Dispute Resolution, Litigation Support, and Expert Witness Testimony

Marsh Advisory provides expert assistance, throughout the dispute resolution process, designed to help you resolve issues in an expeditious and cost-effective manner. Fortune 500, mid-sized companies, and not-for-profit organizations routinely engage us to provide dispute resolution, litigation support, and expert witness testimony services.

Service Highlights

To help maximize our clients’ chances for a speedy recovery and minimize the risk of costly litigation, we provide a wide range of dispute advisory services. Our multi-disciplinary team includes forensic accountants, certified public accountants, forensic engineers, professional engineers, attorneys, construction experts, and certified fraud examiners, who assist clients with document discovery, schedule and cost analysis, claims analysis, computations of damages, the review and analysis of financial information, deposition preparation, reviewing opposing experts’ analyses, rebuttal-related analyses, preserving and recovering evidence, and interviewing employees.

For cases which cannot be settled with alternative dispute resolution, we offer litigation support and expert witness testimony services. We can provide complete litigation management services from recommending counsel, negotiating fees, and overseeing the recovery process in any litigation managed by counsel, through to settlement, trial, or other disposition. Our experts have extensive experience with construction- and insurance-related claims and disputes throughout a variety of industries and dispute resolution forums.

Expert Witness Testimony
Our professionals are very familiar with the litigation process and have experience in preparing expert witness reports, critically reviewing opposing party expert reports, and testifying in federal and state courts as both expert and fact witnesses. Our experts have deep knowledge in areas such as:

• Commercial damages/business disputes
• Business interruption
• Construction disputes
• Purchase price disputes
• Product liability/mass tort
• Employment litigation
• Insurance-related litigation
• Subrogation claims

Litigation Consulting
To assist clients in the litigation process, we provide a full suite of services, including:

• Forensic accounting and the review and analysis of financial, accounting, and other records obtained in discovery.
• Providing assistance to counsel in formulating discovery requests and preparing for depositions,
• Public database research.
• Computations of monetary damages, including best/worst case damage assessments.
  
• Early dispute resolution services, including pre-litigation damage assessments.

Insurance-Related Disputes
We have vast experience in insurance claims and insurance-related disputes and litigation. We are routinely engaged to handle large and complex insurance claims, including many of the largest claims that resulted from major world disaster. By leveraging market knowledge and broker relationships, we help clients develop successful claim strategies to help maximize their insurance recovery. Our extensive experience helps clients recover monies under all types of insurance coverages, including:

• Property, casualty, and liability claims
• Crime policy and fidelity
• Errors and omission
• Directors and officers
• Wrongful death and personal injury
• Surety, builder’s risk, and construction claims

In addition, our uninsured loss recovery experts can provide your risk and legal department with techniques to help identify possible uninsured losses as well as when contractual or legal limitations may arise to bar or reduce recovery.

Construction-Related Disputes
With our specialized knowledge and expertise in construction claims evaluation, preparation, and resolution, we can guide you through the issues most common in construction disputes:

• Completion delays.
• Cost overruns.
• Contract application.
• Workmanship and scope variations.
• Project management performance.

Using a phased investigative process, we can unearth the facts of the dispute, compares performance against contractual obligations and standards of care, and assists in allocating liability among the appropriate parties. This often includes providing a forensic evaluation of entitlement and quantification of project delays, cost overruns, and technical issues. Our independent analysis of documentation and project conditions can serve as the objective evidence review necessary to reconstruct actual performance, assess causation, and evaluate or prepare claims and damages.