The single most foolish mistake I encounter regularly is the unwillingness of an attorney to let me identify the evidence and fully examine it. Nowhere is this error more costly than in a case involving wheelchair securement.
#wheelchairtipovers #wheelchairandpassengersecurement #transalt #publictransitexpert
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In different forms, the three basic modes of demand-responsive transportation – special needs schoolbus service, NEMT service and complementary paratransit service all suffer from a profound ignorance about efficiency and on-time performance, and these in turns translate into safety compromises – the most time savings of which is not securing wheelchairs.
#safetycompromises #wheelchairtipovers #wheelchairandpassengersecurement #transalt #publictransitexpert
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Many attorneys fail to file against the parties most responsible for the incident because suing only the most obvious codefendant it the easiest path to take.
#wheelchairtipovers #wheelchairandpassengersecurement #seatbeltsandsecurement #transalt #publictransitexpert
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One of the most interesting, but obscure reasons why drivers do not secure wheelchairs, is that it hurts to crawl around on a vehicle’s flooring on their knees.
#wheelchairtipovers #wheelchairandpassengersecurement #seatbeltsecurement #transalt #publictransitexpert
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Few public transportation agencies know how to craft a Request for Proposal that will yield the best bidder – just like few of these agencies know how to evaluate bids. That so many wheelchairs tip over is a consequence of this failure – among countless other reasons.
#publictransitexpert #wheelchairtipovers #wheelchairandpassengersecurement #transalt #publictransportationproposals
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With an unlosable case, a certain large settlement coming your way, and costs for your
experts coming out of your client’s share, why would you care what planet your expert lives
on when he or she needs to examine the vehicle?
#wheelchairandpassengersecurement #wheelchairtipovers #transportationexpertwitness
#busexpertwitness #busaccidents
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The scientific principles for securing wheelchairs at all four points were published in 1687 – 339 years ago. Nothing else is needed to prove that securement a wheelchair at all four points, and its occupant into the chair, are the industry standard.
#wheelchairandpassengersecurement #wheelchairtipovers #transalt #transitindustrystandardsofcare #transportationindustrystandardofcare
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There is no entity to keep track of wheelchair tipovers. And the odds of obtaining relief from our legal system is hampered by one set of odds after another – ranging from the plaintiff not getting hurt badly to his or her attorney doing a poor job on the case. Because of all these things, it is not an exaggeration to think that only one out of every several hundred wheelchair cases ends up with a victory for the plaintiff (or his or her estate), and why there could easily be 10,000 tipovers a day.
#wheelchairtipover #wheelchairandpassengersecurement #wheelchairtransportation #transalt #wheelchairsecurement
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An expert should always be allowed to examine the vehicle in a wheelchair tipover case. The case has much more value if the equipment were faulty, broken or non-ADA-compliant than were it in pristine condition yet the driver simply did not use it.
#wheelchairtransportation #wheelchairipovers #wheelchairandpassengersecurement #transalt #wheelchairexpertwitness
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Insipid payment formulas are largely responsible for the number of wheelchair tipovers in certain sectors of public transportation – particularly in the non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) service sector.
#nemtservice #nonsmergencymedicaltransportation #transalt #wheelchairtipover #wheelchairtransportation
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