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Breakwater has extensive experience performing financial analyses, calculating economic damages, performing forensic accounting investigations, providing expert witness testimony, and critiquing opposing expert reports and testimony. Our experience includes breach of contract, intellectual property, business interruption, insurance claims, class action damages, and environmental disputes, among others.

Breakwater has extensive experience performing financial analyses and forensic accounting investigations, calculating economic damages, providing expert witness testimony, and critiquing opposing expert reports and testimony. Our experience includes breach of contract, intellectual property, business interruption, insurance claims, class action damages, and environmental disputes, among others.

Breakwater's forensic accounting professionals are experienced with shareholder disputes, whistleblower allegations, funds tracing, analyzing complex accounting transactions and financial records, reconstructing financial statements and corporate books, and participating in fact-finding interviews, amongst other accounting and fraud investigations and activities. Our professionals have performed investigations on behalf of management and have experience working with law enforcement.

Breakwater's forensic accounting professionals are experienced with shareholder disputes, whistleblower allegations, funds tracing analyses, analyzing complex accounting transactions and financial records, reconstructing financial statements and corporate books, and participating in fact-finding interviews, amongst other accounting and fraud investigation activities. Our professionals have performed investigations on behalf of management and have experience working with law enforcement.

Breakwater has experience working on construction projects, small and large, all over the world. We are experts in quantum and forensic critical path method schedule analysis. Our team's expertise includes change order development, review and analysis of cost overruns, forensic schedule analysis, delay and disruption quantification, productivity analyses, acceleration and mitigation impact quantification, cumulative impact quantification, forensic accounting, and expert witness testimony.

Breakwater experts focus on economic issues related to insurance disputes. For policyholders we assist our clients by tracking and recording costs associated with remedying a loss, reviewing and preparing claim packages for submission to the insurance company, and assisting with the quantification of business interruption and lost profits claims, environmental claims, and construction disputes, among others. Additionally, we have assisted insurance companies defend or rebut business interruption claims and lost profits claims, class actions, construction disputes, environmental claims, reinsurance, and other disputes.

Specialties - Compliance of organizational policies, procedures and practices with standards of appropriate human resources management; preventing and investigating complaints concerning discrimination and harassment; retaliation; workplace reductions; performance appraisals, progressive discipline, wrongful terminations; reasonable accommodation, interactive process, essential functions; negligent hiring, retention, and supervision; promotion selections; FMLA; compensation, wage and hours, benefits/pension; and workplace violence, safety. Experience - Former human resource manager for Ford Motor Company. Over 100 consulting clients. Trained thousands of managers. 500+ publications. Have given trial/arbitration testimony 80+ times.

Doctor of Chiropractic also practicing Acupuncture, Physical Medicine and Percutaneous Therapy (Dry Needling.) Records review. Deposition & trial testimony. Chiropractic malpractice claims with emphasis on cases involving cervical spine manipulation, vertebral & carotid artery dissection, cervical artery stroke. Post-graduate training in Stroke Anatomy & Evaluation. Plaintiff/Defense. Standard of care. Scope of practice. Professional ethics. Failure to diagnose & refer. Medical necessity & billing review. Independent Medical Exams (IME). Active full-time practice in AZ since 1995.

We provide litigation services for a variety of purposes, including: economic damage calculations, lost business value, lost profits, partner disputes, divorce, and expert witness testimony. Our background as CPAs combined with more than a century of collective experience in providing litigation support and expert testimony in both deposition and trial give us an extraordinary capability to assist you in litigation-related matters. We are committed to providing our clients with impartiality, credibility, and superior service.

We provide intellectual property valuation services for a variety of purposes, including: infringement, economic damages, estate and gift tax, financial reporting, and marital dissolution. Our collective experience spans more than a century and extends across a wide spectrum of clients. As independent CPAs, we are able to provide our clients with impartiality and credibility, and we are committed to superior service to bring quality financial analysis to all your business valuation needs.

We provide business valuation services and intellectual property valuation for a variety of purposes, including: estate and gift tax, mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, marital dissolution, ESOP's and more. Our collective experience spans more than a century and extends across a wide spectrum of industries and business size. As independent CPAs, we are able to provide our clients with impartiality and credibility, and we are committed to superior service to bring quality financial analysis to all your business valuation needs.

