Expert Witness Services

We support our clients involved with construction and repair disputes in courts or arbitration, as well as preparation for mediation. Our early intervention often helps clients avoid litigation - please see our litigation support services or our shipyard project expert witness services.

We have analyzed a number of recreational boating incidents including collisions, fires, falls, and injuries. We have also analyzed casualties involving larger vessels - see more.

When a maritime related personal injury occurs, we can provide you the benefit of our experience in defending or asserting claims resulting from improper design, construction, operation, or training - see more.

Fisher Maritime has extensive experience in analyzing and preventing maritime-related product liability. Our work has involved both plaintiffs and defendants, small and large vessels, and has included the organization of seminars and the development of a book on the topic - see more.

We routinely deal with questions of the potential of exposure of shipboard and shipyard employees to asbestos - see more.

We have prepared several analyses pertaining to the presence of PCBs, lead, and heavy metals at shipyard and ship-scrapping sites in order to address industrial hygiene issues. These analyses can be used as a basis for assigning or recovering clean-up costs - see more.

We have experience with many different types of tugboat, barge and other towed equipment, the various towing modes, Regulatory Body requirements, meteorology, ship handling, etc., all of which has been instrumental in our support of parties involved in tug-barge related cases - see more.