Litigation Webinar: The Role of Failure Analysis in the Insurance Industry

In the complex world of modern litigation, determining the true cause of equipment or structural failure is crucial to a case. In these cases, the difference between a sound engineering opinion and a flawed one often determines whether liability is established, denied, or successfully contested.

Please join us for this insightful and practical webinar, “The Role of Failure Analysis in the Insurance and Legal Industry,” where our leading experts will explore how engineering assessments and investigative techniques directly impact legal outcomes, claims valuations, coverage disputes, and subrogation strategy.

This webinar will explore numerous relevant topics in litigation including:

• Failure Analysis Techniques and Objectives: Understand the methods used by engineers and investigators including visual examination, metallurgical analysis, fractography, non-destructive testing, and materials characterization to determine how and why failures occur, and how these methodologies hold up under cross-examination.
• Normal vs. Abnormal Wear and Tear: Learn to distinguish between expected degradation and evidence of negligence or a design, manufacturing or installation-related defect.
• Causation vs. Contribution: Understand the true distinctions between a factor that caused a failure and one that contributed to it, a difference with significant litigation-related implications.
• Standards, Codes, and the Duty of Care: Understand how standards and codes (ASTM, ASME, AWS, API, NFPA, and others) establish benchmarks for acceptable design, maintenance, and operation, and how these standards are used in failure analysis relating to litigation.
• Why Experts Disagree and How to Tell Who is Right: Explore the reasons behind conflicting expert testimonies and how to critically assess them, and what differentiates a defensible expert opinion from one vulnerable to challenge
• Spoliation and Evidence Preservation: Learn what evidence should be preserved following a failure event, the consequences of spoliation, and best practices for evidence preservation for the integrity of investigations and legal cases
• Subrogation Opportunities in Equipment and Structural Failures: Recognize the failure patterns and circumstances most likely to support viable subrogation and understand how early involvement of an expert failure analyst strengthens legal prospects.

Whether you are a claims professional evaluating complex losses, an attorney building or defending a liability case, or a risk manager seeking to understand the technical dimensions of equipment and structural failures, this webinar provides the practical knowledge needed to work more effectively with experts, evaluate reports critically, and make better-informed decisions.

Register today to secure your spot and gain a deeper understanding of the science behind the scenes of litigation.