Litigation and Risk Management

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Litigation and Risk Management

• By Anderson Materials Evaluation

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• Anderson Materials Evaluation, Inc. has worked
  with many law firms, forensic engineering firms,
  and insurance companies to assess risk management
  issues and to assist in technical litigation
  issues involving materials and their properties.
• AME has worked on numerous cases involving
  evaluations of corrosion and other failures in
  building water systems, air conditioning systems,
  and sprinkler systems.  We have investigated the
  etching of window glass by concrete and stonework
  cleaning compounds. We have analyzed the chemical
  destruction of a concrete and stone facades, the
  corrosion of metal facades and window and door
  frames, the fire retardants in cedar roofing
  shakes, the causes of water penetration of
  mortars and asphalt-based and other sealants.  We
  proved conclusively that damage to plate glass
  windows was caused by welding splatter.  We
  determined that high atrium plate glass windows
  had shattered due to microscopic inclusions of
  nickel sulfide.

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• We proved that the manufacturer accused of
  producing a noxious odor-producing foam material
  was not in fact the manufacturer of the
  odoriferous foam.  We proved that a camouflage
  suit had not been treated with fire retardants as
  was claimed.  We determined that eye glasses that
  were claimed to have safety glass lenses did not.
   We determined the cause of massive corrosion in
  an aluminum swimming pool ladder that caused a
  personal injury to assist five companies involved
  in various aspects of its manufacture and use to
  determine how to apportion the costs of a court
  injury award among themselves.  The problem was a
  sulfuric anodization process that could not
  subsequently be exposed to an environment with
  high chlorine concentrations.
• We determined the cause of failure for aluminum
  alloy welds in a dump truck.  We measured the
  static coefficient of friction of a coating
  applied on a swimming pool deck and showed that
  it provided high traction even when wet due to a
  high surface roughness on three size scales,
  contrary to a plaintiffs claims that it was
  slippery when wet. 

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• We proved that poor quality controls of an
  adhesive widely used to adhere laminate to
  cabinetry was responsible for many adhesive
  failures due to separation of adhesive
  ingredients and crystallization of the resin with
  ageing.
• Law Firms
• Anderson, Coe King, LLP
• Bacon, Thornton Palmer, LLP
• Cranfill Sumner Hartzog LLP
• Crosswhite, McKenna, Limbrick Sinclair, LLP
• Digney York Associates, LLC
• Finkelstein Goldman, P.C.
• John J. Fausti Associates, LLC
• Hogan Lovells US LLP
• Kenyon Kenyon LLP
• Knapp, Ohl Green
• Lakin Lakin

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• Law Offices of Joel B. Albert, P.C.
• Merchant Gould
• Patterson Belknap Webb Tyler LLP
• Robol Law Office, LLC
• Rogin Nassau LLC
• Rothwell, Figg, Ernst Manbeck, P.C.
• Saul Ewing LLP
• Semmes, Bowen Semmes
• Steven J. Tegrar
• Shuman McCusky Slicer, PLLC
• Sullivan Cromwell LLP
• Timothy Guy Smith, P.C.
• Tuggle Duggins P.A.
• Venable, Baetjer, Howard Civiletti, LLP
• Watt, Tieder, Hoffar Fitzgerald, LLP
• Westerman, Hattori, Daniels Adrian, LLP

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• Forensic Problem-Solving Engineering Firms
• Building Dynamics, LLC
• Building Engineering-Consultants, Inc.
• Building Exterior Solutions, LLC
• Chesapeake Consultant Group
• Criterium-Yingst Engineers, Inc.
• Datanet Engineering
• Delta Engineering Inspection, Inc.
• Engineering and Technical Consultants, Inc.
• Environmental Consultants and Contractors Inc.
• Forensic Analysis Engineering Corp.
• Forensic Analysis Engineering Corp.
• Forensic Engineering Inc.
• Forensic Metallurgy Associates Inc.
• Hoffmann Feige, Inc.
• Kenney Engineering LLC

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• KTA-Tator, Inc.
• McIntyre Associates LLC
• Metal Fatigue Solutions, Inc.
• Rolf Jensen and Associates, Inc.
• Rothfuss Engineering Co.
• S. C. Herman Associates, Inc.
• Sperko Engineering Services, Inc.
• Spears/Votta and Associates, Inc.
• Tadjer-Cohen-Edelson Assoc., Inc.
• Trident Engineering Associates, Inc.
• Whitlock Dalrymple Poston Associates Inc.
• Whitney Bailey Cox Magnani, LLC

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• Insurance Companies
• Broadspire, a Crawford Co.
• Essex Insurance Co. of Markel Corp.
• Erie Insurance Group
• Travelers Indemnity Co.
• Windsor Mount Joy Mutual Insurance Co.
• Contact us  Anderson Materials Evaluation,
  Inc.9051 Red Branch Road, Suite C, Columbia, MD
  21045Ph [phone]Toll Free (866)
  350-8882Fax [phone]Email contactus_at_ande
  rsonmaterials.com