Title Insurance Expert Witnesses

This expert has over 30 years of experience in residential property management with a portfolio including multi-family apartments, condominium units, and single-family homes. After receiving his BA in business administration from National University this expert went on to become a certified property manager and certified community association manager. He is also a licensed real estate broker in California and Illinois. He previously worked as the co-owner and president of Coastside Property Management, Inc. He has been an active participant at the local and national level in the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) where he previously served as the San Diego chapter president. He regularly instructs several national courses and seminars for the IREM, including courses specializing in successful site management, real estate management ethics and introductions to managing residential properties and community associations. Throughout his career, this expert has provided training in property management to over 500 residential managers. He is currently the senior vice president of property and asset management for a multi-state, full-service property management company.

This title insurance expert spent nearly a decade as a title searcher, title examiner, and title officer before pursuing a 20 year career as an underwriting counsel. He has a keen understanding of how title insurers evaluate risk and interpret their policies. He has represented numerous clients in title insurance claims. A former vice chair of the Title Insurance and Surveys Committee of the American Bar Association, he earned his JD at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law and maintains a consulting practice focused on title insurance and real estate.

This expert is a highly qualified and multi-faceted business professional and educated. He is a top-ranked, tenured professor at one of the nation's top universities, and a successful real estate developer/investor. Widely quoted, he has appeared on BBC World News, Bloomberg, CNN, FOX News, NBC's The Today Show, NPR, and all major dailies including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Financial Times. A highly sought-after speaker, he regularly presents to leading business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Currently, this expert is the principal of a real estate investment firm, principal of a litigation support/expert testimony firm, and a lecturer in real estate, finance and law at a top university business/law school.

This expert has several years of property management experience, which includes 4 years of apartment management. For over 11 years he has also performed property safety inspections for major insurance companies. As a professional property manager, he holds the Master Property Manager designation from the National Association of Residential Property Managers. He conducted workshops for their property managers both locally and nationally, and is the author of several Property management classes approved in Texas for continuing education, and the Texas Real Estate Commission has certified the expert as an instructor of property management classes. In addition to authored classes, he has had over 25 property management articles published.

This expert is a certified and highly credentialed property manager. Since earning his bachelors degree in Business Management and Real Estate Studies, this expert has spent over 25 years in the property management field. He is the owner and operator of a full service real estate property management firm that specializes in the management of private residential, commercial, and industrial property throughout the Northeast US. Additionally, he has previous federal property management experience working with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ), and the United States Marshals Service (USMS). He routinely handles emergency maintenance, finances, summary process, and small claims action for numerous properties.

This expert has about 10 years experience in property management. He has vast experience as a property portfolio manager where he was responsible for asset management, building code compliance, and real estate/insurance appraisal. He is currently the Director of Community Association Management for the Pacific Northwest at a California based property management company.

This experienced trial lawyer has taken 105 cases to judgment and verdict, specializing in business, real estate, and legal malpractice. He earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California Law School and then spent several years with law firm Meserve, Mumper & Hughes. The expert later worked as a Partner for Haight, Dickson, Brown & Bonesteel, where he was in charge of the legal malpractice unit. He also served as a Principal with Rodi, Pollock, Pettker, Galbraith & Phillips and then with Newkirk, Newkirk, Rolin & Drucker. The expert is a Member of the Superior Court Arbitration Panel and a Past President of the Lawyers Professional Liability Bar Association of Southern California. He currently focuses his consulting efforts on attorney conduct in compliance with applicable standards of care.

This experienced consumer advocate is currently an actuarial consultant, who for the past two years has been engaged as a plaintiff's expert witness in two title insurance cases in federal court involving fee shifting of closing costs on VA guaranteed loans into title insurance premiums, search and examination fees by two of the largest mortgage originators in the United States. He is also currently engaged in two cases representing consumers alleging failure to pay full replacement costs by two of the largest homeowners insurers in the United States. He has also testified as an actuarial expert witness against a recent NCCI proposed 19.6% workers compensation insurance rate increase in the state of Florida. This expert has a long history of testifying on behalf of consumers in insurance rate cases in New Jersey, Georgia, California, Texas and Florida. A fellow of both the Casualty Actuarial Society and Society of Actuaries and also a member of the American Academy of Actuaries, he previously served in a managerial position at Ernst & Young. For roughly ten years, he served as an actuary with the Florida Office of Insurance Consumer Advocate. He earned his BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and his MBA from the University of Utah.

This expert has been a property valuation and appraisal consultant since 1974. He has completed valuation and consulting assignments for federal, state and local governments and agencies, public and private companies, lending institutions, trust departments, and individuals. He is nationally recognized as an appraiser of large land tracts.

This expert has more than 25 years of real estate experience in domestic and international markets. She advises public and private companies, lenders, hedge funds and secured and unsecured creditors on complex real estate issues. Specific areas of professional expertise include dispute resolution, the valuation of loan and REIT portfolios, strategic planning for the acquisition and disposition of major real estate assets, the marketability and feasibility of large scale development and the allocation of purchase price resulting from corporate acquisitions and mergers. She also performs fair value analyses for loan portfolios in accordance with generally accepted accounting standards. She has advised clients on a variety of matters for the following property types: investment grade office complexes; regional shopping malls and power centers; corporate headquarters, distribution and manufacturing facilities for Fortune 500 companies; sports and entertainment complexes; hospitals, nursing homes and related health care facilities; medical and bio-technical research and laboratory complexes; transportation and utility corridors; power generation and distribution facilities; full service hotel and resort properties; transportation and utility corridors; power generation and distribution facilities. She serves as an arbitrator and mediator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA) and FINRA, formerly the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). She is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate and is a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, a global real estate professional organization. She also maintains the MAI designation from the Appraisal Institute and is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). She has served on on the National Executive Committee of the Counselors of Real Estate and is on various professional boards including Adavanced Board of Real Estate Development (ABRED).

