Mold Expert Witnesses
What is a mold expert witness?
Mold expert witness candidates are typically professional engineers with expertise in environmental health, civil engineering, and/or environmental engineering. Mold remediation expert witnesses have expertise and experience in toxic mold removal, which may be required in some circumstances. Mold expert witnesses typically have advanced degrees (PhD, PE) with specialized training in indoor air quality, ventilation systems, and home inspections.
What types of cases require a mold expert witness?
A subject matter expert in mold might be called upon to provide expert testimony in matters concerning indoor air quality, industrial hygiene, toxicology, and insurance disputes.
Mold can have a huge impact on indoor air quality (IAQ). The EPA provides guidance about mold and moisture for homes, schools, multifamily and commercial buildings.
Mold expert witness case examples
Example projects that have called for an indoor mold expert have included:
- insurance claims involving water intrusion at a Connecticut school,
- commercial HVAC system at a Florida warehouse,
- mold growth causation in Alabama,
- property management case involving a South Carolina apartment complex,
- OSHA regulations,
- water damage at a Texas real estate site,
- residential property damage,
- New York City building code violations,
- groundwater drainage,
- New Jersey healthcare facility mold inspection and toxic mold testing, and
- occupational health and occupational safety.
What litigation support work might a mold expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support services could include exposure assessments, providing expert opinions, research and authoring expert reports, deposition, and expert witness testimony at a trial. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a qualified expert with prior expert witness testimony experience.
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Mold Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Mold experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Mold landscape.
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.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #261578
This expert is a fellow in each of the following organizations: American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, American Association of Certified Allergists, American College of Chest Physicians, and American Academy of Pediatrics.
- Board certified in Allergy and Immunology- Board certified in Pediatrics- Private practice of Allergy & Immunology- Author of over 100 Articles, Monographs, Chapters on Medicine mostly related to Allergy, Sinus and Asthma DisordersExperience in Medical Legal Reviews, Depositions, and Court Appearances involving:
- Mold Intrusion- Allergy and Asthma Medical Care- Exposures to the Environment i.e. Sick Building Syndromes- Exposures to Cleaning Agents- Exposures to Insecticides- Fire Related Exposures and Effects on Asthma and Allergy- Oil Slick and Solvent Exposure- Insect Sting & Bite Reactions- Clinical professor of pediatrics
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #260531
This expert is an AIA certified Architect with many years of architectural design and construction administration experience with all building types, including educational, medical, R&D, corporate, commercial, custom residential, multi-family housing, military and industrial projects. Emphasizing use of durable, low maintenance materials including stainless, copper, bronze, zinc, cement-fiber, plastics, composites, specialty sealants & industrial paints. This expert heads a building reconstruction and forensic investigation consultancy that provides visual inspection, intrusive testing, defect analysis, repair recommendations and forensic expert services for both plaintiff and defense parties. This expert brings to the table specialized knowledge of construction materials, industry standards, code compliance, waterproofing, vapor transmission, exterior finishes, corrosion, condensation, ventilation, mold, wood rot, suspended ceilings, interior partitions, and structural issues. This expert's experience includes thousands of visual inspections and hundreds of intrusive tests for construction defect cases, including institutional, commercial and retail structures, housing developments and private homes. This expert also provides reconstruction design, details and specifications focused on solving complex construction problems and developing effective repairs for commercial and institutional buildings.
This expert has served as a third-party neutral construction expert for mediators, arbitrators and courts, and retained jointly by both plaintiff and defense parties. Specializing in complex construction disputes where resolution can be facilitated through clarification of technical issues and extensive case documents. Experience includes complex, multi-party commercial and institutional cases.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #246049
This food-related packaging, logistics, and machinery expert holds a PhD and provides expertise in packaging, machinery, and logistics, primarily involving food-related products. This expert is a Professor Emeritus at a university, leads a packaging research consultancy, has managed over 1000 consulting projects for over 400 major companies and federal agencies, is extensively published, and provides scientific and engineering analysis for disputes involving packaging, logistics, and related product issues.
