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VERTEX delivers expert forensic consulting and claims resolution services, leveraging a multidisciplinary team to support clients in navigating complex disputes, assessing liabilities, and achieving fair settlements.
VERTEX has responded to dozens of catastrophic events and worked on thousands of construction and design disputes.
VERTEX’s seasoned forensics team includes accounting, architectural, construction, engineering, environmental, safety, and contract experts who have responded to natural disasters and catastrophic events, and who have worked on thousands of construction, development, and design disputes as well as contract disputes. We offer Forensic Consulting services throughout the globe to a diverse mix of markets and industries that include attorneys, insurance carriers, third party administrators, sureties, developers, HOAs, property owners and managers as well as contractors. Our clients hire us to provide experts, often with litigation and deposition experience. Whether to support an insurance or legal claim matter or consult for distressed construction or design disputes, VERTEX offers turnkey forensic solutions.
We also help clients assess and allocate liabilities, and evaluate plaintiff declarations to determine reasonable costs. VERTEX is unique in that we tender our cost of repair reports as formal bids to complete the work. This verifies the legitimacy of our estimates and promotes fair settlements.
VERTEX is an industry leader in the surety claims marketplace. We have successfully worked on many of the largest and most complex surety claim assignments throughout the globe.
VERTEX’s experts help contractors, owners, sureties, and insurance carriers investigate and manage litigated construction claims.
VERTEX manages environmental risk with clients and proactively avoids unplanned costs on projects located throughout the globe.
VERTEX’s fire services include investigating the origin & cause of damage from fire and explosions. We also have a team of fire protection and life safety engineers and experts dedicated to matters involving building life safety systems.
VERTEX’s forensic engineering services include investigating the cause and extent of damage from weather events and construction defects.
VERTEX’s cost-of-repair experts estimate repair programs and allocate costs to responsible parties. We stand behind our estimates and offer to complete the subject work.
VERTEX’s architectural experts provide a wide range of litigation support services, including opining on the architect’s standard of care & assisting with construction defect matters.
VERTEX provides forensic accounting and fraud investigation services, including pre-litigation strategy, trial support, asset misappropriation, money laundering, and construction project audits, backed by experts with extensive courtroom experience and specialized knowledge in complex construction claims.
VERTEX provides independent property insurance appraisal services to assess damages and expedite dispute resolution.
VERTEX offers comprehensive consulting for Builder’s Risk and Delay in Start-Up insurance, assessing damages, quantifying financial loss, and evaluating repair plans to minimize delays and impact on construction projects for contractors and owners.
VERTEX offers expert consulting for Subcontractor Default Insurance (SDI) claims, minimizing project time loss with accurate evaluation and timely reports, supported by specialized experts in construction accounting and scheduling.
Senior Managing Director and Practice Area Lead – Commercial Damages & Investigation
Claims and Forensic Investigations case studies
Featured Case Studies in Claims and Forensic Investigations
VERTEX was retained by the surety who bonded the framing and drywall subcontractor on the ground-up construction of a 6-story hotel in Tampa, FL.
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VERTEX uncovered structural risks and sinkhole concerns beneath a Mid-Atlantic warehouse due to poor drainage and design deviations.
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Discover how hidden deck defects led to near-collapse and how VERTEX identified structural risks to ensure homeowner safety and compliance.
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VERTEX helped reduce a $547K TENORM remediation claim by 13% after site inspection and cost review at an oil well fire in North Dakota.
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VERTEX forensic experts have provided damage assessments for hundreds of properties in the San Diego Wildfires.
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VERTEX successfully assisted a surety in a construction project dispute, evaluating allegations of delayed performance and deficient work. We facilitated a favorable mediated settlement for the surety with the obligee.
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Expert testimony helped resolve a $3.8M construction dispute between a GC and subcontractor in San Bernardino County Superior Court.
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VERTEX was retained to review the remedial costs from a claim from a fire and subsequent explosion of an isobutylene aboveground storage tank (AST).
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Explore news, thought leadership, and educational resources on Claims and Forensic Investigations from VERTEX’s Expert Services team.
On Thursday, May 15th, the Utica Claims Association (UCA) will host its first quarterly meeting in New Hartford, NY, beginning at 5:30 PM. VERTEX will be in attendance, represented by…
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