Kristen E. Lipscomb, Ph.D., an associate at Hayes + Associates, Inc., has been appointed to a newly formed industry advisory board established at the University of Portland on behalf of students enrolled in a recently-established master’s degree program in biomedical engineering.

Reconstruction by Hayes & Associates, Inc., on the roles played by occupant dynamics and injury biomechanics in determining impact speed between a jet ski and a larger boat in 2008 contributed to the decision by a Los Angeles jury to award $21.7 million to a 20-year-old woman who suffered a permanent brain injury in the Riverside County incident.

Technical analysis by Hayes + Associates in Corvallis, Oregon played a role in a Montana jury’s award of $248 million in punitive damages to two families of young men killed in a fiery collision involving a 2005 Hyundai Tiburon.

Research by Hayes+Associates, Inc., a Corvallis, Ore., consulting firm, and testimony by H+A President Wilson C. “Toby” Hayes, Ph.D., helped convince a federal jury in Wilmington, Delaware, that three patents owned by Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) DePuy Synthes unit, a maker of artificial spinal-repair products, were infringed by intervertebral-implant products sold by Globus Medical Inc. (GMED).

On Friday, December 1, 2017, Hayes+Associates CEO, Toby Hayes, shared case stories and courtroom drama with 7th and 8th grade students in the AVID Program at Calipooia Middle School in Albany OR.