Dr. Richard Parish

provides forensic engineering and litigation assistance, including accident reconstruction, in cases involving agricultural equipment, lawn and garden equipment, grounds maintenance equipment, forestry equipment, etc.

For industry and academia, he provides services in product design, development, and testing including fertilizer spreaders, cultivators, and toolbars. For a list of design projects, click here.

Dr. Parish has 40+ years experience as a consultant, university professor, and manager of an engineering department in industry. He has written more than 100 refereed publications and is currently Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Engineering at Louisiana State University.

Types of Cases, Both Plaintiff and Defense:

• Advertising claims
• Negligence
• Personal injury
• Product liability
• Product performance
• Wrongful death

Types of Accidents Investigated:

• Crushing
• Cuts/lacerations/eye injuries from mowers, rotary cutters, and other machines
• Drowning
• Electrocution
• Fire
• Loss of limb(s)
• Overturn/rollover
• Suffocation

For a list of equipment (products) involved in legal cases, click here.

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Your thorough knowledge of the art, your reports and pretrial preparation and, ultimately, your presence at trial made it possible for us to come out of this case with a victory. In fact, I have heard [name redacted] identify you on several occasions as the best example of the great advantage to be gained by having the right expert on the team."