Since December 2025 I am a ISO/IEC 17024 Certified Expert Witness for plastics and plastics products, offering worldwide expert witness services in plastics and plastic products, with following core services and capabilities:
1. Failure Analysis & Root Cause Determination: investigation and determination why a plastic product or component failed, whether it's due to design flaws, material defects, manufacturing issues, environmental degradation, or misuse.
2. Product Liability & Personal Injury Cases: Support where plastic products have caused injury or property damage. This involves assessing design safety, manufacturing quality, adherence to standards, and user warnings.
3. Intellectual Property (IP) Disputes: Patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and other IP-related matters involving plastics and plastic products. This includes analyzing polymer formulations, manufacturing processes, product designs, or material properties to determine infringement.
4. Manufacturing & Processing Defects: Investigating issues which are arising during the manufacturing process, such as injection molding defects, extrusion problems, material contamination, or improper processing parameters leading to product deficiencies.
5. Material Selection & Compatibility: Provide expert opinions on whether the optimal plastic material was chosen for a specific application, considering environmental conditions, stress factors, and compatibility with other materials.
6. Regulatory Compliance & Standards Adherence: Reviewing relevant international and national standards (e.g., ISO, ASTM, REACH, RoHS, FDA regulations for medical devices/food contact) and ability to assess a product's compliance.
7. Recycling Plastics: Investigation of failures and liability issues caused by using recycled plastics.
8. Consulting & Pre-Litigation Support: Beyond formal expert witness testimony, offering early-stage case evaluation, technical advice, literature reviews, and strategic guidance to legal teams and companies.