent representative for over 36 ground transportation suppliers. He represents fleets that include 15-passenger vans, 25-passenger mini-coaches, motor-coaches, and smaller vans/trucks. He is highly experienced in ground transportation for traveling groups and has ...
This highly experienced climbing, mountaineering and hiking expert is an accomplished guide with experience in numerous locations including the Cascades of Washington State, the BC Coast Range, Nevada's Red Rock Canyon, the Alaska Range, California's Joshua Tree National Park and Eastern Sierra, as well as in the Enchanted Rocks of Texas. He has served as an American Alpine Institute guide trainer since 2006 and Director of Field Operations. He is currently the head ...
This highly qualified expert has over 20 years of experience in the hotel industry. His hotel safety and maintenance experience includes 10 years with Marriott Hotels, Resorts, and Suites in various management positions. This expert was on the opening management team of the San Francisco Marriott, a 1500-room convention hotel. He was honored with the Director of Services of the Year award, Northwest Region. He later moved to the Marriott regional office in San Ramon, ...
This expert has over 30 years of experience in the hospitality and restaurant industry. His experience includes positions at convention hotels in Los Angeles and Washington D.C., as well as management with fortune 500 restaurant companies in major cities throughout the country. He specializes in restaurant and hotel openings and consulting, as well as restaurant operations including safety and management. He currently serves as Associate Professor of Hospitality ...
This seasoned expert is certified and licensed to inspect amusement rides. He has certifications in Amusement Device Inspection and Amusement Ride Inspection as well as experience in premises liability. He is a member of numerous professional organizations including the American Society of Safety Engineers and the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions. For the past 35 years he has worked as a Safety Consultant for a private consulting company where ...
On November 5, 2020, an Airbnb host filed a proposed class action against the short-term rental company in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiff, Anthony Farmer, claims Airbnb took actions concerning reservation cancellations during…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Arizona Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Conlon Group Ariz., LLC v. CNL Resort Biltmore Real Estate, Inc. Citation: 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 69299 The plaintiff claimed that the defendant capping villa revenue…
Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Rome Division Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: City of Rome v. Hotels.com, L.P. Citation: 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 198879 The defendants retained a hospitality expert witness who opined on…
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: Cosmo v. Carnival Corp Citation: 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 179587 This case involves a passenger injury that occurred on a Carnival cruise ship in August…
This case involves a ‘duck boat’ accident in South Carolina. Before leaving the dock, the tour group was told that the boat would remain in designated “no-wake zones” to avoid choppy waters. About 40 minutes into the tour, the boat…
This case involves a Hawaiian franchise tour company with a variety of amphibious ‘duck boat’ tour vehicles. On the day of the incident, the tour operator was attempting to cross the road when the axial component of the vehicle failed, preventing…
This case involves a male journalist who went to a local facility to receive immunizations before traveling abroad for work. A senior member of the facility staff mistakingly administered an anthrax vaccine and allegedly administered a significantly larger dose than…
This case involves a male patient in his late 40s with a past medical history significant for ulcerative colitis, for which the man had been taking immunosuppressive drugs under the supervision of his gastroenterologist. The patient presented to his primary…
This case involves an elderly man who was seriously and permanently injured by a malfunction in an automatic door at a hospital. The man was leaving the hospital after treatment from a minor renal condition when a nurse activated the…
This case involves a woman who was severely injured by a paper shredder. The plaintiff, a twenty-seven-year-old female, was shredding documents, taking them from her desk, rolling her chair to the shredder, and then shredding them. While doing this, she…