NATURAL DISASTER EXPERT WITNESS
NATURAL HAZARDS WITNESS EXPERTISE

NATURAL DISASTER EXPERT WITNESS 2024

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A natural disaster expert witness is defined through a specialized person who assesses the damages and injuries of a natural event a natural event called also natural catastrophe such as a hurricane, a flood, mudslide, earthquake, avalanche, drought, tornadoes, volcanic eruption, tsunami or storm.

The natural disaster expert witness aims to evaluate objectively the financial costs resulting from a major adverse event produced through a natural process that can have devastating negative impacts on goods, properties and persons.

A natural hazards expert witness is often required by an insurance company or an insurance policy holder when a natural disaster in the form of a flood, earthquake or forest fire damages the property of an insured person or business premises.

Natural disasters expert witnesses elaborate a due diligence that serves as testimony that includes a loss due to the vagaries of nature and to ensure that the insured person doesn’t puts in a list of claims damages that has no relation to the accidents of nature.

A natural disaster expert witness must of course first consider the situation in the damage area and whether the local authorities have declared the area in question as a natural disaster area or not.