Burl Daniel, CPCU, CIC, CRM entered the Insurance Industry in 1973 and was an Insurance Agency Principal for twenty three years. He is retained as a Property and Casualty Insurance Expert Witness by defense and plaintiff counsel. His career includes broad expertise across all lines of Property and Casualty insurance. Burl Daniel Associates is well-known in the legal community for responsiveness to attorney inquiries, depth of insurance knowledge and attention to detail. Their methodical case analysis, independent research and concise presentation of opinions results in credibility with juries and the courts. Representative industries include clients in Construction, Energy, Transportation, Manufacturing, Technology, Financial Institutions, Non-Profits, and Import/Export.

Mr. Daniel has the requisite knowledge to render opinions in the following areas of expertise:

Insurance Coverage Expert Insurance Agent (Broker) Error & Omission Insurance Bad Faith Commercial Auto Insurance Workers Compensation Commercial General Liability Insurance Product Liability Insurance Commercial Umbrella Excess & Surplus Lines Insurance Personal Auto and Umbrella Professional Liability (Errors & Omissions)

Claims Made Insurance Directors & Officers Liability Insurance Employment Practices Liability Property Insurance Expert Boiler & Machinery / Equipment Breakdown Business Interruption / Business Income Flood Insurance Inland & Ocean Marine Insurance Crime Insurance / Fidelity Bonds Reinsurance Claims Handling Custom & Practice

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Fisher Maritime - Our purpose is to provide quality consulting services to the maritime and offshore industries, and expert witness services consistent with our field of practice. Topics include contracts and disputes in shipbuilding, asbestos in ships, shipboard injuries, and boating accidents.

With over 30 years of experience in claims involving millions of dollars Fisher Maritime is no stranger to the intricacies of litigation, but is grounded solidly in experience in the fields of boating, maritime construction, and maritime operation.

Fisher Maritime’s professional society accredited training programs have been given worldwide to 3,000+ participants from 24 countries and over 400 organizations.

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Donald J. Green, Commander, USCG (Retired) spent 23 years actively engaged in U.S. Coast Guard operations. Over the last decade, he has brought that experience to bear as a marine consultant, and expert witness. His company, KDON Marine Consulting is a network of qualified individuals with specialties that can address virtually any need.

Areas of Expertise

Accident Investigation & Reconstruction

Commercial Damages

Contract Disputes

Personal Injury/Wrongful Death (Including Collisions, Grounding and Sinkings)

Commercial Vessel Operations (Including Investigations & Evaluation)

KDON, co-operating with the Houston Exam-Prep Center, offers training to help you prepare for Marine Licensing and Certification. Together, they provide courses in Coast Guard Safety Rules & Regulations, Safe Operating Practices, Navigation Rules & Regulations, Radar Use, and Vessel Manning.

S. Douglas Devoy has over 30 years experience in Marine and Offshore Oil and Gas Industry acting as Senior Vice President / Director of Matthews-Daniel Company, Houston, Texas with worldwide group responsibility for Marine Surveys. He supervises staff and performs all types of Marine related Surveys including Wet and Dry Ocean Transport of Rigs, Structures, Modules and Equipment, Trip-in-Tow Surveys, Loss Investigations, Safety and Valuation Surveys or Marine Equipment and Warranty Surveys, and Location Approvals.

Mr. Devoy has Coordinated Salvage Efforts and Negotiated Salvage Contracts on behalf of Underwriters and Owners. He has also supervised all aspects of Ocean Tows / Voyages including all Engineering Aspects. Adjusting Marine and Energy Related Losses.

Areas of Expertise Include:

Marine Surveying of Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

Marine Accident Investigation Naval Architecture

Marine Engineering

Engineering Technology

Accident Investigation and Loss Adjustment for Offshore Oil and Gas Industry

Valuations for Offshore Oil & Gas Industry Assets

Michael A. Jacobs has over 40 years experience in the Maritime and Offshore Oil and Gas Industries including an Active Seagoing Career as an Deck Officer on Tankers and Bulk Carriers, Terminal Controller in a Container Terminal responsible for the Loading and Discharging of Ocean-Going Container Vessels, and Master / Offshore Installation Manager of Semi-Submersible Drilling Rigs. Capt.Jacobs is also a Marine Surveyor involved with all types of surveys in the offshore industry including Towages, Heavy Lift Transportation, Damage Surveys, Installation of Oil Related Structures, Modules and Equipment, Rig Move Attendance and Rig Location Approval.

Areas of Expertise Include:

Marine Operations in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry Admiralty; Accidents Involving Dock, Shipboard and Offshore Cranes Anchor-handling, Towing and Mooring Incidents Swing Rope and Personnel Basket Worker Transfer Accidents Pipeline Damage Cargo and Cargo Container Damage

Hurricane and Heavy Weather Damage Mooring System Failures Anchor-handling Operational Failures Towing System failures Rig Moves Mobile Offshore Drilling Units Collision

David L. Stegall is an Insurance Expert with over 30 years of experience in Insurance, Self-Insurance, Reinsurance and Risk Management. He has underwritten, marketed, developed and sold traditional insurance products. Mr. Stegall has implemented self-insured programs for qualified self-insurers, created self-insured funds, developed captive insurance companies, created national programs, and placed reinsurance for both standard and alternative programs.

We provide expert witness services and testimony in disputes, arbitration and litigation as well as comprehensive risk and management consulting services.

Areas of Expertise:

Agents, Brokers, Underwriters Alternative Risk Transfer Automobile Insurance Bad Faith Captive Insurance Companies Errors and Omissions Fair Claim Practices Liability Insurance

Managing General Agents Professional Liability Property and Casualty Insurance Reinsurance & Self-insurance Underwriting Management Usual and Customary Practices Wind, Hurricane, Flood Workers Compensation

Captain John C. Timmel is a Tampa Bay Harbor Pilot and president of Starboard Ten, Inc. -a maritime consulting, expert witness and litigation services group. He has more than thirty years of seafaring and over ten years of litigation support experience. This experience and the ability to explain complex concepts in an easily understood and cogent manner, uniquely qualify him to render litigation support and compelling testimony in commercial and non-commercial maritime cases as either a plaintiff or defense expert. His accomplishments include:

Leading the development of a GPS carry-on navigation system

Founding the American Victory Mariners Memorial & Museum Ship

Serving as President and Chairman of the Tampa Propeller Club and on the Executive Steering Committee of the National Propeller Club

Being selected as the National Propeller Club's 2001 International Maritime Person of the Year

Areas of Expertise:

Shiphandling & Seamanship

Navigation & Piloting

Rules of the Road

Ship Operations

Tugs & Barges

Pleasure Craft & Yachting Accidents

Services:

Expert Admiralty Testimony

Qualified Opinions

Case Evaluation

Maritime/Boating, Jetski, Waverunner & PWC Accident Analysis