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January 2024: Mike Panish, Door & Gate Expert Witness and Construction Expert Witness has been retained on over 2200 cases since the year 2000. Retained equally by plaintiff and defense firms for all types of personal injury and construction defect legal cases. Mr. Panish is the most retained expert for any type of door or gate personal injury case throughout the United States and Internationally. Mr. Panish has over 40 years of trade experience and a thorough working understanding of all aspects of the construction industry.

October 2021: Mike Panish, Door & Gate Expert Witness and Construction Expert Witness has been retained on over 1700 cases since the year 2000. Retained equally by plaintiff and defense firms for all types of personal injury and construction defect legal cases. Mr. Panish is the most retained expert for any type of door or gate personal injury case throughout the United States and Internationally. Mr. Panish has over 35 years of trade experience and a thorough working understanding of all aspects of the construction industry.

January 2021: Mike Panish, Construction Expert Witness and Door & Gate Expert Witness is retained equally by plaintiff & defense firms for personal injury and construction defect cases. Mr. Panish specializes in all types of doors & gates, casework and cabinetry claims, and most construction trades. He is the most retained door and gate expert in the country and has provided expert services in every state in the US with active cases in Canada and Europe. Mr. Panish has over 35 years of trade experience and a thorough working understanding of all aspects of the construction industry.

January 2020: Mike Panish has been retained on over 1500 cases to date since the year 2000. For the past 20 years he has been retained equally by plaintiff and defense and is known as a professional, highly experienced, and unbiased expert whose opinions are solid, well supported, and accurate. He is retained equally by both plaintiff and defense for all types of personal injury and defect cases pertaining to any type of door or gate. He is frequently retained by manufacturers and service providers. Mike is currently retained on active cases in 48 states and throughout Canada.

December 2019: Mike Panish is the nation's leading expert for any type of door or gate case for personal injury or defect. He is also a unique and highly qualified construction expert witness who is experienced in most construction trades and any phase of construction and can make sense of any construction related problem. Mike gets results for plaintiff and defense.

February 2017: Mike Panish has been retained on over 1000 cases to date since the year 2000. He is the legal expert witness that is counted on by both plaintiff and defense to give fair and unbiased assessment of any type of case that is his expertise. He is the go-to expert for any type of door related injury or defect including manual doors, automatic doors, revolving doors, gate injuries, overhead doors, and garage doors. He is the most retained expert witness for any type of door or door hardware issue. He is also the finest and most thorough construction expert witness in the country with expertise and hands-on experience in most construction trades. Over the past 16 years, he has been retained for cases in almost every state and services clients nationwide. Mr. Panish is responsible for multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for plaintiffs, and can help limit liability or removal from lawsuit for defendants.

January 2016: Mike Panish has been retained on over 950 cases to date. He is retained almost equally by Plaintiff and Defense for all types of cases including all types of construction defect cases involving all construction trades. He is the nation's leading expert witness for all types of door related defects and injuries including manual doors, automatic doors, automatic gate injuries, and overhead door/garage door injuries. Mike is also the only expert witness in the country qualified to opine on cabinetry and furniture related defects and injuries. Attorneys all over the country continue to count on Mike Panish to inspect and report on his findings and work with them through discovery toward settlement or trial.

June 2015: Mike Panish has been retained on over 900 cases to date, and is the Nation's most retained expert witness for door and automatic door related personal injury cases, construction related injuries & defects, premises security, and slip, trip, fall cases. Mike's expertise as an expert witness is multi-disciplined in the construction field with specialty expertise in doors, automatic doors, most construction trades, and cabinetry & architectural millwork.

June 20, 2014: Mike Panish, Construction Expert Witness and Door & Automatic Door Expert, has launched an even better redesigned website at www.ConstructionWitness.com which features a new responsive design (continue reading) . . .