Funeral Home Operations Expert Witnesses

Morro Bay, California

Funerals & Cremation - Embalming, Licensed Embalmer, Licensed Funeral Director, Restorative Artist, Embalming Standard of Care, OSHA Compliance, Funeral Home Operations, Mortuary Operations, Funeral Home Negligence, Chain of Custody, Embalming Procedures, Decedent Preparation, Regulatory Compliance, Refrigeration, Funeral Industry Practices

I am a Licensed Embalmer and Licensed Funeral Director with a degree in Mortuary Science providing expert witness services in matters involving embalming procedures, funeral home operations, mortuary science standards, and death care industry compliance. My work focuses on evaluating adherence to accepted standards of care in funeral service practice. I have been working in death care for 21 years. For 6 of those years I have owned and operated my own embalming service for multiple mortuaries in Los Angeles, Orange County and Ventura County. I have embalmed thousands of decedents, including decomps, bone harvests, oversized cases, homicides, suicides, accident victims, and severely decomposed decedents throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. I am a restorative artist specialist and embalmed for the University of Southern California in the Anatomical Gift/Willed Body program. I have also taught restorative art through the R.E.S.T.O.R.E. program. I provide expert case review and written op...

Brooksville, Florida

Funerals & Cremation - Embalming, cremation operation and procedure, Burial, Funeral Directing, Restorative Art, Human Remains care & sheltering .Shipping of Human Remains, Funeral Home operations, Funeral Home management, Cemetery protocol and Funeral & Burial Customs

I have been providing expert services in funeral service, cremation, and cemetery related cases, since 1993, I have consulted on more than 600 matters to date -multi-state. Extensive trial experience. I provide these services nationwide, based in Florida. Testimony has included cremation protocol, practice, and standard of care, embalming protocol, practice and standard of care, and funeral home/mortuary/cemetery protocol, operations, and standard of care. Have provided sworn testimony in thirty -nine states, six federal court districts, and to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Board. Past president of Los Angeles County Funeral Directors Assn. and former board member of California Funeral Directors Association. Certified by the Conference of Funeral Service Examining Boards, in Funeral Directing and embalming, since 1982 funeral director & embalmer, I personally embalmed thousands of human remains and have personally arranged thousands of funeral services for persons of diverse belie...