Flat Fee - Equivocal Death and Injury Causation Analysis & Investigations
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Are you reviewing a personal injury or death case to consider accepting it? Are you working on a defense case and are considering an expert to refute evidence or confirm evidence? Will the answer assist in pursuing a plea or settlement, or go to trial?
There are many questions to consider and we can help answer them through our own subject matter expertise, and that of the experts we associate with directly and through our network of expert associations. We work with incident scenes (motor vehicle, crime scenes, etc.) regularly and as former death investigators were solely responsible for our scene work and evidence detection, collection, handling, and analysis; as well as the review of all records to support the investigation. Dean's extensive training with fingerprints helped confirm the identities of multiple decedent's at the coroner's office (see his peer-reviewed white paper in the Journal for Forensic Identification - Woodchipper Fatality Investigation and Identification). In addition, our experience as a deputy coroners / medicolegal death investigators, and forensic autopsy assistants, gives us a unique perspective and insight into the autopsy protocol and value of the autopsy reports. See Dean's peer-reviewed and award winning Certified Legal Investigator white paper 'Reviewing and Comprehending Autopsy Reports'.
We can look at personal injury causation - are they defense wounds, self-inflicted wounds, is the scene staged or was evidence handled properly? Many questions arise in properly defending your client or in civil litigation and we can help. We can assist with scenes, photography, evidence collection, fingerprints, alternate light sources, death and injuries with causation, law enforcement reports, and medical records reviews; and many other areas of forensics.
Areas of extensive training and experience, and expert referrals:
Are you reviewing a personal injury or death case to consider accepting it? Are you working on a defense case and are considering an expert to refute evidence or confirm evidence? Will the answer assist in pursuing a plea or settlement, or go to trial?
There are many questions to consider and we can help answer them through our own subject matter expertise, and that of the experts we associate with directly and through our network of expert associations. We work with incident scenes (motor vehicle, crime scenes, etc.) regularly and as former death investigators were solely responsible for our scene work and evidence detection, collection, handling, and analysis; as well as the review of all records to support the investigation. Dean's extensive training with fingerprints helped confirm the identities of multiple decedent's at the coroner's office (see his peer-reviewed white paper in the Journal for Forensic Identification - Woodchipper Fatality Investigation and Identification). In addition, our experience as a deputy coroners / medicolegal death investigators, and forensic autopsy assistants, gives us a unique perspective and insight into the autopsy protocol and value of the autopsy reports. See Dean's peer-reviewed and award winning Certified Legal Investigator white paper 'Reviewing and Comprehending Autopsy Reports'.
We can look at personal injury causation - are they defense wounds, self-inflicted wounds, is the scene staged or was evidence handled properly? Many questions arise in properly defending your client or in civil litigation and we can help. We can assist with scenes, photography, evidence collection, fingerprints, alternate light sources, death and injuries with causation, law enforcement reports, and medical records reviews; and many other areas of forensics.
Areas of extensive training and experience, and expert referrals:
- Death Scenes, Decedent Examination, Pattern Injury Analysis
- Motor Vehicle Collision Scenes
- Workplace Scenes
- Causation of wounds, personal injuries and death
- Evidence - including alternate light source, fingerprints and DNA collection
- Medical Records, Law Enforcement Reports and Autopsy Reports
- Bloodstain and Blood spatter
- Fingerprints
- Photography
- Evidence Collection
- Questioned Documents
- Autopsies and Procedures
- Interview and Interrogation Techniques
- Communication with your expert
- Assistance at depositions, hearings and trials
Affiliated Forensic Experts
We believe that medicolegal investigation and consultation is a team effort. Stephen J. Cina, MD, Harold Schueler, PhD are affiliated experts with our agency in their respective fields, offering our clients comprehensive medicolegal services.
Dean began working with Forensic Pathologist Stephen Cina MD, in late 2002 and Karen in late 2004, both as death investigators and forensic autopsy assistants. Dr. Cina is the newly appointed Chief Medical Examiner of a mid-west major metropolitan area.
Dr. Schueler is currently is the Laboratory Director in a private laboratory in California, and has been a Chief Toxicologist for over 22 years at government laboratories in Cincinnati, Ohio and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Through Forensic Toxicology Consulting Services, he provides private consultations nationally.
Medicolegal investigation, including forensic pathology and forensic toxicology are not limited to death investigation, but are applicable to personal injury and injury causation investigations. See 'Deaths and Personal Injuries' tab.
