Kerri H. Grant
13810 Bramborough Road
Huntersville, NC 28078
Direct: 704.584.9884
Email: kgrant@gnarusllc.com
SUMMARY
Ms. Grant has extensive experience as a consultant specializing in the modeling and analysis of matters related to a range of environmental, mass tort, and insurance coverage issues. The primary focus of Ms. Grant’s work to date has been: (1) aiding in the provision of expert testimony and settlement support in environmental, product liability and insurance recovery litigation, and (2) providing consulting expertise on appropriate forecasting and disclosure for environmental liabilities. This includes the development of detailed probabilistic, environmental damage, cost causation, litigation risk and insurance allocation models. Her clients include many leading law firms as well as major firms in the automobile manufacturing, consumer manufacturing, aerospace, insurance and electric and gas production and distribution industries.
EDUCATION
M.S., Environmental Assessment and Evaluation, The London School of Economics and Political Science
B.S.E., Civil/Environmental Engineering, Princeton University
PRESENT POSITION
Gnarus Advisors LLC, Principal, 1/2009 – Present
PREVIOUS POSITIONS HELD
LECG, LLC, Senior Managing Consultant, Managing Consultant & Senior Consultant, 9/2001 – 12/2008
PHB Hagler Bailly, Inc., Consultant, Senior Analyst & Analyst, 9/1998 – 9/2000
ENVIRONMENTAL & MASS TORT LIABILITY ESTIMATION
Ms. Grant has worked with numerous utilities and consumer manufacturers to develop environmental models to project future liability associated with remediation of contaminated property. These detailed, site-specific models employ a probabilistic assessment method, combining engineering principles, knowledge of remedial technologies, and regulatory awareness to quantify a range of potential costs and the best estimate of costs under uncertainty for remedial, natural resource and bodily injury damages. Ms. Grant has worked with clients to establish appropriate reserve estimates for potential liabilities and to formulate a strategic approach to addressing future claims. Ms. Grant has also worked with clients to project the magnitude and timing of future mass tort-related claims associated with “failure to warn” issues, contractor and premises liability, and product liability.
INSURANCE RECOVERY & STRUCTURING
Ms. Grant has worked with counsel and senior management to resolve insurance coverage disputes by combining her expertise in liability estimation with detailed knowledge of insurance coverage issues. Ms. Grant has aided her clients in the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars by developing complicated quantitative models to evaluate the cost consequences of alternative insurance coverage theories, allocating liability to insurance profiles, and precisely calculating and summarizing assigned carrier liability. Ms. Grant has also worked with clients to estimate damages and structure coverage for potential environmental and asbestos liability for which insurance could meaningfully reduce exposure.
LITIGATION RISK ANALYSIS & COST ALLOCATION
Ms. Grant has employed probabilistic techniques for litigation risk analysis to enhance clients' abilities to think strategically about litigation, remediation and settlement strategies relating to significant environmental claims. Ms. Grant has helped defend cost causation allocation principles to distribute cleanup costs and address orphan share issues, assisting in settlement negotiations at several Superfund sites. Ms. Grant has also evaluated the reasonableness of remediation activities and costs incurred by major electric utilities.
