Category: Articles, Life Care Plan, Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys Standard of Care vs. Technical Deficiency TASA ID: 864 When working for the defense as an expert witness, I have developed a strategy for dealing with wrongful death and personal injury issues. Most of my work relates to matters involving health and human service programs. In these cases, Standard of Care and the organization's operational flaws usually play a significant role. Read more
Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Communications, Employment, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts REPUTATION DAMAGE EMANATES FROM ACTIONS AS WELL AS WORDS “It takes years to build a reputation but only minutes to have it destroyed.” TASA ID: 2156 For someone who has served as an expert witness in approximately three dozen defamation cases, there is little question that negative communications disseminated in writing (libel) or verbally (slander) or both can be devastating to the image, reputation and/or good will of an individual, business, institution, public sector entity, or any other type of recipient targeted. Defamation is normally defined as a false statement, published to a third party, that is damaging and is meant to harm and results from negligence, reckless disregard for the truth or malice. Read more
Category: Articles, Business & Commerce, Communications, Employment, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts What Covid-19 Has Taught Us About Leading Through a Crisis TASA ID: 1056 Leading always has challenges! However, we have never had to lead through a crisis like Covid-19. The past three months have brought challenges like no other. During a time of crisis, leaders are required to lead and manage effectively. Managing the urgent needs of the present and taking decisive actions. Strong leaders guide people to the best possible eventual outcomes, which demand seeing beyond the present in order to anticipate obstacles ahead. Read more
Category: Articles, Chemicals / Toxic Substances, Construction, Environment, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Safety OIL & GAS PIPELINE ACCIDENTS: Failure Mechanisms in Non-Technical Language TASA ID: 18867 Oil and gas pipeline construction in the U.S. has grown steadily over the years at a rate of approximately 10,000 miles per year. As of 2019, more than 2.6 million miles of natural gas and 219,000 miles of hazardous liquid pipelines were operating in the United States.The U.S. Department of Transportation’s PHMSA agency began tracking serious accidents in 2000. The latest failure rates reported by PHMSA show 0.01 failures per 1000 miles for hazardous liquid pipelines, 11 failures per 1,000,000 miles for gas distribution pipelines, and 0.008 failures per 1000 miles of gas transmission pipelines. Despite such low probabilities of failure, accidents do occur often making news due to the spectacular way they fail and the likelihood of deaths and injuries. Read more
Category: Articles, Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts Failure of Medicine for Centuries: From Flawed Science to Money Science TASA ID: 1793 A study published in 2000 concluded that at least 44,000 and perhaps as many as 98,000 lives were lost each year from preventable medical errors [1]. This startling number was disputed [2] and the debasing was revolved around preventability [3, 4]. A study published in 2003 reported a lower limit of 210,000 deaths per year associated with preventable harm in hospitals [5]. My studies have shown the actual deaths that could be attributed to medicine are about 30 million each year in the world because medicine has systematic errors in its foundation. Read more