Boss Engineering Company is a leader in providing high-quality civil engineering, land planning, land surveying and landscape architecture services.

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Expert Witness Cases

 

 

We have provided expert witness in the 44th District Court in Livingston County and the Circuit Courts in Oakland, Washtenaw, Wayne, Ogemaw and Charlevoix Counties, as well as the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Detroit, Michigan and Michigan Tax Tribunal.

   
 

We have expertise in Site Analysis, Storm Water Management Systems, Infrastructure, Road Design, Sewage Treatment Systems, Septic Systems, Manufactured Housing, Land Development and Surveying.  We are Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors with over 30 years of practical and court experience.

   
 

Testified as expert witness:

     

In area of design and construction costs for residential development as well as standard procedures for approval process in cases of US government vs. developer.

     

 

     

In storm water management issues including pipe sizing, pond design, rainfall intensity/duration, etc., in case of Township vs. land owner.

     

 

     

In storm water design and management in case involving MDEQ and County Drain Commission vs. land owner.

     

 

   

In land development including the process, associated fees, and government involved and requirements in case of Township vs. private developer.

     

 

   

In generation of Residential Equivalent Units (REU) with regards to sanitary sewer and water flows.

     

 

     

In storm water management and development process in case of accident victim vs. County Road Commission.

     

 

     

In wastewater treatment system in case of Village vs. engineer and contractor.

     

 

     

In exclusionary zoning case including evaluating sites for development, development costs and state agency requirements in case involving private land owner vs. township and interveners.

     

 

     

On behalf of a manufactured housing community owner and his engineering firm providing testimony regarding the adequacy of a storm water collection and detention system design for a manufactured housing development in response to an adjacent property owner's claim that the system was deficient in design and construction and causing flooding on his property.

     

 

     

On behalf of a manufactured housing community developer providing testimony concerning professional negligence by an engineering firm regarding services they provided to the developer.

     

 

     

Providing testimony on behalf of a construction company concerning a breach in the standard of care by an engineering firm regarding wastewater treatment design services they provided to construction company during the design and construction phase of a golf course clubhouse and banquet facility.

     

 

     

Providing testimony at the request of the court regarding the failure to construct an on-site sewage disposal system in accordance with the construction permit issued by a County Health Department.

     

 

     

Providing testimony on behalf of an engineering firm concerning the adequacy of engineering design services they provided on a manufactured housing community project.