SUMMARY OF CAPABILITIES

Belba & Associates is available in selected cases to provide expert testimony and to assist in litigation strategy development. Our experience with expert testimony includes:

  • Testimony for an independent power producer at an administrative hearing by a State Department of Environmental Management regarding siting of a coal-fired cogeneration facility and its impact on air toxics and particulate emissions.
  • Expert testimony via deposition for an electrostatic precipitator (ESP) original equipment manufacturer regarding a personal injury during a precipitator rebuild.
  • Consultation, litigation strategy development and future expert testimony in South Africa for a supplier and architect/engineer of an ESP on a biomass-fired boiler.
  • Litigation strategy support in a wrongful death case involving a worker’s death in a baghouse.
  • Support in litigation strategy development and in negotiating a settlement regarding a potential case involving complaints of noncompliance with baghouse performance guarantees.
  • In several cases, assisted attorneys for electric utilities in litigation strategy development by providing technical advice and economic analyses regarding air pollution system performance and options.