Product Description: To what extent can and should people participate in dealing with the personal problems they bring to consulting professionals? This book presents two alternative models for the conduct of such professional-client relationships as those between lawyers and clients and doctors and patients...read more

Product Description: 279 pages Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2nd edition (June 1978) Language: English In excellent Condition with no damage

Product Description: In this sweeping indictment of law and social policy regarding accidents, Richard Gaskins charges that the United States has seriously neglected its responsibility to protect public health, safety, and welfare against the hazards of modern industrial environments...read more

Product Description: Although personal injury law has been much criticized--by legal groups, insurers, health care providers, the business community, legislators, victims, and others--no concrete legal reforms have been enacted that would create a more equitable compensation system for accident victims of all sorts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This report evaluates the total system of compensation by examining the role of individual compensation mechanisms; investigating the experience of individual American households; and examining the ways experiences vary by accident, injury, and sociodemographic circumstances.

Product Description: The hedonic damage concept has been used to introduce testimony from economic experts on loss of the enjoyment of life in both wrongful death and personal injury litigation. It has also recently been used to introduce testimony about "loss of society" to survivors of decedents...read more

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Product Description: Injury--both violent and unintentional--is the greatest threat to public health in America today. Many, if not most, injury prevention measures involve the use of law. These laws range from federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards to state seat-belt use laws to city smoke detector ordinances...read more

Product Description: The expert life care planners, psychologists, vocational rehabilitation specialists, and economists who have contributed to this book have collectively testified in over 1,000 trials and have evaluated damages in over 4,000 personal injury cases...read more

Your ability to reconstruct or litigate a train accident can mean the difference between a successful or failed case. However, even experienced reconstructionists and attorneys are often unfamiliar with the myriad complexities of railroad operations and trains. Now, whether you are a novice or an experienced litigator, you can access a wealth of information in this ground-breaking text. In fact, much of the data and formulae are available here exclusively, saving you hours of tedious calculations and research. Now in its fourth edition, this book is one of the most comprehensive texts in the field of railroad accidents. It contains a new section on remote control locomotive operations (RCL) and remote control operators (RCO), and helps you answer the question, is the "black box" and "appurtenance" causing strict liability under the Locomotive Inspection Act? The book also has updated information on grade crossing litigation, Americans with Disabilities Act, and federal pre-emption versus federal preclusion in FELA cases (an area in which many attorneys and courts err). With a subject as demanding and complex as train accidents, this book is an important tool to have on your side. Topics Include: • remote control operations • event recorder analysis • FELA negligence claims • locomotive, railroad car, and RR track design • grade-crossing design, performance, and litigation • patron or employee slips, trips, and falls • audibility and visual issues at rail-highway grade crossings • derailments • demonstrative evidence in railroad litigation • forensic analysis of train collisions • locomotive cab safety and crashworthiness • breaking system design and performance • motor vehicle and human factors • speed, time, and distance calculations • pedestrian Accidents • Americans with Disabilities Act • third party liability issues • FELA compensation and benefits

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Product Description: Taking up where your personal file leaves off, Personal Injury Paralegal: Forms and Procedures is loaded with sample correspondence, forms, checklists, and pleadings - creating a time-saving resource that helps you work through personal injury cases in the most effective, efficient way possible...read more

Product Description: Personal injury attorneys work with a broad variety of experts in all phases of their cases. Experts help determine causation and liability, evaluate plantiff injuries, determine potential for rehabilitation, determine the future medical needs of plantiffs, calculate compensation needed by plantiffs to establish an acceptable standard of living, and much more...read more

Product Description: Originally published in 1899. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume...read more