Health insurance premiums next year are going up as much as 30 percent, even if the proposed federal pay freeze goes through. How do you pay for 2011 health costs on a 2010 salary? Health insurance expert Walton Francis says you can save $1,000 to $2,000 next year by picking…
Managed care expert witnesses may opine on liability insurance, HMOs, and related issues. The Physicians Insurers Association Research Department reviews data, issues, and policies concerning the medical professional liability insurance industry to produce helpful resources. Semi-annually, the PIAA analyzes data captured by the PIAA Data Sharing Project to develop a…
Insurance regulation expert witnesses may write reports and opine on insurance claims, insurance business customs and practices, and related topics. Here, the American Insurance Association defines SAP: Statutory Accounting Principle (SAP): Those principles required by state insurance laws followed by an insurance company when submitting its financial statements to the…
Insurance practices expert witnesses may write reports and opine on insurance claims, insurance coverage, casualty insurance, and related topics. Here, the American Insurance Association defines casualty insurance: Insurance primarily concerned with the legal liability for losses caused by injury to persons or damage to property of others. Also includes, among…
Was an oral surgeon at fault for the massive stroke his patient suffered after an 8-tooth extraction under local anesthesia at Philadelphia Veterans’ Administration Medical Center in September 2007? A federal court will take up that question now that a judge has dismissed the U.S. government’s motions to exclude the…
A jury may decide who caused a serious injury crash on Deerfield Road last year after an accident reconstruction expert witness claimed a Lenawee County, MI, Sheriff’s Department investigation got it backwards. A lawsuit over the crash that left 82-year-old Elmer Johnson near death was moved toward trial this week…
In How we created an almost paperless real estate expert office, real estate expert witness Merrie Turner Lightner writes: In truth, the “paperless office” was just another dot.com fantasy. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t cut down on our paper use, and there’s never been a better time to Green…
Collision analysis expert witness A. Zhukov, Ph.D., describes what type of stored data may be retrieved in a “black box” using Vetronix Crash Data Retrieval Tool (CDR Tool). The CDR Tool is capable of harvesting information from vehicle’s SDM and RCM. The device records data on a laptop PC which…
In Chest Pain & Medical Malpractice, medical malpractice expert witness Barry Gustin, M.D. writes: As you can see, the evaluation of chest pain is often highly subjective and imperfect. The differential diagnosis of chest pain alone (approximately 20 common and 15 not so common entities) is enough to dazzle and…
Construction Accident Reconstruction, 2d edition, by Calvin Zemsky, P.E., and Jon R. Abele Esq, contains data and statistics about fatal and non-fatal construction accidents, OSHA Rules and Regulations, Life/Safety Codes and discussions of many construction accident investigations. Litigation relating to construction site accidents appear on the court dockets of every…