Alvaro D. Taveira is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Occupational & Environmental Safety & Health at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. He is a Certified Professional Ergonomist by the Board of Certified Professional Ergonomics. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with an emphasis on Human Factors from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He holds a MS degree in Industrial Engineering, with an emphasis in Ergonomics / Product Design, and a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Professor Taveira has over twenty years of professional experience in the fields of Human Factors / Ergonomics and Safety as a college professor, researcher, and consultant. He has conducted projects in multiple work environments including Agriculture, Steel Production, Mining, Railroading, and Office Settings. He has served as an expert witness in the areas of Consumer Product Warnings and Trips and Falls.

Professor Taveira has over 50 peer reviewed publications and has made multiple presentations at national and international conferences. His teaching experience comprises graduate and undergraduate courses in Product Safety, Human Factors / Ergonomics, Behavioral Aspects of Accident Prevention, and in a number of Safety related courses. He is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and of the American Society of Safety Engineers.

Expertise: "Handling Difficult and Complicated Matters" $140 per hour Accidents, Accident Reconstruction, Collisions, Biomechanics, Injuries, Safety Engineering, Seatbelts, Child Seats, Airbags, OSHA Compliance, Industrial Safety, ForkLift Truck, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regs FMCSA, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Regs FMVSS, Material Handling, Cranes, Scaffolds, Ergonomics, Helmets, Products Safety, Motorcycle, Trucks, Bus, Vehicles, Pedestrians, Bicycles, Bikes, Rollovers, Slip Trip & Falls, Animations, Building Codes, Safety Regs, Construction Site Safety, Amusement Rides, Tools, Tires, Vehicle Fires, Construction Equipment, Transportation Regulations, Injuries, Low Speed Impacts, Work Zones, Machine & Equipment Guarding, Human Factors, Hazards, Premesis Liability, Building Codes, Handicap ADA Standards, Regulations, CDR Crash Data Recorder, Mechanical Parts, Brakes, Traffic Signs & Control Devices, Industrial Products, Warning Signs, Ergonomics. 30 years exp. experts, BSOSH, MSOSH, PhD Safety Engineering & Injury Biomechanics, PSP, CECD

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Offices in Long Beach, San Diego & Riverside, CA; Las Vegas, NV & El Paso, TX - Robert Douglas, Operations Manager, former State Forensic Engineer, Registered in California and Arizona, over 35 years of experience in the Accident Reconstruction & Traffic/Transportation/Civil Engineering field. Has provided testimony in 300+ depositions and 30+ trials. Has qualified in Superior Court on Accident Reconstruction; Traffic Engineering; Roadway, Roadside, and Rail Crossing Design and Construction; Off Road Safety; Human Factors; Roadway/Roadside Design, Construction and Maintenance; Wet Weather Accidents, Low Light and/Photo/Video/Computer Animations. A member of ASCE, TRB, National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices , ASTM Committees on Vehicle Pavement Systems, 3D Imaging Systems & Pedestrian walkway Safety, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES), ATSSA, SAE, IEEE (& life member of ITE & Association for Psychological Science), certified: Federal Highway Administration-Work Zone Traffic Control. Providing accredited surveys in both high definition laser surveys & total station surveys, providing exact models constructed from laser "point clouds" (see www.FieldAndTestEngineering.com web site - & Robert Douglas' cv for complete resume & details).

Areas of Expertise

• Accident Reconstruction
• Traffic & Road Design & Engineering
• Human Factors

• Accident Reconstruction, Investigation & Analysis
• Road Design, Construction & Maintenance
• Traffic Engineering, Traffic Control
• Design Immunity
• Human Factors
• Highway Rail Crossings
• Construction Defects
• Surveys: Total Station & Laser Surveying - Site & Vehicle Surveys
• Wet Pavement Accidents — Skid Resistance
• Slips, Trips, Falls on Parking Lots, Sidewalks and Roadways
• Asphalt
• Animation
• Civil Engineering

Leonard Lacaze, P.E. - Accident Reconstruction & Failure Analysis Registered Professional Engineer in the States of Michigan and California. He has over 43 years experience in design & development in the automotive industry in addition to having provided accident reconstruction and failure analysis and research in mechanical and electrical products for vehicles for many of those years. He has testified in over 90 trials, 140 depositions and 125 arbitrations. Mr. Lacaze was on the "ground floor" through the early development of the Air Bag Occupant Restraint System and holds the patent for a crash sensor system that is in many cars today. Along with the air bag development, Mr. Lacaze performed accident reconstruction involving barrier and car-to-car crash testing in order to maximize protection for occupants. He therefore developed a keen sense of occupant kinematics and vehicle structural integrity, in addition to being involved in continuing research methods and accident investigation for more than 30 years.

