Especially For Lawyers: Why So Many Wheelchair Tipovers, Part 25: Cheap, Stupid Lawyers
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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Especially for Lawyers: Why So Many Wheelchair Tipovers, Part 23: The Department of Redundancy Department
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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Especially for Lawyers – Why So Many Wheelchair Tipovers Part 22
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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Especially for Lawyers: Why So Many Wheelchair Tipovers, Part 21
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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How Lyft Owns You, Part 19 – Unlicensed Bandits
One dysfunctional consequence of the explosion of Ubers into New York City has been the emergence of private motorists serving as “taxis” or TNCs by providing service to those residents and citizens willing to travel with them.
#uberandlyftsafety #uberandlyftaccidents #bandittaxis #banditTNCs #transalt
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How Lyft Owns You, Part 18: Mode Split
The explosion of 60,000 Ubers into New York City – frankly, 60,000 more than needed given the balanced taxi fleet that they largely decimated – has serious financial impacts on the City’s budget, and the financial viability of its public transit system.
#uberandlyft #transitaccidents #busaccidents #uberandlyftsafety #uberandlyftaccidents
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Especially for Lawyers: Why So Many Wheelchair Tipovers, Part 20
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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Especially for Lawyers – Why So Many Wheelchair Tipovers, Part 19
Much can often be accomplished through the filing of injunctive relief, which terrifies defendants. Yet few attorneys are willing to make use of this tool.
#wheelchairexpert #wheelchairtipovers #wheelchairtransportation #transalt #injunctiverelief
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Uber & Lyft – Keys to Exposing Liability, Part 6
Every Lyft driver does not earn money for the company. That fact should make the public – or a savvy attorney – realize that it hardly cares much for anyone’s safety, passenger or driver.
#lyftsafety #lyftaccidents #ubersafety #uberaccidents #transalt
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Uber & Lyft – Keys to Exposing Liability, Part 5
Every Lyft driver does not operate his or her own personal cars. Many drive rental cars. And they don’t have to pay the rental fee if they provide an exhaustive number of trips. Ride with Lyft. Other than your life, or your health, what’s there to lose, right?
#lyftaccidents #uberaccidents #transportationnetworkcompanies #transalt #taxiaccidents