4/2/2013· Failure Analysis
Forensic Clues: Structural Failures
Structural failures of buildings range from catastrophic building failures involving mass loss of life and/or property to structural problems such as sagging floors or ceilings, leaning walls, cracking or sinking foundations.
3/27/2013· Fires & Explosions
Fires: Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC)
By: Jeffrey Williams
Books (e.g., Spontaneous Human Combustion) and TV shows on SHC have given a couple of new meanings to the term heartburn.
3/25/2013· Warnings & Labels
When Suing a Drug Company For Failure to Warn: Avoid Generics
I just came back from my phannacy where I picked up two prescriptions for my seasonal allergies. One was a name brand product and another was a generic.
3/19/2013· Food & Beverage
Food Safety in Casino Restaurants
By: Jeff Nelken
Looking back over the years, I find it somewhat of a paradox that restaurant owners are forever telling me that they don't have to worry about the temperature of their refrigerators and freezers during the night.
3/15/2013· Damages
Proving Damages in Trademark Cases
Proving damages in trademark litigation-typically lost profits or disgorgement of the defendant's profits-generally involves citing the infringer's sales of the infringing product.
3/13/2013· Food & Beverage
By: Dr. Ewen Todd
This article is the second in a series of several by members of the Committee on the Control of Foodborne Illness of the International Association of Food Protection, and it continues the analysis of 816 outbreaks where food workers were implicated in the spread of foodborne disease.
3/5/2013· Medical - Medicine
Thrombin and thrombin peptides play a role in initiating tissue repair. The potential safety and efficacy of TP508 (Chrysalins) treatment of diabetic foot ulcers was evaluated in a 60-subject, prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebocontrolled phase I/II clinical trial.
2/28/2013· Accident Prevention & Safety
Golf cart accident frequency has increased dramatically over the last 20 years. A study by Watson, Mehan, Smith, and McKenzie (Golf Cart-Related Injuries in the U.S., American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 2008) of NEISS data found 147,696 people were treated in emergency rooms for golf cart accidents between 1990 and 2006.
2/27/2013· Banking
Strategic Risk: What the Board of Directors Should Know About It and What They Should Do About It
Strategic risk is currently a focus of regulatory scrutiny and the board of directors should understand what it is and how to manage it. Strategic risk is the risk to a bank's earnings and capital from making poor business decisions, from not implementing business decisions properly, or from failing to respond to industry changes.
2/27/2013· Audio Forensics
Family Law Audio Evidence: Altered Without Editing?
By: David Smith
A party in a divorce case hired me after his attorney told him that his wife's council was planning to introduce audio recordings during an upcoming custody hearing.