This expert has provided expert testimony in food packaging matters involving issues related to food safety laws, including FDA and state regulations. These conditions occurred during shipping and warehousing of packaged food products throughout the supply chain and logistics process. This expert has testified in over 75 matters involving food and beverage products, including nutraceuticals, contaminants, adulterants, mold, infestation, and chemical exposure leading to recalls or serious health threats to consumers. These matters have included toxic chemical exposure from ammonia, naphthalene, and other substances, including organic toxins such as pest feces. This expert has conducted extensive research and published findings in peer-reviewed international packaging journals on refrigerated ships and intermodal containers used in logistics for shipments to the United States from Central and South America, China, India, Europe, and other regions. This expert has also served on a scientific advisory council for a cold chain logistics organization for over 10 years, providing expertise on packaging and logistics.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant, has been retained in over 500 lawsuits, and has provided deposition and trial testimony in over 100 cases.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #251556
This plastics and molding expert holds a Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering and a Master of Science in Polymer Engineering, with over 25 years of practical, hands-on injection molding experience. This expert has held senior engineering, project management, consulting, instructional, and leadership roles involving injection molding processes, plastics consulting, technical training, advanced materials engineering, service and sales support, and manufacturing operations.
This expert has served as a founder, president, partner, principal instructor, senior injection molding process engineer, project manager, engineer, contract engineer, and co-op engineer in the plastics, injection molding, automotive, steel, and advanced materials sectors. This expert has also held leadership and advisory roles with plastics industry and technical education organizations.
This expert received undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees from well-regarded universities. This expert has jointly published papers addressing crystallization, microstructure, and kinetics of polymers in technical and peer-reviewed polymer publications, has been cited in numerous injection molding industry publications, and has spoken at prominent industry conferences.
This expert has over 30 years of hands-on injection molding experience involving mold setup, process optimization, production support, public and customized onsite training, and troubleshooting of new molds. This expert has physically set up hundreds of molds for production and supported them for extended periods of time. This expert's background includes engineering education in materials and polymer engineering, hands-on machine setup, process development, and production support.
This expert is familiar with the practical division of responsibilities between engineers and process technicians in injection molding environments, including determining machine settings, physically running molding equipment, satisfying production requirements, and debugging defects. This expert also has experience with master molding certification programs and injection molding training, while recognizing that formal training alone does not replace years of hands-on production and troubleshooting experience.
This expert has worked with custom injection molding operations involving outsourced molds, quality and pricing issues, process-transfer challenges, mold condition problems, cycle-time uncertainty, dimensional and cosmetic requirements, defect analysis, scrap reduction, and production troubleshooting. This expert is also experienced with the commercial and operational risks that arise when molding work is quoted before the condition of molds, prior cycle times, defect history, and production requirements are fully known.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #280642
This industrial hygiene/asbestos expert is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Professional Engineer, holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering, and has over 30 years of experience in the environmental industry. This expert previously held a senior environmental engineering role with a major company before co-founding an environmental consulting firm. This expert's primary responsibility is overseeing technical and field operations. This expert is also active in prominent industrial hygiene professional associations and has presented numerous seminars and lectures, as well as provided expert testimony in environmental legal matters.
This expert has direct experience with asbestos remediation and abatement, has designed and implemented asbestos exposure assessments, and is an asbestos special inspector. This expert has provided expert witness services in mold, lead, and asbestos for more than 20 years.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #282488
This industrial hygiene/mold expert holds PG, CHMM, and RSO credentials and has over 35 years of experience in environmental consulting and industrial hygiene, with extensive expertise in mold and microbial investigations involving commercial, industrial, institutional, and residential properties. This expert has been retained in over 100 litigation matters and has served as an expert witness in over 50 cases involving mold contamination, water intrusion, and microbial amplification.
This expert's experience includes forensic determination of moisture and contamination sources, assessment of building-related health concerns, development of remediation protocols, oversight of corrective actions, and preparation of technically defensible expert reports and testimony. This expert routinely performs and oversees field investigations, including site inspections, sampling, moisture mapping, and building system evaluations, and is actively engaged in field work associated with mold and microbial assessments.
