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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Passenger Safety experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Passenger Safety landscape.
Expert Witness #236308
This expert is one of a very few nationally who understand airbag 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.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert 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.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #121842
This trucking and DOT compliance expert has over 50 years of experience in commercial trucking and compliance, including work as a truck driver, owner-operator, truck driver-training instructor, truck driver training program director, and consultant for motor carriers and truck driving schools. This expert is licensed, certified, and qualified as a CMV driver with endorsements for hazardous materials, tank truck, double and triple trailers, passenger carriage, and school bus. Certifications are held for air brake inspection and repair, operation of Longer Combination Vehicles (LCVs), and Pilot/Escort Driver work for oversize and supersize loads of extreme weight and dimension. This expert also holds a Transportation Worker Identification Credential.
This expert has over 40 years of experience as a truck driving instructor, truck driving program director, and truck driving curricula designer, and has operated truck driver training programs in numerous locations nationwide. This expert served as a liaison to federal transportation regulators and supervised special training programs under federal contracts and government grants, focusing on evaluating the effectiveness of fostering development of a safety culture in new entrant motor carriers. This expert has experience in developing and producing motor carrier management and truck driver training materials, truck accident analysis, trucking litigation consulting, special truck driving assignments, and transportation study and research projects. This expert conducted research and provided recommendations for rulemaking on a federal transportation project studying the Hazardous Materials Safety Permit (HMSP) program for motor carriers in response to a Congressional mandate.
This expert has extensive experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant, including work on over 4,000 cases, testimony in more than 1,500 depositions, and over 200 trial appearances in both Federal and State courts as a qualified expert concerning safe operation of commercial motor vehicles and the reasonable performance of commercial vehicle operators and motor carriers.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #249747
This bus stop safety expert holds a Masters in Urban & Regional Planning from a well-regarded university and has over 40 years of experience in the passenger transportation field, beginning with early consulting work involving transportation agencies. While this expert's focus has increasingly shifted toward expert witness services, this expert has continued periodically conducting and participating in consulting efforts across nearly every sector of the passenger transportation industry.
This expert has been involved in more than 70 cases involving school bus safety, crossing accidents, and other passenger transportation services.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #277138
This vehicle design expert is a mechanical engineering graduate of a prestigious university whose professional career has focused on motorcycles and human factors engineering. In senior vehicle engineering leadership roles, this expert has led engineering teams in developing new vehicles from concept through production and safety certification, and has patents involving two-wheeled vehicle designs.
This expert has experience with motorcycle design, powersports equipment, vehicle safety, and human factors issues, including safety considerations involving frame structure, passenger injury mechanisms, and protection against hair and clothing entrapment. This expert's work has also included vehicle design considerations for international markets involving garment-related safety guards.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #284157
This railroad safety practices and accident investigation expert is a retired federal railroad safety agency employee with over 30 years of service, including over 5 years in a regional leadership role, and has over 40 years of combined railroad industry experience. This expert has held several railroad safety and leadership roles, including senior leadership, railroad safety administration, and safety board service, with responsibilities involving organizational and industry special projects, regulation development and rollout, accident, injury, and fatality investigations, railroad safety initiatives, parallel programs, and nonprofit safety organizations.
This expert currently leads a successful consultancy providing consulting and testifying expert services in railroad safety and has extensive training and involvement in significant accident, fatality, and related safety incident investigations. This expert has presided over dozens of derailment, collision, and fatality investigations of varying size and scope annually. Areas of expertise include general railway operations and safety, operating practices, shared passenger rail right of way, hazard identification and mitigation, community safety, roadway worker and bridge worker safety, complex case analysis and management, and railway accident, fatality, and injury investigation.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #288846
This common carrier safety expert has over 35 years of experience as a Safety Manager in the commercial passenger transportation industry. This expert has over 5 years of experience as an expert witness in bus and commercial vehicle accidents, focusing on vehicle operation, driver training and supervision, corporate policies and procedures, and safety and compliance. This expert is skilled in Operations Management, Transportation Management, and DOT Compliance, and is a highly experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #294652
This rideshare and taxi service expert has over thirty years of experience in the passenger transportation industry, including safety practices in the ride share industry, and serves in senior leadership for a personal car service company while providing consulting services to a wide range of passenger transport companies.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #304823
This consumer product safety expert holds a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from a well-regarded university and an MPH from a prestigious university, and works as a human factors consultant with interdisciplinary training in child and adolescent development and public health. A significant portion of this expert's work addresses child and adolescent safety, with particular attention to risk behaviors, cognitive and motor development, contextual factors, and the role of caregiver supervision. This expert also evaluates how factors such as risk perception and hazard awareness contribute to accident patterns across age groups, and how caregiver practices shape health and injury outcomes.
This expert has extensive experience in consumer product design and safety, with a focus on juvenile and children's products. In consulting and expert witness roles, this expert has worked with manufacturers of baby carriers, child car seats, strollers, nursing pillows, and play furniture, as well as broader consumer products requiring child-resistant design considerations. This expert is a Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician with deep knowledge of child seats, child restraint systems, and applicable safety standards. This expert is also an active member of multiple ASTM subcommittees covering carriages and strollers, infant carriers, and general juvenile product standards, and regularly applies CPSC, ASTM, and ISO standards and guidelines. This expert is additionally a Certified Playground Safety Inspector and is knowledgeable about national playground standards and design guidelines. This background supports evaluation of hazards such as entanglement, entrapment, and other injury risks, as well as design decisions to mitigate them. Across this expert's work, child development, anthropometry, and caregiver behavior are often considered, including misuse, user error, and interaction with product warnings and instructions.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Passenger Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #2372725
This airbag inflator expert has over 35 years of automotive engineering experience in automotive safety systems, inflatable restraints, airbags, and airbag inflators, with direct experience in airbag inflator design, testing, and development.
This expert's work includes engineering airbag inflators and conducting crash testing, sled testing, hot- and cold-temperature testing, inflator orifice and opening analysis, puncture systems for inflator gas output, and related development and prove-out testing for safe, reliable inflator performance. This expert has worked with pyrotechnic, stored-gas, and hybrid inflator development and testing for decades, and has served as a release engineer for driver airbags, side airbags, passenger airbags, and inflatable curtains, as well as writing and publishing design standards, design guidelines, and performance standards for prove-out of these systems.
This expert has extensive experience testifying as an automotive manufacturer's airbag and inflator expert, and as a vehicle data and black-box expert. This expert has designed, tested, developed, proved out, and released numerous airbag and inflator systems, and has ensured prove-out and hot- and cold-temperature performance of inflators and airbag components. This work includes tank tests and reliability and durability testing to ensure proper performance of multi-vent inflators, including their advantages over single-vent inflator design.
This expert has served as an expert witness involving dangerous airbag inflator recalls and identified problems and issues with an unsafe design before the recalls became public knowledge and before regulators became aware of those issues.
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