Category: Chemicals / Toxic Substances, Environment, Gulf Coast Oil Spill Expert Articles Damage Claims and Cleanup Estimates for the BP Oil Spill of 2010 TASA ID: 897 Cost recovery for necessary assessment and cleanup costs from an oil spill which started hundreds of miles away on an offshore drilling platform is going to be a large issue for numerous Gulf Coast property owners. Legal action of any sort is a time-consuming affair. There are several types of damage caused by the BP Oil Spill of 2010. Read more
Category: Chemicals / Toxic Substances, Environment, Gulf Coast Oil Spill Expert Articles Lowcost Cleanup Methods for Coastal Sediments and Waterways Impacted by the BP Oil Spill of 2010 TASA ID: 897 Although most of the media is concerned about the obvious floating free product associated with the BP Oil Spill, it is the dissolved contamination that will remain for a long period of time and continue to volatilize, generating the crude oil odors, long after the free product has been mostly cleaned up from the surface of the air-sea interface. Read more
Category: Automotive/Trucking, Insurance Auto Dealer Insurance - Garage Policy: What’s Behind All the Auto Dealer Lawsuits and Claims? TASA ID: 3378 Auto dealers are often targets for lawsuits. Why? After a home purchase, your vehicle is likely the second highest purchase you will make . . . So, it's not difficult to understand why consumers become so passionate when something goes wrong...or appears to have gone wrong. Let's see why: Buyer's remorse . . . Damage claims . . . False Pretense . . . Lemom Law . . . Prior Damage Disclosure . . . " Read more
Category: Insurance Expert Witness Consulting in Insurance and Risk Management and Its Relationship to Research, Service, and Teaching TASA ID: 1747 Oftentimes, insurance and risk management (IRM) professors are asked to serve as either a consulting or testifying expert witness in insurance litigation. Since 1997, I have been retained in about forty cases, primarily by insurance carriers, policyholders, and insurance agents/brokers. Read more
Category: Intellectual Property Patent Infringement Issues By a Patent Agent TASA ID: 1854 An expert in a patent infringement case will just as likely be on the defense. Here, the defense will try to get the patent at issue declared invalid by finding prior art/documentation which would be printed material that predates the invention and shows the same idea as the invention. This prior art/documentation could consist of two or more printed articles that together could be combined to create the invention described in the patent. Read more
