Shipping Expert Witnesses

Surprise, Arizona

Products Liability, Transportation - packaging, freight, load securement, pallets, boxes, packaging machines, cargo transportation, industrial injury, industrial safety, packaging design, packaging testing, corrugated, intellectual property, business ethics, shipping, parcel shipments, crating, rail freight, distribution, warehousing

Randy Phares is a retained expert witness in packaging, materials handling, and freight transportation, with more than 30 years of hands-on industry experience. He has been retained in more than 50 cases for both plaintiffs and defendants, has given eight depositions, and has testified twice at trial in state and federal courts; across that record, his qualifications, reports, and testimony have never been excluded or successfully challenged. His forensic casework centers on shipping, loading and unloading, forklift and pallet jack operation, loads falling inside and outside of trucks, handhold and packaging failures, and pallet, crate, and load-securement failures — including catastrophic-injury and fatality matters. He has handled box van, bobtail, and flatbed over-the-road freight as well as rail, and has worked select packaging-related intellectual property and trade-secret matters. Phares has held nearly every role in a packaging operation, from running the corrugated testing ...

California

Products Liability, Transportation - packaging, freight, load securement, pallets, boxes, packaging machines, cargo transportation, industrial injury, industrial safety, packaging design, packaging testing, corrugated, intellectual property, business ethics, shipping, parcel shipments, crating, rail freight, distribution, warehousing

Randy Phares is a retained expert witness in packaging, materials handling, and freight transportation, with more than 30 years of hands-on industry experience. He has been retained in more than 50 cases for both plaintiffs and defendants, has given eight depositions, and has testified twice at trial in state and federal courts; across that record, his qualifications, reports, and testimony have never been excluded or successfully challenged. His forensic casework centers on shipping, loading and unloading, forklift and pallet jack operation, loads falling inside and outside of trucks, handhold and packaging failures, and pallet, crate, and load-securement failures — including catastrophic-injury and fatality matters. He has handled box van, bobtail, and flatbed over-the-road freight as well as rail, and has worked select packaging-related intellectual property and trade-secret matters. Phares has held nearly every role in a packaging operation, from running the corrugated testing ...

Lafayette, Louisiana

Maritime, Safety - boat, ship, personnel basket, collision, dredging, personal injury, crewboat, offshore supply vessel, Platform supply vessel, crew management, navigation, Navigation Rules, CFR's, fishing boats, recreational boats, hurricane, ports, shipping, dynamic positioning, swing rope

Assisted both plaintiff and defense attorneys in understanding the industry standards and regulations of maritime operations, maritime safety, and maritime navigation. My export reports combine my years of hands-on captain experience with my MIT education producing meaningful reports that have expedited settlements. My trial testimony focusses on instructing judge and jury on the nature of the sea and how the involved parties were affected by it. My testimony has included demonstratives of my drone photography of the accident site and accident recreation. Additionally, qualified to opine on maritime forecasts and observations regarding significant wave height, maximum wave and rogue waves. Axcess to archived maritime forecasts and archived wind/wave analyses by the National Weather Service. - USCG Master Unlimited, Oceans - AFNI, Associate Fellow of Nautical Institute, U.K. - Dynamic Position Operator - Member, U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary - Certified Safety Professional with AS...

Texas

Products Liability, Transportation - packaging, freight, load securement, pallets, boxes, packaging machines, cargo transportation, industrial injury, industrial safety, packaging design, packaging testing, corrugated, intellectual property, business ethics, shipping, parcel shipments, crating, rail freight, distribution, warehousing

Randy Phares is a retained expert witness in packaging, materials handling, and freight transportation, with more than 30 years of hands-on industry experience. He has been retained in more than 50 cases for both plaintiffs and defendants, has given eight depositions, and has testified twice at trial in state and federal courts; across that record, his qualifications, reports, and testimony have never been excluded or successfully challenged. His forensic casework centers on shipping, loading and unloading, forklift and pallet jack operation, loads falling inside and outside of trucks, handhold and packaging failures, and pallet, crate, and load-securement failures — including catastrophic-injury and fatality matters. He has handled box van, bobtail, and flatbed over-the-road freight as well as rail, and has worked select packaging-related intellectual property and trade-secret matters. Phares has held nearly every role in a packaging operation, from running the corrugated testing ...