Litigation Support
Product liability cases are the most common form of environmental, safety and health litigation. These cases tend to involve highly technical questions of engineering, material science, exposure allegations, and biological responses.
For this reason, those with expertise in these disciplines play a vital role in educating the litigants, judge and juries. This is particularly true in what are called toxic tort cases, in which those who develop adverse health effects like cancer or birth defect sue manufacturers or vendors of chemical-based products. These cases often involve a range of exposure scenarios (e.g., inhalation of air pollutants, ingestion of contaminated food, or dermal contact with contaminated soil). Toxic tort cases are sometimes brought many years after the alleged exposure and require the input of many types of experts, including physicians, toxicologists, epidemiologists, chemists, statisticians, environmental fate and transport specialists, and engineering control experts.
Litigation can result when a regulatory matter is not successfully resolved during the rulemaking process, or when a stakeholder sues to have the rule modified or invalidated. Litigation also happens when Government agencies choose to enforce their directives, such as compelling a party to clean up a contaminated property, through the courts.
Why Cardno ENTRIX?
Cardno ENTRIX employs a national team of litigation support consultants with extensive experience representing both public and private sector clients on a variety of civil and administrative litigation matters and settlements. We work frequently with industry and agency clients whose core operations require the successful navigation of highly complex regulatory requirements as well as with clients facing claims or potential responsibility for injury to the environment, natural resources or public health.
Our staff excels in distilling scientific and technical complexities into messages persuasive to lawyers, judges and juries. We work to consolidate the findings of various expert witnesses into straightforward assessments of fundamental legal issues, such as whether an exposure is the likely cause of health impairment, and whether the conduct in question departed from accepted standards of care. Our staff has many years of regulatory experience to that allows us to provide expert assistance in regulatory and Agency enforcement actions.
Cardno ENTRIX has supported many clients by:
- Early evaluation of underlying assumptions/site-specific data
- Technical and strategic assistance with discovery
- Evaluation of opposing experts' reports or testimony
- Technical and strategic assistance with negotiating/settlement strategy
- Assistance with deposition/trial strategy
- Graphics/GIS support for presentation of evidence
- Expert testimony in trial or deposition
- Providing affidavits in our areas of expertise and Industry experience
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