This expert also has extensive experience reviewing large volumes of photographs, technical records, and project documentation to evaluate conditions, reconstruct events, and support defensible conclusions in complex litigation. This expert evaluates facilities impacted by flooding, plumbing failures, HVAC deficiencies, and long-term moisture intrusion and provides practical, science-based recommendations to support remediation, regulatory compliance, risk management, and litigation strategy.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #285254
This mold exposure/pulmonology expert is a board-certified Pulmonologist and Internal Medicine physician with over 25 years of experience in pulmonary care, including treatment for mold inhalation. This expert has experience as an expert witness and litigation consultant and has been engaged in over 20 expert witness cases over a number of recent years, for both plaintiff and defendant matters. Topics have included lung cancer, sepsis, ventilator management, aspiration pneumonia, obstructive sleep apnea, mold, reactive airways disease, and hypersensitivity pneumonitis.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #286176
This chemistry, materials, and injection molding expert is a prestigious university-educated PhD chemist with over 30 years of experience in the chemical industry, over 10 personal US patents, and over 25 additional patents granted to groups this expert led. This expert led research and development initiatives internationally, serving in scientific, global research leadership, and senior technology executive roles for major chemical companies. This expert has strong expertise in research leadership and management, new business development, business and commercialization strategy, litigation research, and innovation involving polymers, plastics, materials, and adhesives.
This expert spent over 30 years in the plastics industry performing and supervising the development of new and improved plastics, many of which were targeted for injection molding applications. Injection molding was used to prepare many test samples. This expert also oversaw a technical support group that worked with customers to troubleshoot injection mold designs and processes for applications including automotive lighting and trim, medical parts, and consumer goods.
This expert has experience with functional behavior issues involving polymer parts, including factors such as modulus and strength, ductile or brittle failure behavior, and notch sensitivity.
As a technical expert, this expert has worked with attorneys to secure numerous patents and to reach favorable resolutions in high-value litigation. This expert also has experience in scale-up, manufacturing, and marketing, served in a board role for a prominent industry association, and served as a judge for industry innovation awards.
As a senior scientist and leader of multiple R&D groups, this expert led programs for the development and commercialization of numerous new products with cumulative sales exceeding two billion dollars. These products have widespread use in automotive, aerospace, medical, construction, packaging, display, and optical applications.
This expert's experience includes acrylics, PMMA, polycarbonate, polyester, polyurethane, composites, aerosols, adhesives, thermoplastics, polymer degradation, product liability, and product failure. This expert provides consulting and expert witness services in polymers, plastics, materials, and adhesives.
This expert also has extensive experience as an expert witness, including matters involving coatings, inter partes reviews, post-grant reviews, and patent infringement and non-infringement issues.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #293842
This environmental remediation expert is a senior leader and manager at an environmental and economic development consultancy and has over 20 years of experience in environmental consulting and management.
Areas of expertise include the evaluation and remediation of environmental contamination, environmental due diligence, Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, petroleum and chlorinated solvent site investigations, design and installation of monitoring well networks, aquifer testing, asbestos and biological remediation and project supervision, preparation of facility Spill Prevention Plans for aboveground and underground storage tank facilities, and mold investigation and remediation.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #296243
This toxicology and industrial hygiene expert holds a PhD in Environmental & Occupational Health, a Master of Science in Public Health (Toxicology), and a B.S. in Biological Sciences, and is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, Licensed Mold Assessor, and FAIHA with over 25 years of experience applying expertise in toxicology, industrial hygiene, environmental and occupational health, and indoor air quality to investigate exposures to microbes and chemicals in multiple types of buildings.
This expert is nationally recognized in occupational and environmental risk assessments, workplace exposures, workplace fatality investigations, health care facilities, flame retardants, irritant chemical exposures, indoor air quality, and mold.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #306119
This industrial hygiene and mold expert holds a PhD and CIH credential and has been retained by numerous insurance companies and law firms on various industrial hygiene matters throughout the U.S., including workers' compensation, property damage, personal injury, and wrongful death.
Start Mold Expert SearchExpert Witness #2302114
This mold origination expert is a senior environmental consulting professional with extensive experience providing indoor environmental consulting services and expertise in mold inspections, indoor air quality assessments, mold testing, building science consulting, mold remediation planning, mold remediation services, thermal imaging surveys, environmental tobacco smoke assessments, and former marijuana grow-op assessments. This expert has worked on over 3000 projects involving indoor environmental assessment or remediation services.
This expert is a Certified Commercial Building Mold Inspector and Certified Commercial Building Mold Remediator through a U.S.-based certifying body, and also holds Certified Mold Assessor and Certified Mold Inspector credentials through an environmental association. This expert has provided expert witness consulting services related to mold litigation and testified in court and in tribunals as an expert witness for mold-related hearings.
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