Comprehensive Forensic Engineering Services

LGI Forensic Engineering provides multidisciplinary forensic engineering, property claims investigation, and failure analysis services that resolve complex general liability, products liability, and subrogation matters.

Our Services

Engineering Disciplines

Civil, Structural, & Architectural Engineering

LGI’s professional engineers in this discipline investigate and opine on a wide range of property related issues, residential, commercial, and industrial. These issues include structural damage and failures related to water, wind, flood, lightning, earthquake and storm damage. They can also speak to the different building systems and building and safety codes involving foundations, siding, roofing, flooring, windows, doors, building envelope, and bridges/infrastructure. They can perform building inspections, and can also speak to standard of care for contractors, and also handle Slip/Trip/Fall cases involving flooring, stairs, hand rails, playground equipment, etc.

Mechanical Engineering

LGI’s professional engineers in this discipline investigate and opine on residential and commercial accidents, and failures of machinery, appliances/products, HVAC systems, plumbing/piping systems, boilers & burners, control systems, gas & steam systems, utilities/power distribution.

Electrical Engineering

LGI’s engineers in this discipline investigate and opine on residential, commercial, and industrial issues involving electrical systems, including electrical accidents and injuries, electrical equipment & control systems, electrical fires, lightning damage to components, lighting issues, appliances/products evaluations, security systems, utilities and underground wiring, electrical codes and safety codes.

Construction Services

LGI’s Civil/Structural engineers and forensic architects, all with backgrounds in construction-related services, investigate and opine on construction accidents, construction defects, construction delays, construction injuries (New York State Labor Law issues), architectural consulting, construction disputes, vibration claims, standard of care for contractors, building & safety codes, OSHA related issues, building envelope and façade analysis, and construction product failures.

Fire & Explosion Services

LGI’s electrical, mechanical, and structural engineers assist independent fire investigators in the investigation of electrical and mechanical related fires and explosions. LGI’s fire analysts also can opine on fire suppression, fire protection engineering, fire spread, and vehicle & vessel fire analysis. All LGI experts handling these cases are required by ownership to have the Certified Fire & Explosion Investigator (CFEI) designation.

Litigation Services

All LGI professional experts and engineers can assist their clients with litigated files. They provide investigations and reports for their clients and then can also write affidavits regarding the case, be deposed by opposing counsel, and testify in court regarding their professional opinions in the case. This includes case reviews, review of opposing expert reports, demonstrative evidence, discovery requests, scientific research and simulations and mock-ups.

Environmental Services

Some of LGI’s engineers are able to assist with the investigation of residential and commercial issues including mold investigations, HazMat incidents, underground storage tanks, and indoor air quality/sick building syndrome.

Failure and Origin & Cause Investigations

Our laboratory technicians and engineers analyze failures, perform critical testing, and conduct research to help uncover the cause and origin of failures. LGI understands the formulation of concise and accurate opinions based on factual evidence is critical to the resolution of insurance claims and court cases.

Our Services

Failure & Origin-and-Cause Investigation

Our Services

Litigation Support & Expert Witness

For our litigation clients,
we provide…

Demonstrative evidence

Mock-ups

Simulations

as well as strategic
support for…

Construction injuries

Construction disputes

New York State Labor Law cases

Our Services

Personal Injury Analysis

For personal injury and homeowners claims.

Construction accidents

Premises liability

Ergonomic evaluations

Demonstrative evidence

Playground safety

Human‑factors analysis

Our Process

Virtual Examinations

Secure, high-definition virtual lab exams enable joint inspections, live collaboration, and remote observation of destructive testing, microscopy, and fracture analysis.