Maritime Expert Witness Services - Services

Fisher Maritime personnel are regularly called upon to analyze the causes of marine casualties and personal injuries, and then act as expert witnesses in litigation throughout the US and Canada. Over the years, Fisher Maritime's personnel have analyzed more than 250 such matters. (This is in addition to our primary mission involving shipbuilding and repair contract development, management, claims and litigation support work.) Click here for more information.

Fisher Maritime routinely deals with questions of the potential of exposure of shipboard and shipyard employees to asbestos. Click here for more information.

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. Click here for more information.

When 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. Click here for more information.

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. Click here for more information.