Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety HAVE NEGLIGENCE AND COVID-19 CONSPIRED TO HARM YOUR CLIENT? TASA ID: 14071 Has your client’s workplace or medical provider stepped up to the plate and provided or employed safe, adequate and fully appropriate personal protective equipment or proper safeguards to meet the unprecedented challenge of COVID-19? Has your client contracted the virus due to lack of attention to these details? Read more
Category: Articles, Education, Politics, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts Electoral College Vote Bias During The 2016 Presidential Election Updated August 31, 2020 TASA ID: 3831 The following report is a detailed study relating to the imperfections of the Electoral College. Of the five presidents who have won the presidency without receiving the most popular votes, two of them (President George W. Bush and President Trump) have been elected since 2000. For the most part, as long as the winning president received the most popular votes, the details relating to the Electoral College were given little thought. However, due to the amount of confusion and frustration concerning presidential elections since 2000, it is becoming more necessary to explain to Americans how the Electoral College actually works. Read more
Category: Articles, Product Liability, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Working With Experts The Pathology of Products Liability and Organizational Negligence TASA ID: 1648 After 50 years of work with more than 700 companies, I have amassed significant evidence that organizations exhibit the same traits as living organisms. Some are born healthy. Best case, the principals are innately focused on the health of their employees and the needs of their customers. If the win-win vision is inculcated in their culture they stay healthy through the life cycle of the business.Others are born with latent diseases. The principals are focused on revenue and market share. Business processes evolve without a master wellness program. Sooner or later the hidden disease or a pathogen enters the organization and the health of the company wains. These are the companies that are devastated when they are served with a lawsuit. The principals and the organization wear the scars of the lawsuit forever. Read more
Category: Articles, Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts Silver Lining TASA ID: 15272 Quorom, a 24-hospital system, currently faces bankruptcy in the wake of COVID19. In Washington State, 13 rural hospitals have less than 45 days of cash on hand. While some hospitals will recapitalize their debt structure to avoid Chapter 11, far more will be closing their doors permanently in the months ahead. The most at-risk will be rural hospitals, which are already operating with razor-thin margins and depend on elective surgeries to make up for their high rates of uninsured patients. With most operating rooms handling only emergent cases, the rural hospital is losing its biggest source of revenue. Federal funds may offer some relief, but it is impossible to save the many hospitals that are at risk, especially considering that 30 hospitals already went bankrupt last year pre-COVID. Read more
Category: Articles, Accident Analysis / Reconstruction, Construction, Premises Liability, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Working With Experts Accident Investigations – Hiring the Right Expert at the Right Time TASA ID: 16816 Investigating any accident is typically a complex endeavor in which there are numerous intrinsic processes and interrelated elements that have usually led to the accident. Therefore, it is important that the expert investigating the accident has the training and experience to deal with that specific type of accident relating to your case. Often, I see law firms reaching out for experts who have acronyms after their name (assumed to ensure credibility) but they do not possess the necessary background, experience or training related to the specific accident being investigated. Not all accidents are the same... construction, property or slip, trip and fall are all quite different. The investigator has to have the experience with that accident type to be able to identify and analyze the individual elements that were or were not in place. The investigator then must be able to piece the elements together to understand their relation to the “whole” of the accident to determine the root causes and liabilities associated with the accident. Read more
