COUNSELORS-AT-APPRAISAL®
EDS’ internationally accredited appraisal review experts and appraiser-attorneys provide independent appraisal analysis, appraisal review expert witness testimony, appraisal litigation support, and appraisal mediation and arbitration and umpire services to attorneys, courts, and government agencies throughout the world.
Our appraisal review expert witness and litigation support services have helped our clients prevail in Billions of dollars of claims.
We specialize in handling:
BP Oil Spill Claims Documentation, Valuation, and Handling: Interim Reappraisals and Reassessment of Real Property Values (Fl. Executive Order 10-169), and Business Interruption, Economic Damages, Loss-of-Income and other BP Oil Spill related claim matters at our New Orleans and Lafayette, Louisiana and Florida offices)
Takings, Right-of-Way, Zoning, Condemnation and Eminent Domain Valuation Matters
National Security Related Valuation Matters Requiring TS Clearance
Valuation Fairness Opinions and Analyses
Complex and Multi-Disciplinary Valuations Involving Multiple Components of Business Valuation / Real Property / Machinery and Technical Services / Personal Property
Appraiser Misconduct / Malpractice and Appraisal Fraud
Appraiser / Valuation Expert Daubert / Rule 702 / USPAP Competency Challenges
Appraisal Review and Analyses of Superfund Sites and Environmentally Sensitive and Impaired Real Property
Our appraisal review experts conduct in-depth analyses and provide objective opinions and advice that help resolve complex appraisal and valuation issues. We advise client counsel in the preparation of appraisal related discovery, Daubert / Rule 702 challenges, and appraisal and appraiser regulatory compliance with U.S. state and federal law, the Uniform Standards for Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), International Valuation Standards (IVS), and Basel Accord compliance.
The newly enacted Pension Protection Act of 2006 rewrites federal regulations defining “qualified appraiser” and “qualified appraisal”. With this, revisions to federal law redefining an “expert witness” place new challenges in advising and handling appraisal expert witness related matters in litigation. EDS’s internationally accredited appraisal review experts meet or exceed these new stringent regulations, and provide our clients an unparalleled level of valuation and appraisal expertise.
