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Insurance adjusters expert witnesses may may advise on issues involving insurance claims, , insurance agencies, and associated topics. In Adjusters’ Pet Peeves, Charles Hunter Mcree, claims expert and risk management executive, writes: Knowing adjuster pet peeves and their hot buttons can help those who work with adjusters to foster better relationships. This includes the gamut of vendors and business partners such as defense lawyers, rehab specialists, surveillance firms, and expert witnesses…. So what sets an adjuster’s teeth on edge? Let’s explore an informal and highly subjective list I have composed:

1. Cheapskate insurance buyers. Some policyholders make insurance-buying decisions based on “the cheapest quote,” and then feign surprise when they don’t get platinum claim service. Usually things are cheaper for a reason. If you check into a Motel 6 and pay a bargain basement price, then please do not whine because the hotel lacks concierge service and a mint on the pillow. When shopping for insurance, many accounts are “all about price.” When they have a claim, it is all about service. Sorry, but those two usually go hand-in-hand – in both claims adjusting and in other realms.

Read more: propertycasualty360.com.

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In Before the 2008 Financial Crisis, a Real Real Estate Market Did Not Exist, finance expert witness Chris McConnell, AIFA, writes:
Chris McConnell AIFA®, FiduciaryFORENSICS® expert based in Los Angeles, has released his FiduciaryALERT™ for 2011. According to McConnell, after every mortgage borrower signed their name they thought they were just getting a mortgage. In addition to lending the money, certain banks “converted” those mortgages into residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS)and held them as investments, for their own profits. The so-called “value” of these mortgages, was leveraged quite literally for pennies on the dollar. Paper profits mushroomed allowing banks to hand out massive bonuses to their own proprietary traders. It was all done according to certain banks’ and often the very same traders’ internal proprietary computer models.

Read more: prweb.com.

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In Fatal Asthma, pulmonary medicine expert witness Dr. James F. Lineback, Newport Longevity Medical Group, writes:

Asthma is a very common pulmonary problem affecting between three and five percent of the population. Fortunately, fatal asthma is a rare complication, though it often involves young people in the prime of their lives. The definition of asthma is reversible airway obstruction and involves inflammation and narrowing of the airways. Patients experience shortness of breath and feel as if they are breathing through a straw. Allergies, exercise, infections, and stress may cause an acute worsening of their condition.

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Hometown Bank notified the Galveston County 10th District Court on July 1 that it has selected Michael L. Wilson to testify as an expert witness on legal fees during litigation arising from Pasadena resident Manzoor A. Memon’s case. Memon is suing Syed Rashid Bukhari for assaulting him in the bank’s League City parking lot after a chance encounter last March.

Wilson will testify “on the subject of reasonable and necessary attorney’s fees, including but not limited to the attorney’s fees for the defendant in this lawsuit, as well as any issue raised by any other expert witness.”

Read more: setexasrecord.com.

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Marketing expert witnesses may opine on marketing effectiveness, marketing research, marketing strategy, and more. At Expert Communications.com, Rosalie Hamilton provides methods for experts to find prospect attorneys, companies and insurers that need their expert consultant services. Here, an expert witness contributes to ExpertCommunications.blogspot.com:

I never, never offer an opinion of a case based on information given to me by the attorney. On the initial call, when asked my charges, and if I think I can help them, I simply reply that I cannot determine the cost until I have seen the documentation, and that I do not know what my final opinion will be until I have reviewed all documents and have performed my analysis. I do tell them I’ve done this for many years and I work quickly. By seeing my Rule 26, they can view the types of cases I have testified, and who the hiring attorney was. That lends to credibility.

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Insurance adjusters expert witnesses may testify on insurance claims, insurance agencies, insurance fraud, and associated topics. In Adjusters’ Pet Peeves, Charles Hunter Mcree writes:

1. Cheapskate insurance buyers. Some policyholders make insurance-buying decisions based on “the cheapest quote,” and then feign surprise when they don’t get platinum claim service. Usually things are cheaper for a reason. If you check into a Motel 6 and pay a bargain basement price, then please do not whine because the hotel lacks concierge service and a mint on the pillow. When shopping for insurance, many accounts are “all about price.” When they have a claim, it is all about service. Sorry, but those two usually go hand-in-hand-in both claims adjusting and in other realms.

Read more: propertycasualty360.com.

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In Study sheds light on EU outbreak’s E coli family tree, Lisa Schnirring, Center for Infectious Disease Research & Policy writes:

German researchers who were the first to release the initial genome sequence of the Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak strain published their in-depth findings yesterday, which found that it differed from a 2001 strain found in Germany, but that both could have evolved from a common progenitor. Infectious disease expert Dr Dag Harmsen, that the group’s work represents the first use of a next-generation sequencing platform.

Read more: www.cidrap.umn.edu.

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Insect pathology expert witnesses may write reports and provide testimony on pest control standard of care, insect pathology, pest control, and related topics. The National Resources Institute explains that insect pathology is the study of disease in insects.

The rationale behind the investigation of diseases that attack insect pests is that the causative organisms can be used as “natural insecticides” for controlling these pests without resorting to the use of toxic chemical insecticides. They are natural, specific and completely safe to man, domestic animals and crops. They are also harmless to other non-target insects such as bees, predators, parasitoids and other beneficial species. These pathogens can be mass produced using simple techniques that are appropriate for developing countries, thus enabling these countries to develop their own low-cost alternatives to expensive, imported and often environmentally-damaging chemical pesticides.

Read more: nri.org.

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Marketing expert witnesses may opine on marketing effectiveness, marketing research, marketing strategy, and more. At Expert Communications.com, Rosalie Hamilton provides methods for experts to find prospect attorneys, companies and insurers that need their expert consultant services. Here, an expert witness contributes to ExpertCommunications.blogspot.com:

My retainer agreement not only lists the fees and scope of my work, but I also have a clause (in bold) that expressly forbids the attorney from disclosing me as an expert witness if the attorney has not retained me. This happened many times in my early career, and that is why I put it into my retainer agreement. The clause also states I will take action against the attorney if I am listed without being retained. This clause has stopped attorneys from listing me as expert without retaining me. In addition, I have proof that I sent them the retainer agreement, thus I know my clause has been read. [editor’s note: see other experts’ experiences on being designated without permission in this past discussion.]

Read more: http://expertcommunications.blogspot.com/.