Dean began working with Forensic Pathologist Stephen Cina MD, in late 2002 and Karen in late 2004, both as death investigators and forensic autopsy assistants. Dr. Cina is the newly appointed Chief Medical Examiner of a mid-west major metropolitan area.
Dr. Schueler is currently is the Laboratory Director in a private laboratory in California, and has been a Chief Toxicologist for over 22 years at government laboratories in Cincinnati, Ohio and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Through Forensic Toxicology Consulting Services, he provides private consultations nationally.
Medicolegal investigation, including forensic pathology and forensic toxicology are not limited to death investigation, but are applicable to personal injury and injury causation investigations. See 'Deaths and Personal Injuries' tab.
We work with Stephen J. Cina, MD, a practicing and expert Forensic Pathologist as part of our medicolegal consultations. Forensic Toxicology consultations are also available.
A forensic autopsy is a complex medical procedure conducted to determine the cause and manner of death and identify disease and injury. Although the observations of the forensic pathologist are objective, the interpretation of the autopsy findings is subjective.
Dr. Cina, a Board-certified Anatomic and Forensic Pathologist, has conducted thousands of autopsies and testified to these findings hundreds of times. He has also served as an expert witness in dozens of medicolegal proceedings and has reviewed hundreds of autopsies performed by other pathologists.
Dr. Cina, a Board-certified Anatomic and Forensic Pathologist, has conducted thousands of autopsies and testified to these findings hundreds of times. He has also served as an expert witness in dozens of medicolegal proceedings and has reviewed hundreds of autopsies performed by other pathologists.
Thomas Shamshak, CCDI (Chief, ret) - Police Procedures and Protocols Expert
Mr. Shamshak operates Shamshak Investigative Services from Boston MA and Providence RI (www.ShamshakPI.com) and has been part of the investigative and security fields for thirty four years. He was a law enforcement professional for twenty one years, serving as a Police Chief in two municipal police departments for nine years. Since 1999, he has been operating his own private investigation and security consulting business.
In addition to his private investigation and security business, Mr. Shamshak has established a police consulting practice. As a Police Practices Expert, he has been retained to conduct reviews of police policies and procedures, assist in the hiring of personnel, and investigate allegations of police misconduct. He has reviewed police operational matters related to arrest procedure, handling of prisoners, use of lethal and non-lethal force, and criminal investigative procedure. He has provided investigative and consulting services to law enforcement agencies, municipalities, state criminal justice agencies, insurance companies, attorneys, and private investigators. In addition he has served as both plaintiff's and defendant's expert witness in federal civil litigation.
Mr. Shamshak is affiliated with a number of professional investigator organizations. With Dean, he serves on the National Council of Investigation and Security Services (NCISS) Board of Directors. He is the Secretary and Director of Region 2B (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT).
Mr. Shamshak is affiliated with Boston University. He is the Program Director and Lead Instructor of the BU Certificate in Professional Investigation. (www.bu.edu/professional) Mr. Shamshak teaches PI 101- Foundations of Professional Investigation, and PI 104-Investigative Interviewing.
In addition to his private investigation and security business, Mr. Shamshak has established a police consulting practice. As a Police Practices Expert, he has been retained to conduct reviews of police policies and procedures, assist in the hiring of personnel, and investigate allegations of police misconduct. He has reviewed police operational matters related to arrest procedure, handling of prisoners, use of lethal and non-lethal force, and criminal investigative procedure. He has provided investigative and consulting services to law enforcement agencies, municipalities, state criminal justice agencies, insurance companies, attorneys, and private investigators. In addition he has served as both plaintiff's and defendant's expert witness in federal civil litigation.
Mr. Shamshak is affiliated with a number of professional investigator organizations. With Dean, he serves on the National Council of Investigation and Security Services (NCISS) Board of Directors. He is the Secretary and Director of Region 2B (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT).
Mr. Shamshak is affiliated with Boston University. He is the Program Director and Lead Instructor of the BU Certificate in Professional Investigation. (www.bu.edu/professional) Mr. Shamshak teaches PI 101- Foundations of Professional Investigation, and PI 104-Investigative Interviewing.
Contact our office to consult on medicolegal death or injury causation.
Each of our affiliated experts can be contacted through our office.
Each of our affiliated experts can be contacted through our office.
