5/17/2021· Construction
Analysis Of Concurrent Delay On Construction Claims
Concurrent delay is a vexed and complex technical and legal issue. Construction contracts often do not expressly provide direction as to the parties’ agreement when there is concurrent delay. Most simply require the contractor to provide notice and specifics when an owner-responsible delay event occurs.
5/17/2021· Child Welfare
Parental Alienation: Child Abuse? --- Reportable?
Those of us who have been working within the field of Parental Alienation recognize that Parental Alienation is in fact a form of abuse. So, doesn’t it logically follow if the professional field recognizes Parental Alienation as child abuse then, by definition, it should be reportable to child protection and law enforcement organizations?
5/6/2021· Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Technology Assessment: City Finds Opportunities For System Integration And Modernization
The city had been using a decades-old ERP solution and had not evaluated their business processes at any point during that time. Not only was the current ERP system not the best fit for their municipality, but the city was spending an inordinate amount of money on maintenance costs for customization and did not take advantage of instituting best practices or current technology.
5/3/2021· Intellectual Property
One-Stop-Shopping With Segmented Offerings Is Most Appealing For SEP Licensing In IoT Including 5G
By: Keith Mallinson
Patent pooling is increasingly attractive for licensing cellular technologies with emerging IoT including 5G because it can provide greater transparency, predictability, and various efficiencies such as lower transaction costs at scale in standard-essential patent (SEP) licensing with multiple dimensions and complexities including
4/21/2021· Aerosols - Aerosol Products
Aerosol Laboratory Safety – Eliminate Potential Ignition Sources
By: John Chadwick
While the attention to safety issues has dramatically improved over time, I am still amazed how often the simplest safety precautions are sometimes overlooked when filling aerosols sample with flammable propellants. I’ll save my horror stories for another article, except for one particularly relevant example.
4/20/2021· Insurance Coverage Analysis
The Dangers Of Absolute Exclusions, And Why Are Regulators Allowing Them?
The basis for many of the “absolute” exclusions is that the excluded exposure is supposed to be covered under other policies or not at all as to the insured’s conduct. In other words, if you have an E&O policy, insureds should not look to the policy to cover them for typical directors and officers exposures, employment practices liability exposures, or even technology exposures
4/19/2021· Damages
Economic Damages From ERISA Portfolio Mismanagement
The fund managers were alleged to have violated their fiduciary duty to maintain proper diversification in the fund by allowing one particular security to make up more than 25% of fund value and up to over 40% of fund value by mid-2015.
4/12/2021· Failure Analysis
Glass Failure Analysis: Glass Oven Dish Failure
By: Dr. Thomas Read
The annealed borosilicate glass pie plate failed as a result of “thermal shock”. There were multiple origins for the failure, and these all initiated at damage sites on the bottom of the Pyrex baking dish. It appears that the bottom of the pie plate was convex. Thus, setting the dish down and moving it on hard (abrasive) surfaces such as tile or granite counters created bottom “rim” damage.
4/12/2021· Transportation
Defending Public Transportation Contractors, Part 1: Lead Agencies and Brokers
By: Ned Einstein
For decades, motorcoach providers have provided commuter-express service, under contract, to transit agencies (and, occasionally, to municipalities, counties or regions which do not have formal transit agencies). Particularly in the past 20 years, this role has expanded:
4/7/2021· Expert Witnessing
Retaining The Expert Witness: Begin With The End In Mind
By: Beth Mohr, CFE, CAMS, CCCI
This article will discuss the forensic accounting expert, but these same strategies apply to other types of expert witnesses in a variety of fields, including medical experts, psychologists, accident reconstruction experts, engineers and other forensic experts. The consulting expert is a member of the legal team whose job it is to support the advocacy of the attorney.
