Dr. Chris Coggins is a Board-Certified Toxicologist, a qualification he has held since 1986. He is a Principal in Carson Watts Consulting, with special expertise in Inhalation Toxicology, General Toxicology, Toxicological Pathology and Epidemiology.

Dr. Coggins' services include technical assistance in various aspects of Inhalation Toxicology, including Study Design, Exposure Methods, Study Monitoring, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, and Collation of such data into Reports and Publications in the peer-reviewed Scientific Literature. He provides similar services in the Disciplines of General Toxicology, Toxicologic Pathology, and Epidemiology. Dr. Coggins also provides Testimony as an Expert Board-Certified Witness in the Toxicology Disciplines.

Dr. Coggins has published extensively on the Toxicology of Tobacco Smoke. In addition to Publishing, he has also acted as a Reviewer for many Scientific Journals, including several of the journals in which Studies on Tobacco Toxicology are Published.

EPICON Associates, LLC, is comprised of a mufti-disciplinary team of scientists and physicians. We offer support in all aspects of health-related litigation, including:

Medical literature search and article retrieval, and reference library development and maintenance.

Quantitative and qualitative estimates of disease frequency and other events associated with industrial, occupational, environmental, and pharmacologic exposures.

Reviews and interpretation of animal studies and toxicology data and reports.

Reviews and interpretation of industrial hygiene data and reports.

Expert reports, depositions, and expert witness testimony in selected areas.

Consultation, review and referral to occupational and preventive medicine physicians.

Ernest P. Chiodo, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., M.S., C.I.H. is a physician, attorney, Certified Industrial Hygienist (C.I.H), and biomedical engineer. Dr. Chiodo is board certified in the specialties of Internal Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. Dr. Chiodo served as the Medical Director of the City of Detroit and was the chief physician in charge of measures designed to protect the public health of over one million persons. He has also been the lead expert witness in a number of high profile cases including serving as the lead expert witness in a mass toxic tort case for Gerry Spence.

Areas of Expertise:

Toxicology

Epidemiology

Industrial Hygiene

Mold

Asbestos

Benzene

Biomedical Engineering

Accident Reconstruction

Electrocution

Building Related Disease

Biomechanics

Bed Bugs

Healthcare Litigation Support is a team of experts - physicians, healthcare administrators, reimbursement specialists, health organization experts, health insurance experts, and other healthcare personnel - with broad, extensive experience and expertise in medical and administrative malpractice issues, physician practice operations, hospital management, health insurance and TPA issues, Medicare and Medicaid, medical billing and collections, fraud and abuse, managed care and other areas.

Healthcare Litigation Support is a team of experienced healthcare experts who consult on litigation issues and testify as needed. In addition to the four Principals, there is a larger group of Associates, individuals with specific expertise and areas of knowledge, we include in order to fully serve the needs of the legal community.

Areas of Expertise:

Audit Medical Standards of Care Dental Standards of Care Geriatrics and Nursing Home Care Standards Long Term Care Standards Health Insurance Health Insurer-Provider Relations Managed Healthcare (HMO, PPO)

TPA (Third Party Administrator National Accreditation Guidelines Medicare / Medicaid Federal Employees Health Benefits Program CDH (Consumer Driven Health Plans) ERISA, COBRA, EMTALA, HIPAA Physician / Hospital Joint Ventures Qui Tam and False Claims Act

Representing Both Plaintiff and Defense, Our Services Include:

Review Case for Merit

Analyze Medical and Administrative Events

Identify Causation

Address Standards of Care

Research Relevant Literature

Interpret Contracts in Light of Industry Standards

Evaluate Case Strengths and Weaknesses

Develop Deposition Strategy

Prepare a Defensible Report

Articulate Complex Issues to Triers of Fact

Healthcare Consulting, Public Health, Preventive Medicine, Expert Medical Witness Consulting

Dr. Joel L. Nitzkin is a Public Health Physician, Board Certified in Preventive Medicine. He has been the Director of local and state health departments, President of two national public health organizations and Board member and Chair of the Board Evaluation Committees of several hospital enterprizes and healthcare plans.

As a consultant, I have served as a "Mr. Fix-it" for broken, dysfunctional or sub-optimal preventive and ancillary service programs and as a general aid to addressing accreditation and licensure issues. The secret to my success is my unique combination of medical knowledge, epidemiological skill and policy/management/finance training and experience.

Dr. Lawrence S. Mayer is a full-time professor and a part-time consultant in epidemiology and biostatistics who focuses on data analysis and models used in risk estimation. Dr. Mayer is one of the few MD/PhD biostatistician-epidemiologists. He is a professor of biostatistics, epidemiology, public health and medicine. He trained as a physician, a medical epidemiologist and then as a statistician and biostatistician. Dr. Mayer prides himself on being able to communicate complex ideas in simple language. His areas of expertise focuses on the analysis of the inferences made from a given set of epidemiological or biostatistical methods. He has worked on problems in drug and device development and regulation, product liability, patent disputes, occupational and environmental exposures, medical malpractice, and data/model interpretation in numerous specialties including internal medicine, toxicology, psychiatry, Ob/Gyn, and surgery.Dr. Mayer has given about 50 depositions over 30 years in a variety of cases

Theron Blickenstaff, MD, MPH, FACOEM offers litigation support for both defense and plaintiff in the following areas:

Medical Record Reviews

Disability Consultation

Workers' Compensation

Product Liability Cases Involving Chemical Exposures

Epidemiology (Cancer Causation)

Hazard Communication (Material Safety Data Sheets and Labels)

Indoor Air Quality (Sick Building Syndrome)

Dr. Blickenstaff's services include case review, affidavits, depositions and courtroom testimony.

A fee schedule is available on request.

Vera F. Dolan is an Epidemiologist with over 30 years in the life insurance and related industries. Her areas of expertise include life expectancy calculations, life underwriting medical history misrepresentation, life underwriting and risk assessment issues, and impaired risk underwriting assumptions.