Industrial Chemicals Expert Witnesses

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Industrial chemicals expert witness candidates are typically professional engineers with advanced degrees and may be certified industrial hygienists, possessing extensive experience and expertise in industrial health, environmental health, and chemical engineering. Experts in the industrial chemicals field may have an affiliation with industry organizations, such as ASTM, the American Chemical Society (ACS), Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA), the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), or the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI). In a high-profile case or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a qualified expert with prior expert testimony experience.

A subject matter expert in industrial chemicals might be called upon to provide expert testimony in toxic tort litigation cases, an accident investigation, or insurance disputes. Litigation support services by an industrial chemicals expert could include failure analysis, forensic analysis accident reconstruction, exposure assessment, toxicology report review, expert opinion, expert report, and expert witness testimony at a trial. In addition, clients may seek an industrial chemicals industry expert for pre-litigation consulting work. Whether the case involves chemical exposure, indoor air quality, hazardous chemicals, toxic chemicals, or industrial hygiene, Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn an expert witness search around quickly. The firm routinely provides chemical engineer expert witnesses with the right balance of expertise and testimony to support each unique project, on behalf of a plaintiff or defendant.

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

• Expert Witness #242473

  This expert is an experienced expert in the field of specialty chemicals including, but not limited to, a variety of inorganic minerals and solid polymers. This expert has an extensive background and understanding of chemical reactions that occur at interfaces of solids and liquid-solid interfaces. This expert has many years of experience with the reactions of silane coupling agents with inorganic solids such as clays and silica, and is a published author on the flow behavior of polymers.

  For many years, this expert has consulted for corporations involved in the development, optimization, patenting, marketing and quality control of new and existing products and processes.

  This expert has served as a forensic expert witness in a multitude of disciplines including patent analysis/infringement, trade secret litigation, product & process issues, OSHA Regulations, Codes & Standards, physical chemistry and material properties. This expert has provided Federal and State depositions and courtroom testimony numerous times. This expert has been deposed in two intellectual property cases, both of which were successful for this expert's client. This expert has also consulted for medical device companies engaged in development of novel surgical techniques, and is a named inventor on 23 patents.

  
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• Expert Witness #124243

  This expert holds a PhD in Chemistry, has many years of experience in polymers and has extensive design, testing and evaluation experience in the absorption and dissipation of forces - polymeric materials. This expert is the named inventor on numerous U.S. patents involving plastics that have been commercialized, including numerous household products and energy absorbing protective headgear. This expert’s areas of specialty include new product development, voluntary standards, statutes, labeling, custom and practice, technology and cost in relationship to the hazards, and dangers and risks involved in the use and application of consumer products. An active member of the ASTM for many years, this expert has been involved in the creation of the standards and testing involved with polymeric products. This expert is a former member of the Advisory Board -World Congress on Industrial, Technical, and High Performance Textiles and the Advisory Board - American Board of Engineering and Technology. This expert is a member of:

  American Chemical Society

  The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Senior Member)

  Society of Plastics Engineers

  American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC)

  American Board of Forensic Examiners

  … to name just a few and has earned among others, ASTM qualification in:

  C-8 Refractories;

  C-14 Glass & Glass Products;

  D-1 Paint, Varnish, Lacquer & Related Products;

  D-9 Electrical Insulating Materials;

  D-13 Textiles;

  D-13.52 Flammability

  D-14 Adhesives;

  D-19 Water;

  D-20 Plastics;

  D-26 Halogenated Organic Solvents;

  D-30 High Modulus Fibers and their Composites;

  E-7 Non-destructive Testing;

  E-15 Analysis & Testing of Industrial Chemicals;

  E-17 Skid Resistance;

  E-20 Temperature Measurement, Chemicals;

  E-27 Hazard Potential of Chemicals;

  E-30 Forensic Sciences;

  E-28 Mechanical Testing;

  F-15 Consumer Product Safety;

  F-23 Protective Clothing;

  F24-10 Test Methods

  F24-20 Specifications and Terminology

  F24-24 Design and Manufacture

  F15 Consumer Products

  This expert has extensive litigation experience (testified 9 times, deposed 20+), and has authored and presented extensively.

  
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• Expert Witness #260507

  This expert is recognized as an expert in chemistry, hazardous materials, metallurgical and plastics failure analysis and fire and explosion investigations. This expert is the founder and chief technologist for a nationally recognized fire science and forensic laboratory and specialized burn facility, equipped with among other apparatus, fabric flammability test cabinets, instruments used to characterize fabric density, warp/weave and composition (synthetic, cotton, blend, FR etc.), and a cone calorimeter which is a standard test method to characterize the fire performance of materials.

  This expert performs investigation according to recognized and professional standard practices and methodologies for engineering failure analysis and fire investigation with results supported by testing, analysis, codes, standards and literature. Familiar with existing test methods on soft furnishings as well as changes in regulations with respect to fire retardants and fire testing, this expert often performs instrumented, modified standard or ad hoc fire tests on these materials.

