Kathy Kusner

Kathy Kusner is a horse expert providing horse information and education for use by attorneys, judges and juries during legal procedures, from discovery through settlement or trial. Expert knowledge of standards of the industry including, "but not limited to", horse behavior and safety procedures; stable management (for rental, lesson, and boarding stables); accident analysis and reconstruction; degrees of negligence and its prevention; all levels of riding, training and instruction; and the appropriateness of specific horses and equipment, including specific buying and selling standards.

Services

Kathy Kusner is a horse expert witness providing the following services:

• Accident Reconstruction and Prevention
• Industry Standards
• Horse Behavior
• Safety Procedures
• All Levels of Riding, Teaching, Training, and Competing
• Racing
• Buying and Selling Standards
• Stable Management
• Rental Stables and Pleasure Horses
• Specific Horse and Equipment Analysis

Litigation Support Services

Kathy Kusner has worked as an expert witness concerning horse-related issues since 1983.

Areas of Expertise

• Accident
• Accident Analysis
• Accident Investigation
• Accident Prevention
• Accident Reconstruction
• Claims
• Damages
• Equine
• Fraud
• Horse Behavior

• Horse Equipment
• Horse Training
• Horses
• Horses Rental
• Investigation
• Legal Malpractice
• Litigation
• Mediation
• Personal Injury
• Premises Liability

• Products Liability
• Professional Malpractice
• Professional Responsibility
• Recreation
• Recreation Safety
• Research
• Safety
• Safety Management
• Stable Management
• Valuation

Additional Expertise:

Equestrian

Profile

Kathy Kusner was named Horsewoman of the Year by the American Horse Shows Association before joining the United States Equestrian Team at the age of 21. Representing the United States, she rode in three Olympic Games Tokyo in 1964, Mexico City in 1968, and Munich in 1972 (silver medal). She was also a member of the United States team in two Pan American Games Sao Paulo in 1963 (gold medal) and Winnipeg in 1967 (silver medal).

In addition to riding for the United States in countless international competitions, she was a consistent winner and leading rider at major national and international horse shows, and on two occasions was the leading international rider at Madison Square Garden. Kathy's many wins include the Grand Prix of Dublin, in Ireland (twice); the French Championship, in La Baule, France; the Pre-Olympic Grand Prix of Rotterdam, in The Netherlands; the Puissance, in Aachen, Germany (twice); the Grand Prix of Hickstead, in England; the Grand Prix of Wiesbaden, in Germany; the Grand Prix of Wulfrath, also in Germany; the Grand Prix of Ostend, in Belgium; and the Grand Prix of Lucerne, in Switzerland.

Kathy represented the United States from 1961 through 1976.

Kathy mounted a successful legal case in 1968 to become the first licensed female jockey in the United States. Since the age of 16, she had been regularly winning unrecognized flat and timber races. As a licensed jockey, she rode races up and down the eastern seaboard and Canada and became the first licensed female jockey to ride races in Mexico, Germany, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Panama, South Africa, and what was then Rhodesia. When she rode a hurdle race at Saratoga, she became the first woman to ride a steeplechase at the race track in modern times. She was also the first woman to ride in the Maryland Hunt Cup, the toughest timber race in the world.

Consulting Practice

All States and International

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