Airbag Expert Witnesses

What is an airbag expert witness?

Airbag expert witness candidates typically have expertise in mechanical engineering, biomechanics, automotive safety, crash sensor technology, crash data retrieval, event data recorders, and/or airbag system design. Often, airbag expert witnesses have advanced degrees in engineering or medicine, accreditation in traffic accident reconstruction (ACTAR, MOT, SAE), or law enforcement experience.

What types of cases require an airbag expert witness?

An expert in airbag technology might provide testimony in matters involving defective airbags, airbag product liability cases, or personal injury cases due to airbag deployment in motor vehicle accidents.

What litigation support work might an airbag expert witness be expected to perform?

An airbag expert witness could provide expertise in intellectual property matters, such as patent litigation or trade secret disputes. Law firms may also engage an automotive industry safety expert for pre-litigation consulting work. Litigation support by an airbag expert witness could include failure analysis, forensic engineering, traffic accident reconstruction, authoring expert reports, accident reconstruction, and expert witness testimony at trial.

Cahn Litigation Services has many years of experience finding the ideal expert to provide expert witness services for vehicle occupant protection matters on behalf of either the plaintiff or defendant.

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Airbag Expert Witness - Representative Bios

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Airbag experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Airbag landscape.

• Expert Witness #236308

  This expert is one of a very few nationally who understand air bag technology from a design standpoint. Before becoming an independent consultant with an engineering services firm, this expert worked directly for OEMs on airbag safety and design. This expert had responsibility for validation and testing of seat belt and airbag development. This expert served as Fact Witness in a number of air bag design matters for the OEMs, as well as an Expert Witness since becoming a consultant. This expert also worked for Tier I suppliers, with design, development and release responsibility for front passenger airbag systems.

  
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• Expert Witness #256295

  This expert holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and is a certified Professional Engineer. This expert's focus in industry has been in automotive safety restraints and motion research. This expert is an Adjunct Professor in a Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing engineering, and has worked the way up from Consultant to President and Senior Consultant for a company where this expert regularly deals with restraint system design, performance and usage. This expert has supervised and/or conducted testing of airbag systems, seatbelt systems, head/helmet impact, and child restraint systems. This expert is well published, holds two US seatbelt patents, and is a regular presenter at industry and academic conferences.

  
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• Expert Witness #218103

  This expert holds a PhD and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and is a Registered Professional Mechanical Engineer. This expert is an ASME Fellow and an IEEE Senior Member. This expert is also a member of ASM International (the Materials Information Society), the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (IEEE-VTS). This expert has unique multi-disciplinary experience in devices with electronic, mechanical, and thermal issues.

  This expert has direct experience with investigations involving various aspects of airbag technology. This experience includes airbag inflators and the propellant that produces the gas to inflate the airbag. It also includes finite element simulations for products like airbags to investigate issues such as folding, venting, inflation dynamics and occupant interaction. This expert is also familiar with interaction with occupants (also out-of-position and small occupants) and associated issues. At its heart, an airbag is a very thin fabric membrane, folded, rapidly inflated, has special venting, etc. Thin shells and membranes for many different applications are strong areas for this expert.

  This expert has testified in both trial and deposition for patent cases and other types of litigation. This expert has authored numerous expert reports, filed 8 IPR Declarations, multiple patent depositions and testified in 3 product trials and a patent trial. This expert has many years of consulting and expert witness experience including patents, design, regulatory, and failure/reliability issues of a variety of vehicular and other products covering a wide range of equipment and systems.

  
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• Expert Witness #234101

  This expert is a licensed professional engineer and professor of Mechanical Engineering where this expert teaches courses on product design and engineering design methodology. This expert has developed laboratories for product design and reverse engineering. Holding a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, this expert has experience with sensors, actuators and controllers. This expert's expertise extends to a range of sensors used in the field of automotive crash safety, including airbag development, rollover detection, stability control, and digital steering. Such sensors are similar to those used in recreational vehicle leveling systems. This expert is well-published and has presented on recreational vehicle cases. This expert has analyzed recreational vehicle and automotive patent claims as an expert witness.

  
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• Expert Witness #259822

  This expert holds a B.S. through Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering & Materials Science and has a history in the Automotive Industry. This expert leads a highly successful and well-respected consultancy providing support to intellectual property litigation in the automotive electronics field.

