J.S. Held Acquires Clark Seif Clark, Strengthening West Coast Capabilities for Environmental Claims, Disputes, and Catastrophe Response
Read MoreJ.S. Held provides environmental, health, and safety consulting and expert services spanning environmental damage and remediation, environmental due diligence, energy transition, toxicology and epidemiology, industrial hygiene, product stewardship and product liability, and human health and safety.
J.S. Held is recognized as an ENR Top 200 Environmental Consulting Firm and industry leader in the Verdantix Green Quadrant for Sustainability & ESG Consulting and Enterprise Risk Management Consulting.
Our experts are engaged by insurance professionals, the legal community, corporations, utilities, public and private owners, developers, government organizations, and construction professionals on matters involving the environment, human health and safety, and regulatory compliance.
Below is an overview of the subject matter experts we have on staff, as well as our areas of environmental, health, and safety expertise.
We deliver technical and scientific expertise to help clients address high-stakes insurance claims and disputes. Our multidisciplinary team combines environmental science and engineering expertise, regulatory knowledge, and decades of claims experience to support stakeholders on all types of environmental claims, including pollution liability, remediation, statutory compliance, business interruption, historical contamination, and specialty lines.
Environmental disputes often involve complex technical questions, evolving regulatory expectations, and high‑stakes allegations. Our experts provide independent, scientifically-grounded expertise to help clarify these issues and advise counsel throughout the legal process.
We investigate environmental conditions, assess potential impacts to environmental media, and evaluate the factors that may have contributed to alleged contamination, compliance issues, or environmental harm. We leverage deep technical, scientific, and regulatory expertise to analyze complex environmental data, identify causation, quantify impacts, and develop clear, defensible conclusions that withstand the scrutiny of litigation, arbitration, or regulatory review.
As environmental disputes continue to rise in both frequency and complexity, our multidisciplinary environmental experts help legal professionals to understand and convey technical detail, evaluate competing claims, and build fact‑based interpretations.
Environmental Advisory Services
We provide strategic environmental advisory services that help organizations anticipate risk, maintain compliance, and make well‑informed operational and policy decisions.
We draw on multidisciplinary expertise in environmental science, industrial hygiene, toxicology, regulatory compliance, and risk assessment to support corporate leaders, government agencies, municipalities, school systems, and public entities in understanding the environmental conditions that influence their facilities, communities, and long‑term planning efforts.
Our experts assist with evaluating environmental liabilities, interpreting regulatory obligations, supporting environmental program development, and guiding stakeholders through emerging issues such as energy transition, environmental health risks, and sustainability requirements. We turn complex environmental information into straightforward, actionable insight that helps clients allocate resources wisely and safeguard their people, assets, and environments.
Our experts evaluate potential environmental liabilities by combining site history review, records research, and on-site assessments with clear documentation of the current environmental conditions and potential gaps in data. Our team completes Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESA) and provides risk analysis, regulatory compliance advisory, and permitting assistance to help stakeholders understand the risks, timing and cost considerations, and path forward related to the environmental conditions of their projects.
Workplace and industrial exposures can create operational disruption, bring regulatory scrutiny, and increase long-term health concerns if they are not managed correctly. When claims involve asbestos, lead, mold, legionella, smoke, noise, or other hazards, we provide efficient, objective analysis to understand the extent of risk and determine the appropriate response.
Our industrial hygiene experts perform exposure assessments, environmental sampling, air quality testing, noise and moisture mapping, and cause and origin investigations to help evaluate chemical, biological, and physical hazards in real world environments and provide clear, actionable conclusions to help insurance, corporate, and legal professionals make confident decisions.
Our toxicology and epidemiology specialists evaluate the relationship between environmental or product-related exposures and potential health outcomes. Our analyses leverage established scientific methods and defensible, independent assumptions, and provide clarity for both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.
Our team provides claims consulting and expert services spanning chemical, biological, and environmental testing; exposure, health, toxicity, and risk assessments; causation and epidemiologic analysis; product and contamination investigations; mitigation strategies; and regulatory compliance.
Product-related risks often occur at the intersection of regulatory requirements, technical performance, and real-world use conditions. Our product stewardship and liability consultants evaluate product safety, defects and failures, material selection, labeling and hazard communication, regulatory compliance, and factors that can influence environmental compliance and exposure risks over the lifecycle of a product. Our analyses help inform internal risk management and quality decisions, and are relied upon when alleged product performance, contamination, or public safety exposures are involved in complex litigation and disputes.
Our experts evaluate federal, state, and local environmental regulatory obligations—which are not always aligned—and translate them into clear, actionable insights to inform planning and ongoing operational procedures. Environmental compliance requirements can vary significantly by location, facility type, and regulated activity, and even small gaps can create outsized operational, financial, and reputational risk.
Our services include regulatory compliance audits and gap assessments, permitting and applicability review and advisory, environmental due diligence, regulatory agency interfacing, and incident-related response and remediation.
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