1. EMPLOYEE SAFETY CASES WHERE
EXPERT WITNESSES PROVIDE
TESTIMONY
Joel Feigenheimer

2. INTRODUCTION
Since founding RealEats.org in 2009, Dr. Joel Feigenheimer has grown
it to a popular sustainable foods website featuring hundreds of
certified third party vendors serving restaurants and food service
companies. A veteran of the hospitality industry, Dr. Joel
Feigenheimer is a consultant, speaker at various industry events, and
expert witness in the hospitality business. Through Expert Restaurant
Witnesses, another one of his companies, he serves as an expert
witness on cases centering on vendor disputes and employee safety.

3. Expert witnesses in employee safety cases provide courts with
expert guidance on a wide range of related issues including sexual
harassment, where a person is charged with making inappropriate
sexual remarks or unwelcome sexual advances in restaurants, and
wage/benefit disputes, where employees have a dispute with their
employers regarding wages, bonuses, or benefits. Other issues in
which expert witnesses provide testimony include slip and fall
cases where an employee falls and injures himself or herself as a
result of a workplace hazard, and workers’ compensation, where
an employer and employee differ on wage replacement and medical
benefits following a workplace injury.