Volume 2 / Edition 9 This Week; Focus On: Step On A Crack…: Slip/Trip & Fall Intake Survey The very first edition of the Beacon Bulletin provided our readers with an investigator’s witness statement checklist in the aftermath of a motor vehicle accident. This week, we focus on the primary information required in the event [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 8 This Week; Focus On: The Old Ball & Chain: NYS Inmate LookUps Currently, the US prison system is host to 2,000,000 guests. Preferably, the United States would hold the global number one position in the fields of technology, medical research or even firecracker repair technique. Unfortunately, universally, we are #1 [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 7 This Week; Focus On: One For the Road: Dram Shop Cases Historically, a person who provided alcohol to another was NOT liable to a third party who was injured as a result of excessive alcohol consumption. The prevailing view was that the drinker was solely responsible for his alcohol consumption. [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 6 This Week; Focus On: Don’t Drive Yourself Crazy: Availability of Motorist Records While we suspect the price of gasoline will keep some people off of the road, it probably won’t stop those drivers we want from heading down our streets and highways. One of the most frequent requests an investigator [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 5 This Week; Focus On: Identifying Your Subject: Free Birthdate Locates Our focus this week remains on correctly identifying a subject’s date of birth. Once in a great while, we come across a gem of a site that provides quick, easy and free information with just one click. Before investing in [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 4 This Week; Focus On: Don’t Let The Clock Run You: Investigation TurnaroundTimes Hmmm, it’s 9:30 a.m. I’m here, so is def. counsel. The witness looks fine;the court reporter is setting up his machine… Why does something not feelquite right? Oh, no! The other witness!! The stronger one. This one here [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 3 This Week; Focus On: The Numbers Game: Decoding VINs Generally, a police officer references an automobile’s VIN from the owner’s/driver’s registration. It’s an extraordinary Police Officer that actually physically checks the VIN on the car’s body. Quite often, situations have occurred wherein a wrong digit was entered on a police [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 2 This Week; Focus On: There Was An Old Woman Who Lived… – Real Property Searches Regardless of one’s opinion and experience of and with municipal bureaucracy, every so often, (perhaps a public school project gone awry), the City gets it right. This week’s Gold Merit Star for compiling and distributing [...]
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Volume 2 / Edition 1This Week; Focus On: Did You Cover All Bases? Intake Surveys Gathering information, quickly and thoroughly, after an injury or loss is the first and most important step in any accident investigation. The components of a standard sign up package should include (but are not be limited to) the following: 1. [...]
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Volume 1 / Edition 9 This Week; Focus On: It Wasn’t the Right Leg?? MedMal Research Recently, BNI was asked to research the existence of directed protocol for the use of catgut v. synthetic sutures in the case of a surgical stapler misfire in a colectomy operation gone seriously wrong. Of course, all of the [...]
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