Retired professor of insurance (Eastern Kentucky University and Utah State University).  Expert witness or case consultant experience in 200 cases in 27 states, both state and federal court. 100+ opinion letters, 40 depositions and 5 testifying court appearances.  Employed by insurers in 60% of the cases; by claimants in 40%.  Author/editor of insurance textbooks. 100+ articles: bad faith; company and product regulation and taxation; product performance; agent/broker duties; market conduct compliance, professional ethics.  Industry experience as home office senior executive and general counsel, field management, and field agent. Insurance and securities licensed in all US jurisdictions.

Retired professor of insurance (Eastern Kentucky University and Utah State University).  Expert witness or case consultant experience in 200 cases in 27 states, both state and federal court. 100+ opinion letters, 40 depositions and 5 testifying court appearances.  Employed by insurers in 60% of the cases; by claimants in 40%.  Author/editor of insurance textbooks. 100+ articles: bad faith; company and product regulation and taxation; product performance; agent/broker duties; market conduct compliance, professional ethics.  Industry experience as home office senior executive and general counsel, field management, and field agent. Insurance and securities licensed in all US jurisdictions.

Retired professor of insurance (Eastern Kentucky University and Utah State University).  Expert witness or case consultant experience in 200 cases in 27 states, both state and federal court. 100+ opinion letters, 40 depositions and 5 testifying court appearances.  Employed by insurers in 60% of the cases; by claimants in 40%.  Author/editor of insurance textbooks. 100+ articles: bad faith; company and product regulation and taxation; product performance; agent/broker duties; market conduct compliance, professional ethics.  Industry experience as home office senior executive and general counsel, field management, and field agent. Insurance and securities licensed in all US jurisdictions.

Retired professor of insurance (Eastern Kentucky University and Utah State University).  Expert witness or case consultant experience in 200 cases in 27 states, both state and federal court. 100+ opinion letters, 40 depositions and 5 testifying court appearances.  Employed by insurers in 60% of the cases; by claimants in 40%.  Author/editor of insurance textbooks. 100+ articles: bad faith; company and product regulation and taxation; product performance; agent/broker duties; market conduct compliance, professional ethics.  Industry experience as home office senior executive and general counsel, field management, and field agent. Insurance and securities licensed in all US jurisdictions.

Brooks Hilliard has testified in more than 40 cases involving allegedly non-performing computer software and systems (for both plaintiffs and defendants) in state and Federal courts and AAA arbitrations throughout the United States. Having completed more than 200 consulting engagements relating to business-related systems (including ERP, CRM and SCM software), his expertise includes manufacturing, distribution, service (including professional services), government and not-for-profit applications.

Brooks Hilliard has been engaged as a consulting and testifying expert in more than 20 patent infringement, software copyright and trade secret cases, including matters relating to business software, business methods, computer hardware and confidential business knowledge/information. He has specific consulting and expert experience relating to ERP, CRM and SCM software (including software for manufacturing, distribution, services, government and not-for-profit applications).

Brooks Hilliard has extensive experience consulting on and testifying in cases where the terms of art in software licenses; professional services agreements; software, hardware/server and computer network maintenance agreement; system purchase agreements and governmental procurement matters. He has been engaged as a consulting and testifying expert in more than 25 cases where license and contract terms of art that were not defined terms in the controlling agreements and where it was important to explain them such that the Court, jury or arbitrator can understand what the parties agreed to.

Experienced independent consultant for escrow and title insurance matters in Arizona, expert witness analysis and testimony regarding claims, errors and omissions, agency and direct operations, underwriting procedures, title policy analysis, and escrow closing procedures. Over 40 years of broad industry experience as executive for national underwriter, then building, owning, operating one of the largest agency operations in the Western USA. New Agency formation our specialty!

Experienced independent consultant for escrow and title insurance matters in Arizona, expert witness analysis and testimony regarding claims, errors and omissions, agency and direct operations, underwriting procedures, title policy analysis, and escrow closing procedures. Over 40 years of broad industry experience as executive for national underwriter, then building, owning, operating one of the largest agency operations in the Western USA. New escrow and title agency formation is our specialty!