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HSSK professionals have given expert witness testimony in many engagements. Below is a list of a few testifying case samples.

Determined lost profits as a result of interference with customer relationships
Determined actual and future damages as a result of manufacturing defects in a refined products pipeline causing long seam weld failure
Calculated damages incurred as a result of a breach of a contract to purchase large quantity of a soil stabilizer
Vouched insurance and Medicare reimbursement records for a group of dialysis centers to determine if defendant had remitted all amounts due the seller of the clinics
Determined the value of a luxury chocolate retail business which was unable to open due to breach of a lease agreement with the defendant
Value a minority interest in three restaurants which plaintiff alleged was illegally taken from him
Determined damages incurred by plaintiff as a result of alleged breach of contract and fraudulent inducement related to an offshore energy service company
Determined the value of a website and related contract with one of the defendants
Provided expert testimony as to the decline in the value of the plaintiff as a result of fraudulent inducement to outsource key business functions
Engaged to determine losses by a bagel franchisee in a franchising dispute

Evaluated Fortune 500 company’s reporting of impaired assets, debt/equity characterization and the form of opinion issued by its independent auditors at various points in time
Determined the solvency of a private equity fund in connection with preference and fraudulent transfer actions brought by the Trustee
Determined the solvency of a private equity fund in connection with a fraudulent transfer action brought by the Trustee
Evaluated the ability of a debtor to pay its debts as the came due
Engaged to determine the solvency of a debtor and to identify fraudulent transfers entered into by the debtor

Determined losses incurred by six insurance companies through a $211 million fraud scheme
Researched the commingling of personal and business assets and expenses by the defendants
Determined damages incurred in a pyramid scheme
Investigated the administrator/executor of an estate and two trusts and determined the related damages to the estate and trusts
Investigated a $140 million mortgage fraud

Reviewed the bookkeeping and financial operations of the general partner of a series of gas gathering system partnerships
Developed an analysis of damages incurred by foreign investors in a series of drilling programs
Determined damages in connection with the breach of a refinery feedstock supply agreement
Calculated damages in connection with the breach of a gas purchase contract
Interpreted accounting provisions of a “market out” clause in a gas purchase contract
Calculated damages incurred by a drilling mud contractor in connection with the breach of an acquisition agreement
Determined the value of a minority interest in a drilling company
Calculated damages incurred in connection with breach of a settlement agreement and damage inflicted on a gas liquids separation plant
Determined the cost and marketability of natural gas produced in a claim against a gathering system for wrongfully terminating a gathering contract pursuant to a “market out” clause

Calculated damages as a result of landlord’s failure to repair structural damage to a parking garage operated by plaintiff
Calculated damages as a result of delays and “additional costs” incurred in the remodeling of a building
Determined damages as a result of alleged mismanagement, contractor caused delays and construction defects in the construction of a $60 million hotel

Determined the damages relating to the theft and use of confidential corporate documents by former executives of the plaintiff
Evaluated damages by the plaintiff’s damage expert relating to the loss of an international patent on a downhole packer
Determined damages attributable to infringement of a U.S. patent

Evaluated the internal bookkeeping procedures of the United States Geological Survey and the United States Minerals Management Service to determine royalties from the production of oil and gas on Indian lands
Investigated the operations of an independent oil company and other entities, and provided testimony in connection with plaintiffs' claims that the estates’ executrixes’ had inappropriately withheld assets from certain beneficiaries
Investigated the administration of a series of trusts established for the benefit of family members and two estates, including preparing financials from 1957 forward
Analyzed the financial records of an estate and two trusts and calculated damages in connection with an action against the executor and trustee

Determined the amount of plaintiff’s lost wage income related to an auto accident
Determined the lost future wage income of a teenager related to an auto accident
Evaluated the performance of audits and the discovery of material audit adjustments related to a senior executive’s termination bonus
Determined the lost earnings of a decedent in an action brought against a hospital and an attending physician

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