{"id":7879,"date":"2019-11-29T17:10:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T21:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/?p=7879"},"modified":"2022-08-03T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:36:52","slug":"a-bundle-of-blogs-on-the-need-for-peer-review-in-forensic-engineering-and-expert-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/29\/a-bundle-of-blogs-on-the-need-for-peer-review-in-forensic-engineering-and-expert-services\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bundle of Blogs: On the need for peer review in forensic engineering and expert services"},"content":{"rendered":"

Take your pick: Get your expert’s report reviewed by a peer, or rebutted by a peer.\u00a0 A peer <\/em>review has a scientific ring to it.\u00a0 A rebuttal <\/em>review has an\u00a0aggressive ring.<\/p>\n

If a peer review finds that you’re out on a limb with errors and omissions in your expert’s forensic investigation and report – it happens – you can back track and correct them.\u00a0 If a rebuttal review finds this, you’re stuck out on the limb and on the defense.\u00a0 They both cost money but money spent on peer review is better spent and less embarrassing.<\/p>\n

I’ve thought this for a while resulting in the following blogs over time.\u00a0 Also that it was time to bundle them together.<\/p>\n

I think blog #5 on controlling review costs is quite a good read.\u00a0 It explains the different ways you can retain an expert and how each can be peer reviewed.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got time to look at the blogs, you might start with #7 the first one I posted in 2013.<\/p>\n

The Bundle<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Is there an argument for a peer review of a peer review?<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Posted January 11, 2020\u00a0 I make the case for a peer review of a rebuttal report because most are biased.\u00a0 I learned this after surveying the opinion of seven experts in the Maritimes.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  2. Ridding peer review of potential bias.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Posted December 30, 2019\u00a0 A good read on six different ways of getting rid of bias in a peer review, in decreasing order of preference.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  3. Eureka! Peer review is good case management.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em> Posted November 16, 2018\u00a0 A pithy, short blog on a Eureka! moment I had that emphasized the value of peer review at any stage of the civil litigation or insurance claim resolution process.<\/li>\n
  4. Peer review pays off – 17 years later.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em> Posted May 5, 2017\u00a0 A long time to wait and not your normal payback period – more like a few months.\u00a0 This is a case history that explains how a client was spared the lost of many 10s of 1,000s of dollars.<\/li>\n
  5. Peer review costs can be controlled.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 Posted January 22, 2016\u00a0 The answer is in how you retain an expert.\u00a0 You have a choice of several different ways.\u00a0 There’s a quote at the end of this blog that really makes you think.<\/li>\n
  6. Peer reviewing an expert’s report ensures the justice system gets what it needs.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em> Posted January 15, 2016\u00a0 I emphasize the need for peer review again and note that it is provided for now in the remediation of contaminated sites – environmental engineering.\u00a0 I reviewed 16 references in drafting this blog.<\/li>\n
  7. Peer review in forensic engineering and civil litigation.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em> Posted November 26, 2013\u00a0 I explain the need for peer review in forensic work as perceived by a consulting professional engineer.\u00a0 It was prompted after I read four poorly written “expert” reports.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n

    (Posted by Eric E. Jorden, M.Sc., P.Eng. Consulting Professional Engineer, Forensic Engineer, Geotechnology Ltd., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. ejorden@eastlink.ca<\/span><\/strong>)   <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Take your pick: Get your expert’s report reviewed by a peer, or rebutted by a peer.\u00a0 A peer review has a scientific ring to it.\u00a0 A rebuttal review has an\u00a0aggressive ring. If a peer review finds that you’re out on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7879"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10249,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7879\/revisions\/10249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ericjorden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}