Environmental Forensics and Litigation Support

Featured Services & Subject Expertise

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  Forensics

  VHB has the technical skills and practical environmental experience to uncover the critical facts to resolve environmental disputes, including chemical fingerprinting, sediment age dating, chemical fate and transport modeling techniques, complex geospatial analysis, and three-dimensional subsurface visualizations.
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  Liability, Damages, and Allocation Assessments

  VHB performs assessments for business risk management, insurance recovery, cost allocation, natural resource damages, and mass and toxic tort. We prepare position papers and presentations for clients and can serve as allocators for multi-party sites. VHB draws upon our environmental experience to produce credible estimates to help effectively manage risk.
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  Environmental Insurance Matters

  For over two decades, VHB has supported both insurance companies and private clients in insurance-related liability, cost-recovery, and damages assessments. VHB’s staff is knowledgeable and practiced in environmental insurance principles, including expected and intended, owned property, policy years, pollution exclusion, and sudden and accidental.
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  Contaminated Sediments

  For more than 35 years, VHB’s environmental specialists have been at the forefront of complex contaminated sediment evaluations in lake, river, and tidal systems, including analyses for persistent contaminants such as PCBs, mercury, coal tar constituents, and dioxins.
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  Contaminated Groundwater

  VHB has extensive experience investigating, evaluating, and remediating contaminated groundwater. Our knowledge of light nonaqueous phase liquids (LNAPLs), dense nonaqueous phase liquids (DNAPLs), and emerging contaminants such as PFAS and 1,4-dioxane, has allowed us to testify and support litigation at numerous high-profile contaminated groundwater sites.