June
2022
Responsibility and Cleanup Allocation

Langan Helps Clients Navigate CERCLA Claims

When it comes to Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability claims such as insurance cost recovery, firms rely on environmental experts to provide effective environmental liability assessment and technical support. Additionally, support teams often assist with cost recovery efforts, including deterministic and probabilistic cost estimating and cost allocation. These efforts involve preparing site history timelines often reflecting several decades of successive owner and operator contributions to the impacts observed, including emerging contaminants.

By strategizing with legal counsel throughout each case and producing and/or reviewing pertinent documents, Langan’s experts are able to offer mediation support, prepare expert witness reports and trial exhibits, and provide testimony.

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Q&A: Making a Case Through Multiple Lines of Evidence
How are multiple lines of evidence relevant to consulting engineers, scientists, and their clients?
Adam Hackenberg, PG, JD
 
TECH FOCUS: USING ANALYTICAL TOOLS TO EVALUATE RISK

Making informed business decisions on matters involving considerable risk or uncertainty requires a skillful and accurate assessment of those risks and uncertainties. By utilizing powerful analytical tools, such as multi-attribute decision analysis and probabilistic methods, expert firms can assess project risks and uncertainties and provide simple, actionable deliverables for even the most complex projects. Langan possesses the expertise to assist clients – attorneys, public agencies, developers, utilities, landowners, and others – in making these difficult decisions, and has performed these services for projects ranging in value from less than $1 million to more than $1 billion.

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