  This expert was the lead engineer that developed tests and criteria for assessing the burning rate hazard of solid chemical oxidizers based on research and testing at bench and intermediate scales that was accepted by the fire codes. This expert has training in Regulatory Fire Tests and is a principal member on a technical committee which addresses room fire hazards including fuel loads like furniture. This expert is also very familiar with other industry guides including the SFPE.

  This expert has training in hazard assessment methodologies, failure analysis and hazardous waste operations and emergency response. This expert serves on hazardous chemical, combustible metals and combustible dust technical committees as well as on technical panels overseeing research related to hazards associated with combustible dusts, antifreeze in home sprinkler systems and separation distances.

  This expert has been retained as a consulting and testifying expert by numerous law firms, insurance companies and corporations.

  
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• Expert Witness #247249

  This expert joined a hazardous materials regulations and compliance company where he provides dangerous goods regulatory assistance to customers worldwide by drawing on vast experience and knowledge of the hazardous materials regulations. This expert served with an organization, where this expert was responsible for directing approximately 150 hazardous materials transportation specialists of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Program, including overseeing the regulatory development, technical review and classification, international standards, outreach, special permits and approvals and enforcement offices. In this position this expert was involved in the development of domestic and international regulations and gained not only an understanding of the regulations but the intent and meaning behind the words. This expert has been involved in the development and implementation of hazardous materials safety regulations for many years and has been responsible for a broad range of domestic and international hazardous materials safety efforts.

  Since leaving the government for private practice, this expert draws on vast experience to provide guidance and consulting services to clients ranging from major international corporations to small businesses. This expert has assisted numerous clients with bringing their operations into compliance. Typical services include:

  -  Working with company staff to better their understand of regulatory issues, improve management oversight, hold suppliers more accountable and improve corporate safety;

  -  Conducting compliance audits and providing corrective action reports and recommendations;

  -  Providing compliance assistance (e.g. intermodal shipping strategies, hazard classification, regulations interpretation, etc.);

  -  Developing operations and policy manuals, standard operating procedures and job aides;

  -  Developing reverse logistics/customer return solutions;

  -  Providing technical expertise for classifying hazardous materials including lithium batteries;

  -  Identifying opportunities to use regulatory exceptions to lower shipping cost and reduce risk;

  -  Penalty mitigation related to enforcement actions;

  -  Serving as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases, including deposition and testimony;

  -  Acquiring special permits and approvals;

  -  Providing training development, assess employee competencies and function specific responsibilities; and

  -  Developing and supplying customized dangerous goods products specific to client's needs.
  
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• Expert Witness #247257

  This expert is internationally recognized as a leader in the hazardous materials / dangerous goods compliance industry. This expert's extensive background includes work leading hazardous and dangerous goods initiatives at several organizations. Throughout a career in the transportation safety field, this expert has worked with legislative and regulatory staffs at the state, federal, and international level to draft, introduce, support, and implement reasonable and prudent controls within the transportation industry. This expert has developed and presented written and oral testimony on hazardous materials and transportation safety in both Houses of the U.S. Congress. This expert has written several books on the guiding principles of hazardous materials transportation and participates in the IMO Dangerous Goods Subcommittee and the UN Sub Committee of Experts on the Transportation of Dangerous Goods. This expert has participated on several committees of the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board.

  In addition to hundreds of industry seminars, this expert has taught the principles of hazardous materials transportation management at seminars and undergraduate and graduate degree programs at US universities. This expert has provided thousands of steamship representatives, State & Federal enforcement personnel, shippers & other Hazmat employees with dangerous goods and hazmat training products and services. This expert provides copies of regulatory code books and has also published a complete library of compliance guides & training programs. In addition, this expert provides professional Hazmat auditing and training, specializing in incorrectly classified, packaged or described shipments.

  
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• Expert Witness #260510

  This expert holds a PhD in Environmental Health, is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), and brings to the table many years of comprehensive technical experience in the environmental health and safety field in both the public and private sectors. This expert serves as Founder and technical lead for a highly respected consultancy.

  Specific areas of expertise include chemical exposure evaluation, indoor air quality, heat stress, chemical hygiene, hazard communication, health and safety training and management systems, and respiratory protection. This expert's experience includes designing, directing, and conducting industrial hygiene investigations and exposure assessments (over 5000 investigations conducted/managed), designing and overseeing asbestos abatement activities, designing and managing ventilation system installations, conducting general environmental and hazardous material site assessments.

  This expert has given over five hundred seminars, with topics varying from health and safety management systems and liability issues, to general indoor air quality and mold. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience having been designated a state-recognized expert in hundreds of cases in the areas of industrial hygiene and indoor air quality, been deposed dozens of times, and testified successfully in both trials and arbitrations.

  
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