  This expert spent most of this expert's career specializing in Automotive Electronics Systems and Electric Vehicle hardware design and manufacturing, and served as Department Head of Advanced Instrumentation and Display, Director of all Advanced Development and Systems Integration, Vice President of Engineering Design and release of product designs for the Asia/Pacific market, and Managing Director of a Multi-Media Product and Systems product line. This expert has consulting experience working for Tier One (supplying directly to a vehicle manufacturer) and Tier Two (supplying to a Tier One) engaged in automotive electronic device and systems design for the North American market but with the primary supplier client-based in Asia/Pacific, North America, or Europe.

  -  In almost all of these design projects this expert had to be aware of both the radiation that these new products emanated across the electromagnetic spectrum and also the potential effect of radiation that impinged on these products/systems coming from other electronic devices/products/systems in or around the vehicle in question.

  -  Mechanisms to deal with EMI covered the normal and typical wide range of solutions including: solutions on board circuit board designs, system shielding in wiring of various sorts, and shielding in wrap-around metal boxes for various subsystem boxes with electronic products contained therein.

  -  The product/systems range that this expert dealt with included audio systems, infotainment (e.g. including navigation) systems, telematics systems including analog and digital telephony, instrumentation systems and displays in front of the driver and along the car midline between the driver and passenger, many safety products and systems including stability control, air bag, anti-skid braking, forward looking object detection/warning/avoidance systems (lasers and optical systems), tire pressure monitors, engine and transmission control systems, electric vehicle electronic systems, etc.

  This expert has extensive expert witness experience. This expert has worked for both Defendants (60%) & Plaintiffs (40%), and experience with IPRs, PGRs, and in District Court. This expert has taken on 19 expert cases, 9 w/one or more IPRs/PGRs, worked with 23 different law firms, performed prior art searches, authored dozens of written declarations and reports, and provided 10 Depositions/Testimony.

  
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• Expert Witness #225628

  This airbag expert holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics and has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry, including over 5 years in a research and development leadership role for an automotive safety technology company.

  This expert contributed to work on vehicle sensing systems designed to detect collisions with another vehicle or stationary object and determine whether and when airbags should deploy within milliseconds of impact to help protect occupants from injury. In response to a federal decision restricting the use of airbag inflators containing sodium azide, this expert and colleagues designed and tested airbag deployment modules that did not rely on the combustion of sodium azide to generate gas for airbag inflation.

  
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• Expert Witness #232512

  This automotive seat expert holds a PhD and has expertise in seat assembly, seatbelts, airbag performance, and biomechanics. This expert holds over 30 patents, including inventions related to automotive seating.

  Automotive seat system work has included analysis of alleged design, manufacturing, and testing defects, including review of design, engineering methodologies, manufacturer testing, and applicable industry standards. Before consulting, this expert held engineering roles at major automotive corporations.

  
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• Expert Witness #268460

  This airbag design expert has over 20 years of experience in the design, development, testing, and management of airbag systems. This expert specializes in forensic and technical services related to the design, development, and manufacture of airbag systems.

  Experience includes responsibility at a major automotive manufacturer for the design, development, and program management of steering wheels, driver airbags, passenger airbags, side-impact airbags, and side-curtain airbags for trucks. This expert has also led design teams on driver airbag modules and inflators, steering wheels and horn pads, steering columns, instrument panels, front-end sheet metal and ornamentation, headlamps, and front and rear bumper systems involving sheet metal and composites.

  This expert has testified on several occasions.

  
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• Expert Witness #268489

  This vehicle defect expert is a Mechanical Engineer with over 15 years of experience in vehicle and crash reconstruction. In this role, this expert has provided technical investigations, crash reconstruction, testing, analysis, reports, and testimony to assist with litigation involving motor vehicle collisions, vehicle design and manufacturing defects, improper repairs, and vehicle fires. This expert also has several years of experience in the automotive restraint industry, including design and project engineering roles with tier-1 suppliers and design and release engineering work for a major automotive manufacturer. This expert's specialty areas include crashworthiness product liability matters involving airbags, inflators, crash sensors, and seatbelts, including airbag deployment thresholds and investigations into why an airbag improperly deployed or failed to deploy.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #276930

  This toxicology expert holds an MD and MPH, is a FACOEM, and is triple board-certified in Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Aerospace Medicine, and Public Health and Preventive Medicine. Each of these specialties provides a unique and complementary perspective on injury mechanisms, toxic exposures, and safety systems, including injuries caused by airbag deployment and chemical burns.

  Occupational and Environmental Medicine focuses on the health effects of chemical, physical, and mechanical exposures in the workplace and general environment. This includes expertise in toxicology, dermatologic injuries, and causation analysis, which are key components in assessing whether a chemical burn resulted from airbag deployment. Aerospace Medicine further strengthens this foundation through its emphasis on high-speed impact biomechanics, confined-space exposures, and the physiological effects of rapid-deployment systems similar to those in vehicles.

