No one can pinpoint why Diane Schuler, 36, drove the wrong way on a familiar suburban New York parkway for nearly 2 miles before slamming head-on into another vehicle, killing herself and seven others. A medical examiner is digging deeper for answers after ruling that Schuler didn’t have a heart…
An accident reconstruction expert witness and an engineering expert witness testified Thursday for the defense in Laurence Thompson’s homicide trial in Bucks County, PA. Thompson was drinking before he allegedly drove drunk and caused the death of his passenger, Mary Anne Locicero. But the defense expert witnesses say she could…
In a U.S. District Court filing on Wednesday NASCAR claims that suspended owner/driver Jeremy Mayfield has once again failed an Aegis Sciences Corp. issued drug test for methamphetamines. Since being indefinitely suspended from the sport on May 9, 2009, Mayfield and NASCAR have had a very public battle to determine…
A U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging agreed that doctors must partake in continuing medical education throughout their careers but how to fund that education and whether it should be sponsored by pharmaceutical and device companies is at issue. Medical expert witnesses expressed a wide variety of opinions at the…
Jurors in El Paso, TX, acquitted Guillermo Nieto of murder in the 1999 death of his new bride, Sheila Westphal. He had met her a year before on the Internet and was accused of burying her body in his yard. The DNA expert witness could not confirm that a bone…
In Positive Trend for Defendants in Product Liability, Nick Rees of PublicNuisanceWire.com writes: Defendants in product liability cases have seen laws and statutes change and morph as the Supreme Court and other venues have interpreted laws and created precedents. Jim Beck, of counsel at Dechert LLP in the mass torts…
Bridgeport, CT, attorney Richard Meehan Jr. describes testifying as an expert witness “no easy thing to endure.” I agreed to testify at the request of a young lawyer who I had trained some years back. The experience was enlightening. I realized how difficult it is when you, as a witness,…
In Analysis and Testing In Accident Reconstruction, accident reconstruction expert witnesses at Technology Associates explain the nature of engineering analysis: Thus, in the absence of reliable injury-data based on relevant accident records, the subject danger can be evaluated only by analysis and not by testing. Similar reasoning can be applied…
The danger of falling arises when the unsuspecting climber shifts his center of gravity, causing the ladder’s elevated rear leg, to impact the ground. This is likely to occur when the user lifts one foot while stepping from one level to the next or shifts his weight while working. When…
Seat belt and airbag expert witnesses at Technology Associates describe “whiplash”: Testing has shown that the maximum loading to a rear-ended car was amplified about two and a half times when it reached the heads of the occupants. The testing also revealed that this occurred about a fourth of a…