The Crash Lab, Inc., has been providing quality plaintiff and defendant accredited crash reconstruction, east of the Mississippi River, to the legal and insurance communities since 1990, with an ~50/50% civil client ratio. We also provide expertise in criminal matters.
Please go directly to our web page @ www.thecrashlab.com for CV's, photos, and other corporation information.
Background
Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:A: ACTAR Accredited Reconstructionist. Please see our web site @ www.thecrashlab.com for further information, including on all of our reconstructionists.
Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
A: Please visit our web site and CV's for the listing, @ www.thecrashlab.com
Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
A: Please visit our web site and CV's for the listing @ www.thecrashlab.com
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Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
A: No.
Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: >1300
Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
A: Examples of some areas would include crash dynamics, time and distance, vehicle and pedestrian velocities, day and nighttime visibility issues, commercial vehicle issues, MUTCD, forensic mapping and lines of sight, low velocity, fraud, body-shop fraud, etc.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: After >1300 cases received, the client base, solely dependant upon incoming phone calls or correspondence, has resulted in a ~50/50% plaintiff/defendant ratio in civil cases.
We also accept criminal cases.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: Please see previous answer.
Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: >80
Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
A: 8/2006
Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
A: >80
Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
A: >80
Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
A: 17 years as a private company. Chip is a retired New Hampshire State Trooper, who was one of the department's, and in-state, original 3 reconstructionists.
Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
A: We provide consulting, report writing, testing and site inspections which include photographs and forensic total station mapping, and vehicle post collision examainations.
Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
A: $175.00
Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
A: $175.00
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
A: $275.00
Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
A: $225.00
Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
A: Reconstructionist travel is $125.00 per hour, plus Fed. rate mileage reimbursement. Field support travel is $75.00 per hour.
Film, copying, etc. are at cost.
Tolls, parking, meals are not charged.
References
John E. Sedgewick, EsquireJulian (Jay)L. Sweet, Esquire
Benjamin R. Gideon, Esquire
Berman & Simmons, P.A.
Post Office Box 961
Lewiston, ME 04243-0961
207-784-3576
David W. Johnston, Esquire
Desmarais, Ewing & Johnston, LLC
175 Canal Street
Manchester, NH 03101
603-623-5524
Mark Shaughnessy, Esquire
Boyle, Morrissey & Campo, P.C.
695 Atlantic Avenue, 11th Floor
Boston, MA 02111
