Tom Taormina, CMC, CMQ/OE — Taormina Group, Inc.
Areas of Expertise: Product Liability
The Taormina group provides consulting and testifying witness expertise in product liability and organizational negligence litigation. Principal Tom Taormina is the creator of Forensic Business Pathology®, a proven methodology for quantifying standard of care based upon forensic science.
Tom was part of the recovery team at NASA's Mission Control Center during the Apollo 13 disaster. He actually heard the words “Houston, we have a problem” first hand. The problem-solving techniques used to bring James Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert back home in April 1970 have been synthesized over 40 years into the foundation of Forensic Business Pathology®.
Because Forensic Business Pathology® investigates business processes rather than forensic evidence, FBP shifts case focus from subjective evidence interpretation to concise narrative reports that establish degree of defendant compliance with statutory, regulatory, industry and product standards.
Forensic Business Pathology® uncovers whether or not the producing company exhibited behavior ranging from appropriate standard of care to willful negligence or disregard.
With numerous case studies and favorable outcomes, savvy litigators have successfully integrated FBP into their case strategies. It has changed the way attorneys approach proving or disproving negligence, standard of care and foreseeable risk.
While the tools are new to litigation, they are time-proven in business process and quality management and they have never been subject to a Daubert challenge.
If the techniques of Forensic Business Pathology® can safely bring three astronauts home from the moon, then any products liability issue can be safely brought back to Earth.