Leading Experts in Forensic and Litigation Support
At the Kent companies, we provide forensic and expert witness support across a variety of industries, including construction, multifamily and commercial, manufacturing, transportation, plumbing, heavy equipment and machinery, food processing, and maritime. Our staff of engineers, architects, inspectors and technicians lend their range of specialties and deep expertise to each industry, inspecting and identifying failures in order to help represent our clients well.
Together our expert witnesses have hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of experience in trials, depositions, mediations, while working with all types of attorneys and insurance clients. We have over 100 years of combined experience and have testified in dozens of high-profile court room situations. We also have hundreds of depositions under our belts. Our clients compliment us on our ability to bring a highly technical situation to the layperson’s perspective. Our companies are on a mission to hire the most technically talented, approachable, selfless, and communicative experts in the country.
Our team members are regularly selected as the lead expert and forensic laboratory on large loss and high-profile class action cases due to the experience, credentials, communication level, and relatability of our experts. At our Kent companies, our standard for hiring experts reaches past our competition to not only find the most technically capable experts but also the most socially and emotionally intelligent. Our experts are not only authorities in their discipline but are also highly effective listeners and communicators, no matter the technical background of the recipient.
About Us
Our team is our advantage. Our support team of expert mechanical, structural, materials, metallurgical, corrosion, architects and technicians sets us apart. We pride ourselves on effective communication, and we work closely with our clients every step of the way to ensure they are fully satisfied with the answers and solutions we provide.
Legal Practices Supported
- Construction Defect
- Subrogation
- Maritime
- Equipment Breakdown
- Product Liability
- Medical Device
- Personal Injury
Insurance Claims Supported
- Product Liability
- Equipment Breakdown
- Boiler
- Catastrophic Failure
- Vehicle Accidents
- Fire
- Injury or Damage
- Wind and Hail Damage
- Slip and Fall
- Water and Freezing Damage
Pursuing the Truth Through Forensics and Litigation Support Since 1983!
Serving Clients Across a Variety of Industries
At the Kent Companies, we provide forensic architecture and engineering, as well as failure analysis services across a variety of industries, including legal, insurance, manufacturing, transportation, construction, plumbing, heavy equipment and machinery, food processing, and maritime.
Our staff of architects, engineers, inspectors and technicians lend their range of specialties and deep expertise to each industry, inspecting and identifying failures in order to help represent our clients well and help build new, better, more efficient, and safer systems.
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- Randy Kent, MS, P.E.
- October 2024
- Resource Article
Are you responsible for juggling the current working condition of your property, including capital budgets, all while trying to predict when the next colossal building systems failure is going to rear its ugly head?
- Bradley Capatch, P.E.
- July 2021
- Case Study
This case study is on the evaluation of the type of degradation in the pipes and fittings for a condominium in Seattle, Washington.
- Michael Leach, MS, P.E.
- July 2021
- Case Study
In this case study, a concrete construction service hired Kent Engineering (KE) to design and load test concrete washout pans.
- Michael Leach, MS, P.E.
- July 2021
- Case Study
A welding company contacted Kent Engineering (KE) to perform testing for a new Welding Procedure Specification (WPS).
- Randy Kent, MS, P.E.
- June 2020
- Case Study
Our case study involves forensics and litigation support through an independent analysis of the failed saddle adaptor for a lifting-jack.