Expert Witness and Forensic Consulting

Expert witnesses from all kinds of backgrounds are called on to provide expert testimony on everything from accounting to medicine to engineering and more. Courts allow detailed trial exhibits and qualified computer animation as litigation support.

As a result, it is more crucial than ever to tap the resources of highly skilled, articulate and experienced expert witnesses – such as those available at Crane Engineering. Crane's experts have decades of experience giving depositions, preparing for trial, presenting their findings and being cross-examined in a court of law. The key to it all stands with thorough development of the technical case with the legal client. In the courtroom, potentially complex issues are made as understandable as possible to a layperson – through written documentation, oral testimony and explanatory exhibits.

Crane Engineering can provide you with:

• Expert testimony
• Technical standards research
• Photographic documentation
• Physical exhibits for trial use
• Test results projected via video, DVD or other media

Forensic consulting. While the definition of 'consulting' is obvious, the meaning of 'forensic' is another matter. For Crane Engineering, forensic consulting means applying engineering principles, using scientific method, to resolve issues of fact that may have legal consequences. Crane's experts may find failures of fuel-gas equipment that result in fire, explosions or carbon monoxide. Or they may trace incidents to failures of structures, doors, chairs, lawn mowers, wheelchairs and more.

When the Crane Engineering team works to analyze what went wrong, they attempt to understand the conditions existing at the time of the failure; then develop and test the hypothesis that can provide the explanation of the events.

For example, the company's architectural expert can decipher the possible failures of architectural designs or planning decisions and determine if structures and environments are in compliance with relevant codes and regulations.

Crane Engineering provides:

• Engineering case analysis
• Consulting experts and peer review
• Discovery assistance
• Technical standards research