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Occupational safety expert witness Michelle Copeland, President of Occupational Safety Resource Inc., writes this on Exposure Assessment and Control:

Industrial hygiene monitoring is your primary tool in determining employee exposures to chemicals, noise, heat, radiation, and other workplace hazards. Accurate exposure determination enables you to ensure compliance with OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) regulations by implementing controls that are necessary, reasonable and effective.

Read more: Michelle Copeland.

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Night clubs expert witnesses may consult and testify on bars, lounges, and night clubs. With over 30 years experience in security and surveillance operations, including Security Director for the Sahara Tahoe and High Sierra resorts in Lake Tahoe as well as corporate security for Del E. Webb, Corp. in Nevada, security and surveillance consultant Alan W. Zajic writes that he does not believe a background check is the most important thing in a gaming security program. More important is how the business owner trains their employees.

Read more: https://www.jurispro.com/AlanZajicCPPCSP.

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Cancer expert Frank McCormick, PhD, FRS, spoke before the Senate Cancer Coalition saying that cancer medicine must transition to treatment targeted to individual patients and away from the usual standard treatments. McCormick is a professor at the UCSF Cancer Research Institute. His research focuses on signal transduction pathways in cancer cells and ways of treating cancer based on these pathways.

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In More effective use of experts in slip-and-fall cases – The right expert will help you to better prepare the case and win it at trial, attorney David Reinard writes:

There is a second reason (besides trial) to retain an expert. A good expert can help you prepare the case. The expert can (and should):

• Help you prepare for key defense depositions,

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In Attempting to Exclude Expert Testimony, construction site expert witness William Gulya, Jr., President & CEO, Middlesex Trenching Company, writes:

The right to conduct voir dire examination is at the discretion of the court and may be accepted or rejected. It is important to note that the voir dire examination is very limited in its range. Questioning must be only about the expert’s lack of qualifications to render a meaningful opinion to the trier(s) of fact. Following voir dire, the attorney may make a motion to disqualify the witness from testifying due to inadequate qualifications in the field in which the expert claims to be qualified.

Attorneys facing a strong expert may use one or both methods in a tactical attempt to get the expert’s testimony and/or report excluded before trial even begins. For instance, during deposition of the expert, the opposing counsel can evaluate the strength, demeanor, and charisma of the expert. Equally important, the opposing attorney will examine in detail the expert’s report. When the expert’s report is professional, organized and accurate, and includes the necessary components such as the expert’s CV, list of cases, index, list of documents received and reviewed, discovery exhibits and demonstrative evidence and forms a strong, clear and supported opinion and conclusion, the opposing counsel knows he or she is facing an uphill battle in court.

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In Gage County Courthouse, Nebraska, District Judge Paul Korslund said he may allow a medical expert witness to testify on behalf of alleged abuse victims of a former caregiver at the Beatrice State Developmental Center. Matthew Pangborn is charged with six counts of abusing a vulnerable adult and five of strangulation. The victims are so disabled that prosecutors are unsure they will be able to testify. Four other former employees have been convicted of abusing developmentally disabled men at the Beatrice State Developmental Center.

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Restaurants expert witness Howard Cannon testifies in restaurant litigation regarding management neglect, injuries, food contamination, and more. He also consults in restaurant matters and and tells owners, “To a customer, a restaurant can never be too clean. The only thing a customer notices is ‘not clean enough’. That’s right, you are either acceptable or unacceptable. If you don’t know how important cleanliness is, ask your customers.” Cannon is CEO of Restaurant Consultants of America.