Due to extensive experience and expertise, ZMassociates senior consultants has been requested in numerous toxic tort lawsuits, insurance settlement cases, and lawsuits involving high risks of human hazard and other confidential issues.
Mergers and Acquisitions
ZMassociates has also provided technical and regulatory support to companies involved in major mergers and acquisitions in the United States and internationally. Our team has numerous years experience with the management of the purchase or merger process. We perform environmental background and historical research of sites, data analysis, environmental and legal risk analysis and strategy support during negotiations and the due-diligence phase. Our large corporate clients include Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems.
In a highly controversial and confidential wrongful death claim,
ZMassociates provided in-depth research on plaintiff claims, potential chemical exposures, routes of exposure, risk analysis, modeling, and a summary expert opinion report. Due to the extensive work by ZMassociates in concert with great legal representation, the case was settled before going to trial.
In the Dalles Cherry Growers v. Martin Marietta Aluminum,
ZMassociates principals provided background research and technical data for legal arguments during the lengthy jury trial. This work included compilation of several years of complex ambient air monitoring data, plant air discharge data, and meteorological data, and literature search, statistical analysis, modeling support, and strategy and opinion papers.
For Superfund sites and projects, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Oregon Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Justice,
senior ZMassociates consultants performed Potentially Responsible Party background analysis, PRP negotiations, and regulatory research throughout the United States.
In Martin Marietta v. Insurance Carriers,
Our consultants provided expert environmental support during pre-trial discovery phase for this complex case as well as chemical, regulatory, past practices research and support. ZMassociates principals acted as expert witnesses.
In a case involving a creosote wood treatment facility,
key ZMassociates experts provided regulatory, agency policy interpretation, responsible party support and performed historical research on past owners and operators of property and facilities. Also provided expert witness support.
Other cases for which we provided expert consultation and testimony include:
City of Portland v. Cascade/Boeing of Portland
Cascade v. Insurance Carriers
ICN v. Insurance Carriers
Asbestos Cases and Occupational Exposure Claims
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