Gnarus Advisors LLC

Expertise

• Liability Estimation
  Asbestos personal injury, mass tort, and environmental remediation
• Insurance Coverage & Claims Analysis
  Insurance allocation modeling, expected & intended analysis, damage timing and response justification
• Insurance Archaeology
• PRP Identification & Cost Allocation
  Causation analysis, cost modeling, strategic planning for negotiation of response costs shares, allocation as expert or as neutral
• Environmental Science
  Contaminant transport/fate, hazardous site studies and solutions, and data management/interpretation
• Trusted Advisor
  Sounding board for high level environmental program evaluation, including: balance sheet reserves, agency negotiation, vendor selection, overall program effectiveness, environmental portfolio prioritization and management, and difficult issue resolution
• Property Value Diminution
  Expert analyses based on both appraisal and real estate economics methodologies including, when appropriate, neighborhood comparison analysis and hedonic regression analysis; deposition and testimony on the effects of contamination or proximity to contamination on property values.
• Environmental Management Assessment & Systems Improvements
  In one-time management assessments and in developing comprehensive management systems for corporate programs, product lines, or manufacturing plants, Gnarus experts work with companies to assess the adequacy of their management systems and to implement real improvements in these systems. The result is improved accountability programs, performance metrics, auditing programs, and environmental information systems. Gnarus experts have extensive experience and recognize that every organization operates differently, with different corporate cultures and in different regulatory environments; a one-size-fits-all management approach is bound for failure. Gnarus experts work within the framework of a company's existing management style to develop management systems that achieve consistent and reliable results.
  
• National Contingency Plan Cost and Consistency Analysis
  Evaluation of past response costs and their necessity including the reasonableness of incurred past response costs and adequacy of documentation, including opining on cost documentation adequacy, reasonableness for the claimed response costs, and NCP consistency including the proper identification of ARARs, adequacy of public participation, and reasonableness of the remedy. Gnarus experts can compile information from legacy accounting systems to obtain technical, invoicing, and payables data associated with claimed costs for specific units and analysis to assess compliance with cost recovery standards (e.g. necessary and reasonableness, cost accounting principles, etc.) for potential cost recovery.
  
• Standard of Care Evaluation
  Gnarus experts are environmental professionals who have been actively involved in the field since the inception of the US Environmental Protection Agency. Our experts have evaluated the historical practices of companies in nearly every industry and have provided detailed and authoritative assessments of whether these practices were within the standard of care. Supported by a large in-house library of historical environmental documents including journal articles, laws and regulations, and government reports our experts can place a company's practices in an appropriate historical context.
  
• Environmental Enforcement
  Gnarus experts advise our clients in the event of enforcement action by environmental regulatory agencies in the context of civil, criminal, and administrative enforcement proceedings, as well as in negotiations to resolve noncompliance. Services include alleged noncompliance validity assessment; evaluation of agency penalty assessments and providing alternative assessments where appropriate; ability to pay analysis; development and valuation of supplemental environmental projects; determination of appropriate injunctive relief for enforcement action settlement; assistance in compliance with settlement agreements and developing management systems for that purpose.