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Mr. Jerry Zerg, AIA Emiritus, NCARB, ASLA, ASSE, ASID, IIDA, ISP, NCIDQ, IDEC, IES, CSI, CCI, CCPM, FEWA, SAP is a practicing multi-disciplined design and construction professional in the fields of Property Improvements and Furnishings. His initial professional practice began in 1959, his forensic services in 1981.

Mr. Zerg is a practicing professional in all of his disciplines and has been court qualified as an expert witness in all of his disciplines. Approximately 25% of his professional services deal in forensic matters, 50% Plaintiff and 50% Defendant. Mr. Zerg has testified in about 220 depositions, 50 trials and 15 arbitrations. He has testified in Federal and State Courts.

He is President of United Design Associate, Inc., a noted Design and Construction Company since 1959. He is the Dean of Interior Decorators Institute, an educational Institution in the field of interior design.

Mr. Zerg's Professional Designations are Architect, Landscape Architect, General Contractor, Safety Engineer, Interior Designer, Lighting Engineer, Store Planner, Construction Inspector and Certified Construction Project Manager.

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Ralph Aronberg, P.E., has reconstructed over 1,500 accidents and has testified in over 150 jury trials, since founding the firm in 1983. He provides Expert Witness services in the areas of:

Dr. Rolin Barrett is a Licensed Professional Forensic Engineer who provides extensive experience to industries, governmental agencies, insurance companies, attorneys and individuals. His Forensic Engineering Consultation Services have been utilized in nearly 4,000 Cases.

Forensic Analysis and Accident Investigations Include:

• Autos, Trucks, Motorcycles, Airplanes, Conveyors, Forklifts and Other Vehicles or Industrial Trucks
• Construction - Textiles, Plastic Molding, Woodworking, Food Processing, Welding, Equipment Capabilities, Ladders, Elevators, Automatic Doors and On-Site Safety Adequacy
• Origins and Causes of Industrial Accidents - Building Damage Possibly Resulting from Military Ordinance and Commercial Blasting, Electrical Shock Following Contact with Power Lines or Various Types of Equipment
• Equipment Malfunctions and Violations of Codes and Standards- Violent Propulsion of Bottle Stoppers, Compressed Gas Cylinders, Slip Resistance of Various Walking Surfaces, Hoist Mechanisms, Chain and Wire Rope

B.E.C. Consulting, LLC was established in 1982. Since that time, we have provided top-level consulting engineering services and accident reconstruction to our clients; law firms, insurance companies, state and local agencies, manufacturing companies, and clients who are seeking product design analysis and other engineering related services.

Our engineers represent a broad range of engineering disciplines which enables us to work on a variety of cases using the team approach. The teams at B.E.C are comprised of Engineers, Technical Specialists, Graphics Specialists as well as Research and Administrative Personnel, so that each case is given personal attention and is handled efficiently and effectively. We are located in Tallahassee, Florida, but are active in AL, GA, MS, TN and SC. We have worked in almost every state in the United States, including Alaska.

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Dr. Richard Collins, Former University Professor of Biomedical and Human Factors Engineering, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Collins has Demonstrated Accuracy in Research and Scientific Analysis in Mechanical and Biomechanical Engineering and Regulatory Assessments.

His work has been Extensively Published in National and International peer-reviewed Literature. He is an Internationally recognized engineering and medical expert, having earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Collins is qualified as an expert witness in civil and criminal courts.

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Charles A. Budnick, PLS has over 43 years of experience as a licensed Land Surveyor. Mr. Budnick has over 30 years of experience as an Expert Witness and Consultant to forensic consultants and the legal profession. His services have been requested by both the public and private sector.

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H. Harvey Cohen, Ph.D., CPE – Dr. Cohen is the Senior Partner of EAI. He has over 35 years of professional experience in Human Factors and Safety. A former Federal government research scientist, Dr. Cohen has over 150 refereed publications, including 8 books and book chapters, has investigated over 7,500 injury accidents, has given over 1,250 depositions and has testified in court on over 350 occasions, equally for plaintiff and defense, in 38 states, territories and Canadian provinces.

