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In the last articles: How to Design a Product Warning and How Best to Communicate a Product Warning for The Expert Institute, I listed the major components found in most warnings. I also made several suggestions that should help improve a warning’s conspicuousness and make it more likely to gain the attention of the product’s user at the

Posted on September 2, 2014 in News & Working with Experts

A good human factors expert witness in general should have excellent credentials (e.g., academic background and degrees, publications, research projects, etc.). They should also have practical experience in the specific area of testimony (e.g., designed and tested warnings in the field), a complete working knowledge of the facts of the case and the ability to

Posted on September 16, 2014 in News & Working with Experts

During 2012, a client engineering company engaged my services as an industrial safety engineer after an accident had occurred in their factory whereby one of the machine operators had lost one finger due to contact with a high speed revolving blade on the machine that he was using to cut rolls of lead into sections. A

Posted on October 21, 2014 in News & Working with Experts

Like any other surgery, foot surgery may result in some complications either during the procedure or in the post op recovery period.  Mild complications of foot surgery may include excess bleeding, excess swelling, and mild post operative infection. More moderate injuries include loss of function, recurrence, tissue damage, and possibly amputations. The indications for foot

Posted on October 29, 2014 in News & Working with Experts

Natalie Lincoln was charged with vehicular homicide in the death of a man when the car she was driving crossed the center lane and struck the decedent’s vehicle.  At the scene of the accident, the defendant passed a field sobriety test performed by a police officer and had a negative breath test for alcohol.  First

Posted on June 4, 2016 in News & Working with Experts

Blindness is such a small incidence group that there are very few true experts on blindness.  Blindness affects only ½ of 1% of the US population. Also, persons with severe visual loss account for less than 2% of the population. The blindness expert witness brings a dimension of experience that can be invaluable to a

Posted on November 24, 2014 in News & Working with Experts

Forensic engineering projects are often litigious in which different parties seek to collect or avoid damages based upon technical allegations. Such projects will often include the production of reports by the engineering expert witness at the completion of an investigation. Such a report is typically written and likely to be distributed to the various interested

Posted on March 31, 2015 in Working with Experts

Mental health professionals, like psychologists, neuropsychologists, and psychiatrists, are often consulted in the course of capital criminal trials. It is a popular belief in our society that criminals commonly “get off,” are let out of jail, after raising a mental health defense.  In the popular view, a mental health expert comes into court, testifies that

Posted on May 27, 2015 in News

Lawyers who litigate business law disputes, securities class actions, intellectual property matters or even family law disputes can gain a great deal by engaging, early on in their matters, lawyers or legal academics with a strong background in what is known as “transactional law.” Let me explain. It’s probable that most people go to law

Posted on June 15, 2015 in Working with Experts

Many practitioners wrestle with the temptation, when they file FINRA Statements of Claim, to request a Reasoned or ‘Explained Award.’  From the standpoint of customer attorneys, a common reason they don’t request one is the fear that it will unwittingly provide ammunition for a  Petition to Vacate a favorable Award by the ‘deep pocketed’ Respondent

Posted on July 21, 2015 in Working with Experts