  In expert witness work, this expert has opined in cases regarding chemical exposures and injuries, including chemical burns.

  
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• Expert Witness #288619

  This airbag/automotive safety expert has over 25 years of automotive engineering experience, including over 20 years focused on airbag and safety system design and development. This expert works in automotive safety, including airbag system design, crash sensing, frontal impact, side impact, rollover, and rear impact.

  This expert specializes in EDR black box data analysis, evaluation of airbag deployment timing, evaluation of system sensing design, vehicle performance testing and product defect analysis, vehicle sensor instrumentation, onboard vehicle data analysis, vehicle computer imaging and diagnostics, and advanced driver assistance systems testing.

  This expert previously worked for a major automotive manufacturer and served as a lead engineer and designer of airbag crash sensing and related safety systems for frontal impact, rear impact, side impact, rollover, and occupant classification systems. This expert designed satellite crash sensors and associated crash sensing algorithms, as well as the primary crash sensing algorithm for a Sensing and Diagnostic Module used in an advanced airbag system developed in response to federal safety requirements.

  For many years, this expert has served as an Expert Witness consultant, primarily addressing airbag and safety system failures and Crash Data Recording interpretations.

  
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• Expert Witness #296727

  This accident reconstruction expert is a Mechanical Engineer with over 10 years of experience as an accident reconstructionist. Expertise includes interpreting vehicle event data recorders, evaluating human factors relating to incidents, and conducting motor vehicle inspections. This expert is an active board member of a regional technical accident investigation association and an accredited accident reconstructionist.

  This expert regularly inspects vehicles and images event data recorders, including airbag control modules. As an accident reconstructionist, this expert analyzes electronic data stored on event data recorders and corroborates it with physical evidence and other validating information. Experience includes in-house testing and crashworthiness analysis, particularly involving supplemental restraint systems.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant who has assisted in hundreds of cases.

  
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• Expert Witness #304275

  This amusement ride safety expert is a credentialed inspector through prominent amusement ride safety organizations, teaches inspector credentialing and inflatable-operator coursework, and helped write an ASTM standard for inflatables.

  This expert owned and operated an inflatable company for over 15 years, including experience with inflatable airbags in inventory. This expert has also analyzed inflatable airbag incidents involving topsheet penetration and contact with the base or ground.

  This expert performs regulated audits of amusement parks, including audits of operations, maintenance, inspection, and training programs.

  
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• Expert Witness #305559

  This autonomous vehicle/ADAS expert is a distinguished leader in automotive safety technology, specializing in the verification, validation, and forensic analysis of autonomous vehicle systems. With over 30 years of experience, this expert is recognized as a pioneer in the development of crash-sensing algorithms and advanced signal processing, foundational technologies that govern how modern vehicles detect and respond to impact.

  This expert focuses on high-fidelity, physics-based sensor simulation. This expertise allows complex accident scenarios to be reconstructed within virtual environments, providing critical insights into how automated systems perceive, or fail to perceive, their surroundings. The work is instrumental in bridging the gap between theoretical software performance and real-world safety reliability.

  This expert has expertise in airbag sensing, including matters involving failures to deploy airbags when required. This expert has handled a number of cases involving autonomous vehicle and advanced driver-assistance system algorithms, sensors, and how those systems were used or failed to work properly. This expert has also worked on driver monitoring systems and is familiar with operational design domain concepts, failure modes, ISO 26262, functional safety requirements, and the V-cycle.

  This expert is currently retained in dozens of active cases nationwide involving autonomous vehicle and advanced driver-assistance systems, as well as additional cases involving airbag crash-sensing algorithms. This expert has worked on over 125 total cases since becoming a legal expert a number of years ago. In much of this case work, this expert provides simulations of events with properly functioning advanced driver-assistance systems.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #2372757

  This airbag expert has over 35 years of automotive engineering experience involving automotive safety systems, inflatable restraints, airbags, and airbag inflators. This expert has specialized experience with airbag sensors, sensing-system electronic architectures, inflatable curtains, rollover curtains, and front and side airbags.

  This expert has run more than 1,000 crash tests and has developed airbags and airbag sensors for major automotive manufacturers and suppliers. This expert also has experience in forensic evaluation and analysis of airbag deployment, including issues involving inadvertent deployment.

  This expert has extensive experience testifying as an airbag and inflator expert, as well as on vehicle data and event-data-recorder issues. This expert has served as an expert witness in matters involving major airbag inflator recalls and identified safety design issues before they became widely recognized by regulators and the public.

  This expert is an experienced expert witness.

  
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