Forensic History
Forensic historians use established historical research and analytical methodologies to apply history to real world environmental and product liability questions. Over the past 25 years, FTI Consulting’s team of forensic historians have worked on hundreds of environmental, product liability, toxic tort, due diligence, and other matters.
How We Help
FTI Consulting’s clients use our services to understand the context surrounding historical issues, to inform critical decision-making, and to resolve complex environmental and product liability disputes. Our forensic historians are integrated with FTI Consulting’s technical, accounting, geospatial, data management, data science, and strategic communications professionals to provide FTI Consulting’s clients with a comprehensive approach to project implementation.
Service Offerings
- Contaminant Nexus Analysis
- Corporate Lineage Analysis
- Government Involvement Studies
- Historical Imagery Research
- Historical Land Use Studies
- Industry Practices Studies
- Potentially Responsible Party (PRP) Searches
- Product Histories
- Regulatory Histories
- Site Operations Histories
- Standard-of-Care Analysis
- State-of-Knowledge Analysis
Areas of Expertise
- Chemicals (PCBs, Perchlorate, PFAS, PCE, TCE, etc.)
- Climate Change
- Groundwater Contaminant Plumes
- Manufacturing
- Mining and Smelting
- Natural Resource Damages
- Petroleum
- Product Liability (asbestos, lead paint, silica, talc, etc.)
- Sediment Sites/Urban Waterways
- 3rd Party Disposal Sites (landfills, lagoons, ponds, etc.)