This highly qualified real estate appraiser has extensive experience in commercial and high value properties with an emphasis on litigation, diminution in value, eminent domain, taxation, partial interests, and zoning. He holds top real estate appraisal licenses in the state of New York and belongs to a number of prestigious professional associations in the field -- most notably as a member and former president of the Columbia Society of Real Estate Appraisers. He has also taught courses at NYU and Baruch College on real estate appraisal, valuation, and investment. Currently, this expert is a practicing general real estate appraiser and an appraisal instructor at a New York area real estate teaching institute.

This expert has over 30 years experience as an insurance claim adjuster specializing in helping clients manage residential and commercial insurance claims after natural disasters or fires damage their property. He is a graduate of University of Central Oklahoma and a Certified Property Manager (CPM) with the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM). He is licensed in 11 states. He is currently the Regional Director at a public insurance adjusting company where he oversees Commercial Insurance Claims, Business Owner Insurance Claims, Risk Management, Recovery from Natural Disaster and Property loss, Commercial Property Re-positioning, and Homeowner Insurance Claim.

This expert has over 40 years full-time real estate appraising experience involving all types of properties. He is a licensed Real Estate Broker in KS and MO and a licensed Gneral Real Propert Appraiser in KS, MO, and CO. Additionally, he is an instructor for CLE appraisal and real estate classes in 7 states. He recently conducted a CLE course titled "Handling Eminent Domain Cases in Missouri and Kansas". He is currently the owner and principal appraiser at an appraisal consultancy based in Kansas City, MO.

This expert has 13 years of experience in residential appraising in most MD counties. She is a Certified Residential Real Estate Appraiser, working with both lenders and individual clients to provide prompt and accurate real estate valuations for the purpose of purchase, refinance, estate and financial planning, tax appeals and other purposes. Prior to her position as Lead Appraiser/ Owner of a real estate appraisal firm, she was Appraiser at RT Appraiser. She is also a licensed Realtor.

This expert earned his BA in Political Science and his JD from the University of California. He has developed a track record of successes and is frequently quoted in media throughout the United States. In addition, he is highly recognized in his field and gained his experience in law by initially working in a well known national firm, while later honing his skills at a well respected real estate and entertainment law firm. Currently, he serves as the Lead Trial Attorney at a leading real estate firm in Los Angeles.

This real estate appraiser and advisor is the principal of a real estate valuation and consulting firm in the Jacksonville, Florida area. He has over 40 years experience in the commercial real estate field including appraisal, consulting, litigation support, expert witness testimony, development and construction management disciplines.

This qualified expert received his BS in Business Administration, Finance, and Real Estate and his BSF in Forest Management from the University of Florida at Gainesville. He is a certified Forester, Tree Farm Inspector, and Master Logger. He is an active member in multiple organizations, including the Florida Forestry Association and the Society of American Foresters. Formerly, he was a soil technician, range technician, procurement forester, and land manager. Currently, he is a real estate broker at a firm in Gainesville, a timberland subject matter expert, a land management specialist, a certified forester and a timber purchaser in Florida.

This highly qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in the commercial real estate finance industry and his expertise includes real estate asset management, mortgage loan servicing, risk assessment and mitigation and relationship management. After receiving his bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Finance from Georgia State University, this expert went on to be a Contract Administrator at the Federal Asset Disposition Association. He then worked as a Contract Specialist at Resolution Trust Corporation before becoming a Director at Kilburn-Young Asset Management Corp. From there, this expert worked as the Vice President of Portfolio Management at CapMark Services LP, where he was responsible for negotiation of servicing and asset management agreements, determination of scopes of work, deal implementation, oversight of complex borrower requests and managing a staff of real estate and portfolio management professionals. For the most recent 15 years, this expert worked as the Vice President and Head of Servicing at Voya Investment Management, where he was responsible for the servicing, administration, and surveillance of commercial real estate mortgage loan portfolios totaling $12+ billion. Currently, he provides consulting services to the commercial lending industry.

This highly qualified expert has been involved in the construction services industry for over 30 years. He is a licensed general contractor and real estate broker in North Carolina. He has previously led community engagement and business development efforts for Kellog Brown and Root’s commercial construction unit and has extensive experience in construction supply-chain operations and government / corporate diverse and small business inclusion programs. Additionally, he has worked as a director of two higher education business development programs focused on small business diversity. Currently, he is a consultant for and the former Vice President of Business Development and Community Affairs for a construction services company in North Carolina.

Educated as an engineer at Duke University with a Master's degree in Management from MIT, this expert has dedicated his career to real estate development, remodeling and home building since 1986. He has been an owner and manager of several small building and development entities in the Baltimore metropolitan region, constructing more than 500 single family and multi-family residences. A hands-on manager, he participates in key aspects of the building and development process: architectural design, contract negotiation, site supervision, estimating, subcontractor management, sales and customer relations, quality control and inspections, and warranty oversight.