Robert John Anders is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America and the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society with more than 40 years of professional experience. Mr. Anders has been retained as an Industrial Design Expert for over 17 years.

During his academic career as a tenured Professor at Pratt Institute, he lectured internationally and had written and taught Universal Design and the ADA.

Mr. Anders' Areas of Expertise Include:

• Industrial Design - Consumer Product, Furniture, Packaging and Retail Design
• Human Factors
• ADA and Design Management
• Intellectual Property - utility and design patents, trademarks, trade dress and copyright infringement

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Albert Ferrari, P.E., C.S.P. is a Mechanical Engineer and Safety Professional experienced in both the micro and in the macro focus. Mr. Ferrari is particularly sensitive to reliability, safety, and function. His Forensic Engineering experience includes 25 years in Accident Reconstruction, Causal Analysis, Failure Analysis, Codes, Standards and Regulations, Consulting and Testimony.

Mr. Ferrari provides Expert Witness Consulting and Testimony services to Defense attorneys, Plaintiff attorneys, Claims adjusters and Insurance companies.

Engineering Work Includes:

Automotive Engineering

Pedestrian Facilities

Machine Design

Thermal and Mechanical Energy Analysis

Structural Load and Stress Analysis

Piping and Tanks

System Safety and Human Factors Analysis for Design of Hazardous Equipment

Evaluations Include

Cause of Injury, Loss and Damage

Adequacy of Products, System, Materials

Standard of Care of Design, Use, Repair

Cause and Origin of Fires; Arson

Services Include:

Investigation and Consultation

Diagnostics, Testing and Analysis

Technical Photography and Video

Literature and Standards Studies

Codes and Regulations Analysis

Reports and Testimony

Evaluations

Sterling Anthony specializes in product liability/personal injury involving packaging, labeling, and warnings. His 30-plus years of experience were gained through careers in industry, academia, and consulting. Expertise covers consumer and industrial goods. Credits include many publications and speaking engagements.

Areas of Expertise:

Package Research & Development

Package Design

Labeling & Warnings

Palletizing & Unitizing

Regulatory Compliance

Performance Testing

Falling Merchandise

Human Factors & Ergonomics

Professional Certifications:

Packaging

Materials Handling

Materials Management

Purchasing

Product & I

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Bison is a multi-disciplined engineering firm specializing in failure analysis, forensic engineering and fire sciences with a team of P.E.'s who have performed thousands of forensic assignments including in excess of 1,000 fuel gas investigations.

Legal professionals turn to Bison to scientifically conduct investigations to determine the cause of destructive events. Forensic Engineers provide expert testimony and consultation. Investigations include explosions, fires, carbon monoxide incidents, electrical fires and failures, structural failures, mechanical failures, accident reconstruction, specialized testing, and courtroom presentations:

Fuel Gas Incidents: Fire and Explosion Causation; Propane Explosions, Natural Gas Explosion, Gas Delivery Systems; Carbon Monoxide Testing and Evaluation, Production and Migration Investigations; Plant & Pipeline, Piping Evaluation; Operational Analysis; Appliance Evaluation; Code Compliance; Soil Gas Migration; Vapor Dispersion

Fire Investigation and Explosion Analysis: Cause and Origin, Scene Documentation; Collection of Evidence; Certified Fire Investigator

Electrical Engineering: Electrically Related Fires, Electrical Service and Wiring Failures, Production Facility Service and Controls for Chemical, Petroleum, and Distribution Facilities, Electrical Contacts, Electrocutions; Lightning Strikes

Mechanical Engineering: Equipment Design and Operation; High-Pressure Oilfield Equipment; Pump Design and Operation; HVAC Systems; High and Low-Pressure Seals; Plastic Part Design and Manufacture, Industrial Equipment

Accident Reconstruction: Accident Sequence Reconstruction; Speed, Time and Distance Calculations; Crush Damage; Braking; Steering and Mechanical Analysis, including Tires; Electrical System / Electronic Failures; Mechanical and Fuel Systems; Airbag and Seatbelt Fatalities/Injuries; Staged Vehicle Impact

Failure Analysis: Industrial Equipment, Vehicle Impacts, Airbags and Seat Belts; Elevator Failures; Helmet and other Protective Equipment Failures; Infant Crib Design Inadequacies; Carbon Monoxide Investigations, Crane Failures, etc.

