Expert Witness Marine

Mr. W.P. (Bil) Stewart, P.E., President of Stewart Technology Associates (STA) has provided expert testimony in many marine and offshore litigation cases. These cases have involved vessel collisions, vessel sinkings and groundings, vessel capsizes, production platform toppling, barge buckling, major structural damage to jack-ups under tow, jack-up elevated failures, anchor failures, and mooring system failures. Mr. Stewart has provided expert opinions for cases in the United States, in the United Kingdom, and in South Africa. He is a registered Professional Engineer (Texas) and a Chartered Engineer in Europe.

Numerous technical papers and articles have been written by Mr. Stewart, who is also closely associated with the activities and research undertaken by several learned societies, particularly the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. A broad background in Civil Engineering, Soil Mechanics, Hydrodynamics, Offshore Structures and Structural Dynamics, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, enables STA to provide a wide and well balanced service to lawyers. Many legal cases, especially those involving forensic examination of accidents, require knowledge and experience spanning several of the above technical disciplines.

STA produces high quality technical reports including clear diagrams which enable the technical analyses to be easily understood. Extensive use is made of computer software and state-of-the-art analytical and simulation techniques. Almost invariably a color “notebook” computer and printer accompany Mr. Stewart when he attends (or provides) depositions, visits clients’ offices, or simply travels out of town. With this computer, reports can be immediately modified, new analyses performed, existing analyses revised, and hard copy provided anywhere in the world, offshore and onshore.  Technical reports produced by STA have won clients millions of dollars over the last fifteen years.

In addition to a wide range of technical analysis software, STA maintains computer databases of offshore and marine accidents, tanker oil spills, plus databases of construction and other offshore costs. These, and other databases, can be most useful in maritime litigation. STA also produces graphic visual aids and physical models for use at trial.

Expert testimony work is a small but important part of the normal STA workload.

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Expert Witness Marine Services Provided By STA Offer Clients Protection During Legal Proceedings

[Posted on Nov 28]

Stewart Technology Associates is a well-respected design, engineering and consultancy firm that have provided services to a number of organizations in the offshore and marine drilling industry. Those organizations know they can trust the insight and analysis STA delivers because they’ve experienced the benefits of those services time and time again. The clients of STA see marked improvements in the productivity of their operations in the short term as well as the long term. The Stewart Technology Associates team, led by CEO and founder Bil Stewart, have been working in the field for decades and bring a tremendous amount of experience to the table.

This extensive background has resulted in a level of credibility that few in the industry are able to equal. It’s important to have that kind of credibility in situations when STA’s clients are facing legal issues and they need expert witness marine services that will hold up in court. Bil Stewart has personally delivered expert testimony on the behalf of and in support of clients. The respect he garners throughout the industry provides weight to those expert witness marine services and that has proven to be extremely valuable to clients on a number of occasions.

The offshore drilling industry is one that is not immune to accidents and the cause of those accidents can lead to accusations of fault on a particular individual. Stewart Technology Associates can perform a marine accident investigation but the results may be called into question by those who have been implicated. With a less reputable firm carrying out the investigation, those results may not hold up to scrutiny and that can be extremely costly to the drilling operation. Those who don’t want to take that risk reach out to STA. In doing so, they can count on the accuracy of the findings of a marine accident investigation and be confident that if those findings are questioned, STA will provide expert witness marine services that will support them.

The services offered by Stewart Technology Associates cover multiple aspects of the marine drilling field and it’s that diverse background that has led to such a strong reputation since being founded in 1986. Those services include everything from the analysis of offshore structures like steel catenary risers and wave power systems to spill containment and oil spill cleanup plans that will minimize the damage caused in these potentially catastrophic situations when they occur.

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