Ms. Diana D Price
Los Angeles, CA 90008
Office: 310-650-5505
Travel and Tourism Experience and Qualifications
Diana Price is President and CEO of Diana Price and Associates, forensic travel consulting and litigation support firm. Diana serves as a forensic travel expert witness, travel investigator, travel litigation consultant and expert travel consultant in cases involving international and domestic tourism and travel agency operations.
Diana D. Price has testified or consulted on a variety of issues including, but not limited to travel and tourism matters, travel agent fiduciary relationship and duty of care to client, travel agent rights and obligations, duty of care, tour operator and tour guide duty to travelers, bus tour operator standards of care, travel injury, travel accident, wrongful death, analysis of travel fees, hotel and airline ticket purchase, and traveler safety concerns. Because of Diana’s 30+ year travel background, including depositions and testimony on behalf of law firms, her assistance has been invaluable in helping attorneys resolve travel related disputes.
Diana Price is past president of the Greater Los Angeles Chapter of the Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA) and former National Vice President of Education and Programs for FEWA. An expert in tourism and travel agency operations, Ms. Price has developed a reputation as a problem solver. As a senior leader at Automobile Club of Southern California, Ms. Price led 14 international retail travel agencies. She has worked as a front line travel advisor and wholesale tour operator, and understands travel advisor’s responsibility for their work product, as it relates to travel industry standards.
Types of Travel and Tourism Cases Ms. Diana Price has been involved in:
- Slip and fall
- Personal injury
- Wrongful death
- Lodging
- Sightseeing
- Jurisdiction of airline ticket purchase
- Fee disclosures
- Sexual assault of tourist on resort property
- Duty to discover and disclose
- Fiduciary responsibility
- Tour guide duty of care
- Travel advisor duty of care
- Tour operator duty of care
- International travel budget for divorce case for select global destinations
- Travel Alerts
- Adventure Travel Experiences
Our case work and services reach clients nationwide
- Airports/Airlines
- Bus & Truck Safety/Accident
- Car & Truck Rental
- Cruise Lines
- Tourism & Travel Industry
- Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:
- A: • U.S.C. MA, Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism
• California State University Los Angeles, BA Marketing, Business Administration
• Cecil Murray Institute Graduate Financial Literacy - Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
- A: • Forensic Expert Witness Association, Greater Los Angeles, Past Board President
• American Society of Travel Agents, Member
• SEAK, continuing education for Expert Witnesses, Member
- Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
- A: No
- Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
- A: 11
- Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
- A: Travel and Tourism
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
- A: approximately 50%
- Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
- A: approximately 50%
- Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
- A: 11
- Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
- A: September 2021
- Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
- A: 6
- Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
- A: 5
- Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
- A: 14
- Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
- A: Forensic Consultanting
Pre-Litigation Analysis
Depositions
Testimony
Expert Report
- Q: What is your hourly rate to consult with an attorney?
- A: $695
- Q: What is your hourly rate to review documents?
- A: $695
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide deposition testimony?
- A: $695
- Q: What is your hourly rate to provide testimony at trial?
- A: $695
- Q: Please list any fees other than those stated above (E.g.: travel expenses, copy fees, etc.)
- A: Expert Fees and Expenses:
My fees will be charged on an hourly basis for all time expended at the rate of $695 and for travel time. Deposition and Trial testimony appearances are billed at $695 per hour, plus any associated travel expenses. I also bill for out-of-pocket expenses, such as secretarial, reprographics, messenger fees, travel, mileage, etc. Travel days are billed at $695/hour while in transit.
Hotel and airline arrangements will be booked by Diana Price and Associates personally. Invoices for these expenses will be paid in advance. You agree to reimburse me for travel expenses. Travel by Car – 65.5 cents per mile; Air, Train or Metro – Actual cost of the roundtrip ticket plus any fees; Hotel Accommodations - the cost of lodging and meals; Car Rental – a mid-size car plus any associated expenses. Refundable tickets will be purchased unless they are not available. If you ask that I purchase non-refundable tickets or if refundable tickets are not available, you shall reimburse me the cost of the non-refundable ticket..
Providing my CV and Fee Schedule Agreement does not give you permission to use my name in any manner connected to any case, unless my retainer agreement is signed and my retainer fee is paid.
Attorney Todd Weglarz, Esq.
Fieger, Fieger, Kenney & Harrington, PC
19390 West Ten Mile Road
Southfield Michigan 48075
248-365-2877
t.weglarz@fiegerlaw.com