Michael Haugen is a Partner in HSNO’s Phoenix office. Applied in the context of litigation support and commercial insurance claims, Mr. Haugen is a forensic accounting expert focused on delivering clear, concise and credible opinions. He has assisted legal counsel, insurance carriers and business owners in resolving over a thousand financial damages claims involving hundreds of millions of dollars in total. Mr. Haugen specializes in measuring lost profits, fraud and embezzlement investigations, lost earnings analysis and wrongful death calculations. He is practiced in commercial litigation matters including contract disputes, merger and acquisition disputes and shareholder disputes. He has assisted counsel in securities fraud and criminal law matters. Mr. Haugen has measured hundreds of business interruption, extra expense, property loss and fiduciary claims for commercial property and casualty insurance carriers across the entire country. Mr. Haugen is a member on the Accounting and Audit Committee for the Arizona State Board of Accountancy. He is a recipient of the AICPA’s standing ovation award in Forensic and Valuation Services. Mr. Haugen has had the privilege of being selected as a speaker to present continuing professional education and continuing legal education classes to variety of audiences. He presents custom in-house training for insurance carriers and has taught for the Property & Liability Resource Bureau on several occasions. Mr. Haugen has also taught for the Defense Research Institute and various law firm associations.