ToxStrategies and EpidStrategies scientists have decades of consulting and research experience in evaluating the causal relationships between disease occurrence and exposure to chemicals in consumer products, the workplace, and the environment. We apply this scientific expertise directly to litigation support, offering services including general and specific causation analysis, analyzing toxicological and epidemiological data, exposure reconstruction, and state-of-the-art analysis. Our team of experts has provided testimony in US state and federal court, mediation, and international arbitration, and has experience addressing high profile matters involving personal injury, toxic tort, class certification, natural resource defense (NRD) claims, Proposition 65 Claims, and product liability. Our staff has decades of experience supporting litigation through every phase, including case strategy and research, expert report preparation, expert witness testimony, deposition and trial support, and Daubert motions. Our experts have testified in over 500 depositions and nearly 50 trials.
Services
- Litigation support and expert witness services
- Evidence-based toxicology
- Design and conduct of exposure simulation studies
- Exposure reconstruction from measured or modeled data
- Derivation of health-based chemical exposure thresholds
- Benchmarking reconstructed exposures vs exposure thresholds
- Epidemiologic study design, implementation, and interpretation
- Meta analyses of epidemiologic studies
- Assessment of epidemiologic studies using accepted criteria (e.g., Bradford-Hill)
Example Areas of Expertise
- Talcum powder exposure
- Asbestos exposure
- PFAS exposure via tap water consumption
- Medical devices and pharmaceuticals
- Childhood lead (Pb) exposures via tap water, soil, dust, and dietary consumption
- Occupational exposure to flavoring compounds (e.g., diacetyl, 2,3-pentanedione)
- Solvent exposures (e.g., TCE, PCE, 1,4-dioxane, benzene)
- Community PCB exposures
- Endocrine disrupting chemical exposure via personal care product
Landmark Cases
- East Palestine train derailment
- Lead in drinking water in Flint, Michigan
- Bronchiolitis obliterans (popcorn lung) litigation
- PFAS (e.g., Carey et al., NRD litigation)
- Erin Brockovich litigation