Liability & Claims


A Forensic View

When accidents occur, Fleisher Forensics’ experts can help you determine who is responsible by providing a detailed and thorough forensic investigation, evaluation and report when requested. We have a team of veteran analysts that can help you decide the right course of action for liabilities & claims whatever your situation.


Residential, Commercial, Industrial and Municipal Properties

Our Premises Liability experts have hands-on experience in design, construction, inspection and maintenance of facilities, and serve on national committees in standards development. Our experts assess matters for plaintiff and defense attorneys, insurance companies, sports teams, utility companies, industry and government entities including the areas listed below.

  • ADA
  • Balconies
  • Bars
  • Bathroom Safety
  • Bathtub slip resistance ranking
  • Building Failures and Distress
  • Casinos
  • Code Enforcement
  • Codes, Standards and Regulations
  • Commercial
  • Doors
  • Flooring Claims and Analysis
  • Garage Doors
  • Guardrails
  • Handrails
  • Highways and Streets
  • Hospitals
  • Industrial
  • Municipal Facilities
  • Nursing Homes
  • Overhead Doors
  • Parking Lots and Garages
  • Platforms
  • Porches
  • Ramps
  • Residential
  • Restaurants
  • Retail
  • Schools
  • Sharp Edges
  • Sidewalks
  • Slip Resistance
  • Slip-Trip-Fall Evaluations
  • Sports Venues
  • Stairs
  • Storm Drainage, Flooding and Ice
  • Structural Failures
  • Supermarkets
  • Transportation
  • Universities
  • Walkway Surfaces
  • Walkways
  • Work Zones

Product Liability

Fleisher Forensics evaluates product liability matters for plaintiffs, designers, manufacturers, distributors and retailers of products. Our expertise spans from basic to complex liability evaluations including the areas listed below.

  • Aircraft Components
  • Automotive Systems
  • Building Failures and Distress
  • Building Products and Systems
  • Cars
  • Chairs
  • Codes, Standards, Practices and Regulations
  • Construction Equipment
  • Consumer Goods and Appliances
  • Doors
  • Failure Analysis
  • Flooring Claims
  • Food Processing Equipment
  • Garage Doors
  • Heavy and Industrial Equipment
  • Machine Guarding
  • Machinery
  • Materials
  • Medical Equipment and Devices
  • Metals, Plastics and Materials
  • Overhead Doors
  • Printing Presses
  • Prosthesis
  • Recreational Products
  • Scaffolds
  • Structural Failures
  • Traffic Control Devices
  • Trucks
  • Walkway Surfaces 

Architects, Engineers & Veterinary

Our professional engineers and registered architects understand and value a thorough analysis for professional liability matters. We consider relevant and reasonable practices and standards. Fleisher Forensics approaches these as well as other matters with a peer review approach including the areas of expertise listed below:

  • ADA
  • Agreements
  • Architectural Claims
  • Building Failures & Distress
  • Building products & systems
  • Change order claims
  • Civil Engineering
  • Code Enforcement
  • Codes, Standards and Regulations
  • Construction Claims
  • Construction Management and Administration
  • Construction Safety and Accidents
  • Contract Disputes
  • Defective Work Claims
  • Delay Claims
  • Design Claims
  • Engineering Claims
  • Errors or Omissions Claims
  • Flooring Claims & Analysis
  • Highways, Streets and Parking Lots
  • Machine Guarding
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Premises Liability
  • Product Liability
  • Scope of Work
  • Structural Engineering
  • Structural Failures
  • Termination Claims
  • Traffic Controls and Devices
  • Walkway Surfaces

Construction & Claims

Highways require regular maintenance and periodic reconstruction. This work must be done efficiently, safely and while accommodating the needs of the road users and providing for the safety of the construction personnel.

  • Construction Claims and Safety
  • Department of Transportation standards and requirements
  • OSHA regulations
  • Work Zone Traffic Control
  • Commercial Vehicle and heavy equipment operations
  • Construction means and methods
  • Construction task sequencing
  • Supplements and change orders
  • Bidding documents, plans and specifications
  • Utility accommodation and control
  • Vehicle, pedestrian and construction personnel accidents
  • Construction vehicle access
  • Driveways and haul roads
  • Intersections
  • Signage, Traffic Controls and Markings
  • Lighting
  • Work hours
  • Construction Management and Inspection
  • Professional Liability

Safety & Work Zone

Highways require proper design and guidance for both motorist and pedestrians. Highway users have an expectation that the facilities are properly designed and demarcated to provide safe and efficient passage. An important part of the design and guidance is attention to the entire highway corridor, including those areas outside the edge of the paved surface.