Metallurgical Engineering: Metal Fatigue of Gas Compressor Components; Electrical Contact Evaluations; Cracking of Structural Plastics; Chemical Analysis; Corrosion & Stress Evaluation and Analysis; SEM Analysis; Electron/Optical Microscopy; X-ray Examination

Bison's clients argue their cases with confidence, secure in the knowledge that their claims are based on unbiased, scientific data.

National Expert Witness And
Consulting Service For Attorneys

KHB CONSULTING SERVICES provides research, consulting and expert witness services to the legal profession for cases involving:

Chemicals Paints and coatings Chemical specialty products Household chemical products Industrial chemicals Hazardous materials

Labels and warnings Toxic substances Aerosols OSHA Chemical spills Chemical explosions

We provide:

Translation of technical terminology File review Research Field site visits Laboratory testing/analysis

Reports Strategy assistance during discovery Deposition Testimony

The primary areas of expertise are:

Chemistry Chemicals Industrial Chemicals Household Chemicals Paint and Coatings Adhesives and Sealants Chemical Specialty Products Solvents Fumes Hazardous Materials Aerosols and Spray Products

Labels and Warning Toxic Substances Polymers / Resins / Plastics MSDS Review OSHA Laboratory testing and Analysis Failure Analysis Propellants Chemical Spills Chemical Accidents

Catherine Downs is a Product Safety Recall & Compliance Consultant. She provides consulting services to individuals, companies and law firms relating to the safety of consumer products, adherence to federal regulations and compliance with federal standards, regulations and laws. Her services include, but are not limited to:

• Advising manufacturers, retailers, importers and distributors on their reporting obligations under the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and section 15(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA)
• Analyzing the "Substantial Hazard Product" standard under the CPSA
• Assisting companies in designing good, far reaching corrective action\recall programs
• Understanding Standard of Care issues and addressing CPSC's compliance obligations

Ms. Downs has experience working for CPSC's Office of Compliance, Emerging Hazards Program and Injury program, as well as the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Fatality Analysis Report System.

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Prof. Vernon M. Neppe - Pacific Neuropsychiatric Institute

Internationally renowned Neuropsychiatrist, Behavioral Neurologist, Psychopharmacologist, Psychiatrist, Forensic specialist (Listed in these areas under peer-selected book America's Top Doctors [apparently the only MD in 5 sub-specialties/ specialties] and listed in all 11 editions]. Dr. Neppe is also an internationally recognized Epilepsy specialist and Consciousness researcher.

He is an experienced, peer-respected clinician, and is a pioneering researcher (where his contributions have directly impacted millions.). He is an extensively published (350+) academic, author of eight books (including Cry the Beloved Mind, Reality Begins with Consciousness , How Attorneys Can Best Utilize Their Medical Expert Witness, Innovative Psychopharmacotherapy , and also a playwright (2 plays). He is an in-demand communicator (professional speaker, media), creativity specialist (Executive Director, and Distinguished Professor, Exceptional Creative Achievement Organization), incisive thinker (past chess champion), and a versatile multi-specialty civil medicolegal expert (defense or plaintiff)

. Dr Neppe led the first USA and International Delegation in Psychopharmacology and Neuropsychiatry

Expertise includes

head injury, brain disturbances, personal injury,

medications,

seizures,

malpractice,

stress

Nutrition supplements specialist

Tardive dyskinesia specialist

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome specialist

Vegetative / Minimal Consciousness states.

