Meteorological Litigation Support Services

Air Quality and Meteorological Related Expert Testimony

Sullivan Environmental has well-recognized expertise in providing expert testimony for litigation involving air quality and meteorological issues. With two Certified Consulting Meteorologists that have over 25 years of professional experience each, high quality expert analysis and testimony is provided on a cost-effective basis. David Sullivan has been deposed and testified on numerous air quality related cases as well as injury and death cases associated with weather-related events.

Examples of Air Quality Legal Cases

• Rocky Mountain Arsenal Federal case (Basin F, Remediation Air Quality Impacts). Mr. Sullivan was the air quality expert selected by the Colorado Attorney General’s office in a case involving the state of California and the U.S. Department of Justice.


• Class action lawsuit involving lead smelting. David Sullivan served as the air quality expert for the plaintiffs in the class certification hearing, including providing testimony at a deposition and court testimony.


• Chlorine release at industrial facility in the southeast. David Sullivan testified in court regarding expected exposures associated with an accidental release at a chemical facility.


• Air quality incident at a major metropolitan area in Louisiana. Mr. Sullivan conducted an air quality analysis of airborne exposures on a metropolitan scale associated with a chemical release resulting from a barge accident.

Examples of Meteorological Legal Cases

• Two cases involving tornadoes allegedly causing personal injury. The staff of Sullivan Environmental provided a deposition and court testimony.


• Three cases involving wind damage that allegedly caused personal injury. Two of these cases involved depositions.


• Three cases allegedly involving visibility-related issues associated with a traffic accident. One case was criminal and two were civil.


• Three slip-fall cases where Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Hlinka provided expert review.


• Reconstruction of neighborhood scale exposures to beryllium from a World War II vintage manufacturing facility.


• Reconstructing exposures from a major accidental chemical spill into a waterway in the southern U.S.


• Analysis of the distribution of odors in the vicinity of a manufacturing facility.

 

Contact David Sullivan for more information regarding air quality and meteorological related expert testimony services: (703) 780-4580