  • Highway Clear Zones
  • Sight Distances
  • Traffic Control, Signs, Markings and Signals
  • Construction Claims and Safety
  • Accidents (Vehicle, Pedestrian and Construction)
  • Roadway Geometry
  • Horizontal and Vertical Curvature
  • Highway Profile, Grades and Cross Section
  • Guiderails, Guardrails and Barriers
  • Intersections and Driveways
  • Trails
  • Interstate Highways and Interchanges
  • Crosswalks and other Pavement Markings
  • Utility Poles and Traffic Signals
  • Highway Lighting
  • Work Zone Traffic Control 

Traffic Controls & Safety

The consistent application of uniform traffic control devices is one of the fundamental foundations of safety on our streets and highways. National and local standards guide the design, application and installation of out traffic control devices.

  • Traffic Signs
    – Regulatory Signs
    – Warning Signs
    – Guide Signs
  • Pavement Markings
  • Traffic Signals
  • Work Zone Traffic Control
  • School Zone Traffic Control
  • Railroad Crossing Traffic Control
  • Traffic Control Device responsibility
  • Traffic Control Device installation and maintenance
  • Traffic Control Device regulation 

Accident Reconstruction

The dynamics of a vehicle accident involve a number of factors including driver action/inaction, the tire-pavement interaction, vehicle systems operations, roadway geometry and the roadside border area among other factors. Drivers are sometimes compromised as a result of the accident. The ability to understand the interrelationship between all the factors and properly interpret the physical evidence is critical to a successful reconstruction.

  • Perception-Reaction Time
  • The Driving Task
  • Sight Distance
  • Weather
  • Road Surface and Conditions
  • Lighting and Illumination
  • Brake Performance
  • Vehicle Systems
  • Crush Damage
  • Skid Marks, Gouges and Yaw Marks
  • Pavement-Tire Interactions
  • Commercial Vehicle Operations
  • Hours of Service Law
  • Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations
  • Statutory Vehicle Laws
  • Speed, Time and Distance
  • Vehicle Inspection 

Liability & Claims
Safety & Accidents

Our experts regularly evaluate accidents involving falls through floor and roof openings, along floor and platform edges, from scaffolding and construction equipment, from electrocutions and from ladders. Other evaluations include workers hit by falling objects and materials during demolition, construction and completed stages. Examples of construction liability and claim evaluations include:

  • Barricades
  • Building Failures and Distress
  • Cave-ins
  • Code Enforcement
  • Codes, Standards and Regulations
  • Commercial Facilities
  • Construction Safety and Accidents
  • Demolition
  • Retention/Demolition Basins
  • Edges of Floors and Roofs
  • EIFS (Exterior Insulated Finish System)
  • Equipment Failures
  • Failure Analysis
  • Fences
  • Fitness Facilities
  • Floor Failures
  • Floors
  • Footings and Foundations
  • Framing
  • Garages
  • Guarding
  • Guiderails
  • Handrails
  • Healthcare Facilities
  • Highways and Streets
  • Holes
  • Industrial Plants
  • Insulation
  • Ladders
  • Leakage
  • Lift Equipment Overturning
  • Loading and Unloading of Materials
  • Manufacturing Plants
  • Mechanical Systems
  • Metals, Plastics and Materials
  • Municipal Facilities
  • Office Buildings
  • Openings in Floors and Roofs
  • Parking Lots
  • Pedestrian Incidents
  • Power Plants
  • Rain
  • Residential Facilities
  • Roofing
  • Roofs
  • Scaffolds
  • Schools and Universities
  • Shopping Centers
  • Slip-Trip-Fall Evaluations
  • Sports Flooring
  • Stairways
  • Storm Drainage, Flooding and Ice
  • Structural Failures
  • Stucco
  • Traffic Controls and Safety
  • Trenches
  • Utility Construction
  • Walkway Surfaces
  • Water Damage
  • Water Filtration
  • Wind
  • Work Zones 

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