Component Testing Laboratories (CTL) empowers you to make confident subrogation decisions.
CTL’s engineering expertise and top-of-class reports empower you to make confident subrogation decisions. Our Professional Engineers provide product failure insights you can depend on, and our in-house transportation service, Loss Logistics, ensures evidence arrives at our facility in an unaltered condition.
CTL and Loss Logistics provide a single-line chain of custody throughout the full scope of the evidence management and investigation process, from evidence pickup to storage to return or disposal.
Product Failure Testing
Our team of property and product failure experts provides in-depth, reliable, and top-of-class reports based on the scientific method, and our high inspection volume allows our investigators to recognize valuable intelligence on product trends. By leveraging our extensive and specified knowledge, our customers can be certain of their decisions.
Loss Logistics
CTL’s in-house transportation service, Loss Logistics, combines fast shipping times and nationwide coverage to provide evidence collection as close to the first notice of loss as possible. Our evidence collection specialists utilize customized packaging to ensure evidence arrives at our East or West Coast facility in an unaltered condition.
Through flat shipping rates, custom packaging, in-depth evidence documentation, and the CTL’s services and solutions, Loss Logistics simplifies the shipping process for our customers and their clients from pickup to disposal.
Crash Data Retrieval
CTL experts offer retrieval and/or analysis of raw black box data on select vehicles, giving our clients the facts they need to make decisions on high-dollar auto claims. Retrieving this data is time sensitive, and a certified technician from CTL’s nationwide network will arrive onsite to promptly collect crash data. Upon request, a Professional Engineer will analyze the data collected by our certified technicians and provide a detailed report.
Joint Inspection Facilities
Each of our facilities have rooms equipped with anything multiple parties might need to conduct destructive or non-destructive testing on components or appliances. These rooms can be secured from the rest of the facility, offering a controlled environment.
We also have convenient breakout rooms for group discussions, and we can perform virtual joint inspections if it’s more convenient for other parties.
Subrogation Support
CTL simplifies your subrogation decision-making by offering a seamless experience across the full scope of the evidence management and investigation process. Our evidence preservation specialists reduce the inherent risk of spoliation by leveraging their extensive forensic engineering expertise, working quickly and efficiently, and delivering a single-line chain of custody.
Litigation Support
When you need litigation support, our Professional Engineers deliver clear and unbiased testimony. By relying on their engineering expertise, public speaking skills, and ongoing expert witness training, you can ensure that their objective findings will be presented thoroughly and professionally.
Our subject matter experts apply extensive knowledge and experience to provide independent professional opinions regarding product failure and viable alternative designs in a legal setting.
The Benefits of Working with CTL
Full-Service Evidence Management Solution
- Evidence pickup and transportation
- Product failure analysis
- Evidence storage
- Evidence return or disposal
- Crash data retrieval analysis
Professional Engineers
- Each of our Professional Engineers perform product failure testing for their specializations, ensuring that each assignment is investigated by the most experienced professional.
- Many of our Professional Engineers have attained further certifications and credentials appropriate for their specializations.
State-of-the-Art Facilities and Testing
- Our team conducts several thousand forensic investigations annually, resulting in a thorough understanding of failure modes that allows us to identify trends early and accurately.
- Our facilities are custom-built to test a variety of appliances and components.
- Our experts apply the scientific method and follow accepted forensic engineering practices during every inspection.
- They conduct product failure testing using state-of-the-art equipment, like advanced x-ray imaging, a scanning electron microscope, and more to reach answers grounded in evidence.
In-House Evidence Transportation with Nationwide Coverage
- Through our Loss Logistics team, we’ve enhanced the process from pickup to return or disposal, including developing customized packaging and shipping standards that ensure evidence arrives at our facility in an unaltered condition.
- Our packaging and shipping procedures are designed to simplify the shipping process for our customers and their clients while reducing the inherent risk of spoliation.
- Loss Logistics’ nationwide footprint allows us to secure evidence throughout the contiguous United States.
Actionable Results
- Due to our combined decades of experience, technical expertise, and in-depth research, Component Testing Laboratories provides actionable results that definitively identify manufacturing defects, installation errors, or abuse when these conditions are present.
Subrogation and Litigation Support
- CTL’s Professional Engineers deliver clear, unbiased, and professional testimony when necessary and are provided ongoing training for expert witnesses.