Product Description: Mold law and litigation is a complex new area and often requires numerous professional disciplines to address it. Detailed information is often difficult to fine and this book is designed to provide you with that information. It provides you with critical background information to put the "mold issue" in context, including information on exposure, illness, allergic reactions, types of claims filed in mold litigation, and insurance issues...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

Product Description: Lawyers, Litigants and Whores is a must-read for anyone who is - or fears they may be - a defendant in a personal injury or medical malpractice lawsuit. This book describes in detail Plaintiffs who exaggerate - or unashamedly face -- their injuries...read more

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Intended as a resource guide in the field of litigation of psychological injury. Offers various perspectives on issues involving diagnosis, determination of causality, prognosis, evaluation of impairment, disability, and loss-of-earnings capacity associated with psychological injuries. Litigation strategies from both the defense and the plaintiff's perspective are highlighted.

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Product Description: Based on extensive research as well as the experience of lawyers and trial consultants across the country, David Ball on Damages: A Plaintiff’s Attorney’s Guide for Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases supplies step-by-step practical guidance for attorneys seeking money for their clients...read more

Product Description: Creighton School of Medicine, Omaha, NB. A reference atlas on anatomy for attorneys involved in personal injury litigation. Covers general anatomy as well as each of the body's systems in detail. Includes detailed color and halftone illustrations, as well as diagrams and other explanatory material...read more

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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

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: 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

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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

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 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