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Consulting Practice of Timothy Wyant, Ph. D.
Timothy Wyant specializes in statistical research and analysis, statistical survey design, statistical project management, statistical computing and simulation studies, statistical litigation support, and computerized mapping and geospatial analysis. He has applied his expertise in a variety of environmental and toxic exposure projects, and in such additional applications as biomedical studies, employment discrimination analyses, evaluation of auto insurance claims, fraud detection, pricing of medical services, and ambulance transport services. A discussion of some of this work appears below.Asbestos Disease Liability Dr. Wyant has provided forecasts of asbestos disease claims and liabilities for a number of asbestos bankruptcies, including Eagle-Picher, UNR, Wallace and Gale, Fuller-Austin, Rock Wool, and Rutland Fire Clay. In these bankruptcies, he worked at various times for debtors, insurers, future claimants, and nonprofit claims resolution trusts. On numerous occasions, he provided expert testimony or filed affidavits or reports. He has also provided forecasts of asbestos disease liability to utilities, manufacturers, and investment firms. Regulatory Evaluations and Litigation SupportDr. Wyant testified on behalf of the claimants' committee in the Dalkon Shield bankruptcy, and was responsible for claims evaluation rules and payout forecasts for the Dalkon Shield Claims Resolution Trust. He has provided expert testimony on behalf of state attornies general, Blue Cross Blue Shield health plans, and the U.S. Department of Justice with regard to past and future death, disease, and health care costs attributable to smoking. Environmental Disaster AnalysesWhile employed by the U.S. Geological Survey, Dr. Wyant co-authored numerous oil spill risk assessments for environmental impact studies related to offshore drilling and transport. He also worked on flood prediction models and on effects of strip mining on flooding and wildlife. As an independent statistical consultant, he reviewed similar oil spill risk assessments, and analyzed frequency distributions of ice ridges and ice ridge thickness for Arco as part of its R&D programs to design ice-breaking oil tankers and offshore rigs for the Alaskan North Slope fields. Toxic ExposureDr. Wyant designed sample surveys to assess indoor air quality for litigations related to disease liability and property damage from urea foam formaldehyde insulation. He analyzed numerous studies of industrial respirator effectiveness for the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the agency that is responsible for setting design and quality control standards for such products. As an independent statistical consultant, he worked for utilities on analyses of airborne particulate emissions as a function of different stack-cleaning and emission control technologies, and analyzed simulation models to assess the likely distribution of airborne particulates from coal-fired power plants in the western United States. Climatological AnalysisDr. Wyant analyzed and provided testimony on cold winter natural gas demands on the El Paso Natural Gas system in the western United States. This work was done on behalf of Arizona Electric Power Cooperatives and the Papago Tribal Utility Authority for cases before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. As a consultant to the U.S. Geological Survey, he worked on models to predict droughts and reservoir levels. Computerized Mapping and Geospatial AnalysisSince the 1970s, Dr. Wyant has worked on computerized mapping and geospatial analysis. He has developed computerized maps to summarize or predict ocean currents, simulated and actual offshore oil spills, employment patterns, insurance claims, medical survey data for air pollution studies, and sightings and surveys of wildlife populations. |
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