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Profile: Consolidated Consultants company (CCc) provides broad-based Expert Witness and Medical Expert Witness Referrals on a national level. CCc's experienced Professionals cover many fields, professions, and medical, technical and scientific disciplines. Please contact us toll free @ 800-683-9847 for additional information.

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David B. Spiegler, CCM has more than 40 years of proven experience in providing expertise across a broad spectrum of activities involving Meteorology, Climatology, and the Environment. Since the 1980s, he has provided expert analysis for more than 50 law firms and insurance companies on weather related legal and/or insurance claims. Mr. Spiegler has worked on cases in a number of states and has testified in district and superior courts, at arbitration hearings, and at environmental regulatory hearings. He has always been found to be qualified by the court.

Mr. Spiegler's cases range from slip and fall accidents, to motor vehicle, aircraft, and boating accidents, wrongful death and homicide, as well as cases for which damage to – or loss of – property from wind , snow, heavy rain, flooding, and ocean waves occurred. For many cases, he visited the site of the event and evaluated the physical and terrain factors. For all cases, he acquired, analyzed, and interpreted the weather data, reconstructed the weather at the time and location of the event/incident and/or damage or loss, and provided expert opinion and rationale for the opinion.

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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

Draganich Consulting, Inc. provides consultation, expert witness testimony and trial support in injury biomechanics, clinical orthopaedics, failure analysis and patent validity.

Louis Draganich, Ph.D. has 30 years of academic experience in biomechanics and orthopaedic research, several patents on total knee replacements and more than 11 years of experience in consulting and injury biomechanics.

Both plaintiffs' and defense attorneys have retained Dr. Draganich for cases involving:

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Dr. Ellie Francis, Ph.D., is a Visual and Human Factors Expert. She graduated in 1988, Vanderbilt University. O.D., 1998, New England College of Optometry. Dr. Francis has consulted as an expert witness in numerous cases since 1987 involving Perceptual and Clinical Issues and Accidents and is available for both Plaintiff and Defense.

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Ellis Litigation Support (ELS) is headed by Dr. J. Nigel Ellis a leading authority on fall protection. Dr. Ellis has more than 35 years of safety engineering experience. Based upon his unsurpassed experience and knowledge, Dr. Ellis has performed fall hazard assessments in hundreds of facilities and construction sites and has been retained as an expert witness in approximately 1000 fall-related cases nationwide. Dr. Ellis’ participation has led to multi-million dollar settlements/awards in a number of cases and exoneration of defendants in others.

Through his work with OSHA and as an ANSI and ASTM committee member, including providing comments and testimony before OSHA hearings, Dr. Ellis has been instrumental in the development of various OSHA regulations and ANSI standards. Dr. Ellis has written the seminal textbook, Introduction to Fall Protection currently in its third edition and published by the American Society of Safety Engineers and available for purchase on the ELS web site www.FallSafety.com.

Dr. Ellis is a founder and board member of the International Society for Fall Protection and is a frequent speaker at the national conventions of the American Society of Safety Engineers and the National Safety Council. Dr. Ellis also is a published member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers and is a regular contributor to Compliance Magazine and the Greyhouse Safety Directory.

ELS also draws upon its sister company, Ellis Fall Safety Solutions (EFSS), to offer expertise in a wide range of engineering related matters.

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Florida Forensic Engineering, Inc. (FFEI) was established by Richard K. Spears, Ph.D., P.E., in 1988. Elliot L. Stern, Ph.D., P.E., joined Dr. Spears several years ago as principal engineers with Florida Forensic Engineering, Inc. FFEI continues to provide exceptional consulting engineering to our clients; plaintiff and defense law firms, insurance companies, state and local agencies, and individuals and independent businesses.

Dr. Spears' expertise includes Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Materials Science, Metallurgical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Traffic Control, and Biomechanics. As a principal consultant engineer with Florida Forensic Engineering, Inc., in their Largo, FL office, Dr. Spears is involved with numerous projects that require mechanical, structural and materials engineering expertise. He is a member of SAE Automobile Accident Investigation Practices Standards Committee and ASTM F13 committee. His areas of expertise include:

Firm Profile: Global Technology Experts, Inc. (founded 1996) has investigated 350+ failures that included slip and fall, lift trucks, bicycle failures, electrical failures, battery failures, construction defects, automotive bumpers, airplane and engine component failures, automotive axle, weld joints, aluminum, titanium, polymers, ceramics and composite materials. Life assessment and durability of prototype components etc.

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