Category: Financial/Economic, Resources for Attorneys Peer Review of Your Credit and Collection Processes: A Great Loss Prevention Idea for Professional Service Provider Firms TASA ID: 2048 The professional service provider be it, law, accounting, architecture, or engineering is constantly challenged to balance contractual terms and conditions, while providing a professional and effective deliverable within budgetary guidelines. Unfortunately, the professional service provider has to occasionally deal with a difficult or unhappy client. Read more
Category: Construction, Engineering, Resources for Attorneys Forensic Engineering - A Brief Description TASA ID: 4541 Something goes wrong and there is a perceived failure. First question, what? Second question, what is wrong? When the “something” or the “wrong” involves technical issues, a forensic engineer may be engaged to answer the question. This brief introduction addresses forensic engineering as it relates to building issues. Read more
Category: Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys An Internist's Perspective on Medical Malpractice TASA ID: 3656 Medical malpractice typically arises when there are concerns that a reasonably prudent physician with similar training would have achieved a more favorable outcome than what actually occurred. In other words, standard of care gets violated. Read more
Category: Medical & Healthcare, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts Expert Criteria TASA ID: 1128 During my depositions and testimony as an expert witness in podiatric malpractice since 1993, I have been asked the following questions that I thought may be of interest to the new attorney developing questions for an expert. Read more
Category: Articles, Automotive/Trucking, Business & Commerce, Resources for Attorneys, Resources for Experts, Transportation MAP 21: The New Transportation Law Providing Penalties for Illegal Brokering TASA ID: 2109 Here, it comes to pass that MAP 21 requires the complete and utter legal separation of the businesses trucking from brokering according to the FMCSA (49 USC 13902 [6]). Motor carriers can no longer broker as they always operated when accepting more freight than equipment to handle. Motor carriers simply “brokered” the overload to other motor carriers without a license. Read more