At times, he's consulted in several different areas in the same case e.g. medications, brain damage, psychiatry, movement disorders or seizures, depression, anxiety, bipolar, psychosis, attention deficit

Honors: Best Doctors in America

Who's Who in the World

Ebook: How Attorneys Can Best Utilize Their Medical Expert Witness

Prof. Neppe also has dual MD and PhD (Med) plus Board Certified UCNS Behavioral Neurology, Neuropsychiatry and Am Brd Psychiatry and Neurology (BC Psychiatry, subspec: Forensic Psychiat-04, Geriat Psychiat-11) & DPM (with Neurology & Psychiatry). Additionally,

Fellow Royal Society, SA (app. first USA MD so honored) FFPsych(SA),

Distinguished Fellow, American Psychiatric Association

Additionally, MMed (Psych), DABFM, DABFE, DABPS (Psychopharm), FACFE, FCPsych, FRCPC,-10. DSPE

Diplomate and Senior Research Fellow, International Society for Philosophical Enquiry;

Medicolegal expert consultations throughout the USA and beyond including Canada. but works only with attorneys in Civil suits (Plaintiff or Defense --profound settlements on both sides giving appropriate medical analyses) or Competency (not Criminal); retained throughout USA and internationally. This includes high profile cases.

Dr. C.J. Abraham, P.E. is a Certified Professional Chemical Engineer with over thirty years of international experience consulting to insurance companies, municipalities, government agencies, and the legal profession. He provides consultation to International corporations in the areas of New Product Development, Manufacturing, Packaging, Warnings and Instructions. Dr Abraham's services include Expert Witness Testimony for both Plaintiff and Defense in matters involving Personal Injury and Product Liability.

Areas of Expertise:

Construction Accidents OSHA ADA Labor Law Human Factors Household / Industrial Products Safety Engineering

Retail Store Safety Industrial Hygiene Textiles Fires / Explosions / Flammable Fabrics Slips / Falls Recreational / Sports Accidents Toxic Exposures

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Dr. Robert C. Sugarman, P.E. , provides expert testimony in criminal and personal injury trials (both defense and plaintiff) with a unique combination of expertise in Physics and Human Factors Psychology.

Personal injury analyst with 40 years in human factors R&D; teaching; trial testimony and accident simulation and mockups; development of industrial operations, environmental health & safety, and maintenance industrial training for light to heavy industry; worked "in the trenches". Fellow of the Human Factors & Ergonomics Society; staff at SUNY/Buffalo; contributor to ANSI design standard.

BA, MS, SM, PhD; physics, psychology; Purdue, MIT, SUNY/Buffalo

Areas of Expertise:

Product and Equipment Design Medical Equipment Errors Perception and Vision Instructions and Procedures Warnings and Labels Individual Differences Training

Human Factors Industrial Accidents Vehicle Accidents Construction Accidents Slip and Fall Ergonomics and Workplace Layout Physics and Optics

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Dennis W. Eckstine is an expert on cranes, aerial work platforms, various types of lifting equipment, heavy duty trucks, carriers, and other similiar construction, industrial and agricultural equipment. He has held senior positions in engineering, quality, product safety and reliability for major manufacturers including representing the company at trial. Through his active involvement in current standards committees, his education, and his engineering and product safety experience at Grove Worldwide he brings a solid scientific and practical background to his clients.

He was previously Vice President, Senior Director of Product Safety & Reliability, and Director of Engineering Administration for different major manufacturers. He possesses a BSME and MBA. Mr. Eckstine started as a full time employee in the construction equipment industry in 1971 for Grove.

He is currently a member of numerous committees within the organizations of ANSI (American National Standards Institute), SAE (Society of Automotive Engineering), ISO, and National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators. Mr. Eckstine was the founding International Chairman of ISO TC 214 for Elevating Work Platforms. He is currently International Chairman of ISO TC 96 SC 6 for Mobile Cranes, and a Commissioner of CCO.

Services Offered

Expert on construction, industrial and agricultural equipment

Evaluate Product to Promote Safe Design and Safe Use of Equipment

Hazard Analysis, Design Review, Warnings Development, Safety and Operational Training

Offer Guidance on Human Factors

CIE - Certified Industrial Ergonomist

Develop Standards for Design and Safe Use of Products

Develop Training Materials and Perfrom Training for Operators of Lifting Equipment Including Cranes and Aerial Work Platforms

Conduct Presentations at Seminars and Work Shops