Category: Employment, Medical & Healthcare, Psychology/Psychiatry Assessing Neuro-Cognitive Complaints after Brain Injury: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction in Civil and Criminal Litigation TASA ID: 2434 Plaintiffs and other petitioners often sue for damages due to reported cognitive or emotional impairment. These cognitive impairments are often said to be the result of traumatic brain injury suffered in accidents, toxic exposures or medical procedures. Emotional impairments take the form of alleged depression or "traumatic" anxiety following such events, or those involving employment, business or similar affairs. Read more
Category: Employment, Security Security Guard Contracts TASA ID: 2483 Before September 11, 2001, "security" consisted of three parts: it was a business function, an industry, an academic discipline. The terrorist attacks on that date added a fourth: Homeland Security. Each segment is different, but the one generating the most interest from a legal viewpoint is security as a business function. This is where security's goal is to prevent losses to the greatest extent possible and minimize the cost of those that are inevitable. Read more
Category: Employment, Lost Wages, Personal Injury Use of Vocational Experts in Disability Determination TASA ID: 540 No longer is it permissible to determine disability solely based on the percentage of impairment as dictated by the AMA Guides. Ideally, the physical and psychological limitations that are imposed by an accident and/or disease must now be translated into the loss of specific vocational opportunity Read more
Category: Aviation, Business & Commerce, Employment How to Value Airline Pilot Careers: The $8 Million Dollar Man has Wings! TASA ID: 616 Airline pilot careers are much more valuable than many attorneys, spouses, and even the pilots themselves often realize. Even after all of the well-publicized pay reductions and retirement plan failures at our established legacy passenger airlines, these careers are still providing high career values. Read more
Category: Crime Investigation, Employment Interrogation Safeguards TASA ID: 2483 An article entitled, “WHEN EMPLOYEES CONFESS, SOMETIMES FALSELY” appeared in the business section of the March 9, 2014, edition of The New York Times. It discussed the interrogation of employees suspected of misconduct, mainly theft, by private persons acting in an employer's behalf, pointing out that confessions, when obtained, are not always true or necessarily accurate. Rather, they result from what might best be described as questionable interrogation techniques. The article did not discuss legal action that might be taken by an employee subjected to an interrogation, whose reputation is sullied thereby, against his or her employer. Read more
