In Voir Dire Of Scientific Opinion At Trial: Attacking The Expert Witness, Before He’s Declared An Expert, attorney Anthony Colleluori writes on what he calls “the lack of attack on prosecution experts” in criminal trials that involve IME expert witnesses and police personnel. I. Preparing the attack. A. Frye or…
the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco is deciding whether millions of women who work at Wal-Mart or are former employees can join a class action sex-discrimination lawsuit against the chain. Plaintiff’s attorney Brad Seligman says that discrimination was “a system-wide process” at Wal-Mart’s 3,400 stores and that…
In Voir Dire Of Scientific Opinion At Trial: Attacking The Expert Witness, Before He’s Declared An Expert., attorney Anthony Colleluori writes on what he calls “the lack of attack on prosecution experts” in criminal trials that involve IME expert witnesses and police personnel. Expert witnesses in criminal trials are often…
The Coalition for Affordable Health Care was in Pittsfield, MA, Friday to talk to the public and business owners about their coverage. Health New England President & CEO Peter Straley told them that a lot needs to change and the best way to get coverage costs under control is to…
Pulmonary medicine expert witness Kathleen S. Adams, RCP, RRT-NPS, is an instructor and owner of Packmule Education & Consulting Services in Southern California. Also the president-elect of the California Society for Respiratory Care, here she writes on difficult airways. Difficulty or inability to perform adequate bag-mask ventilation can be predictable…
In Clinical Standards in Medicine medical expert witness Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEM, writes: Although this clinical policy standardizes the approach to evaluating chest pain, the researchers responsible for its development emphasized its limitations stating that the reality of medical practice is that the physician is often gathering data,…
Pulmonary medicine expert witness Kathleen S. Adams, RCP, RRT-NPS, is an instructor and owner of Packmule Education & Consulting Services in Southern California. Also the president-elect of the California Society for Respiratory Care, here she writes on difficult airways. What constitutes a difficult airway? It is important to have an…
In Clinical Standards in Medicine medical expert witness Barry E. Gustin, MD, MPH, FAAEM, writes: For each of these rules, there are corresponding guidelines which may or may not be appropriate to act on. For example, under character of pain, it may or may not be useful to ask about…
Leading brain injury expert Dr. Neil Martin of UCLA Medical Center says that even falling from a standing position is “a six-foot fall as far as your head is concerned” and that relatively minor accidents can prove fatal. The first three hours following the onset of a critical health episode…
Texas SB 362 which deals with voter identification has cleared the Texas Senate and will be sent to the Texas House. SB 362 will create a more secure election process and strive to ensure elderly and low income Texans who are eligible to vote are able to do so with…