Expert witness – slip and fall
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There’s a myth that tile manufacturers (especially manufacturers that sell tiny tiles) want you to believe, but it’s just a myth. There’s no science or proof behind the statement that more grout lines makes a floor safer. More grout lines doesn’t actually add any slip resistance to a floor with tiny slippery tiles on it,…
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Slip and fall expert witnesses in the United States frequently rely on either the English XL Variable Incidence Tribometer (VIT) or the Brungraber Slip-Test Mark IIIB. What is troubling is that neither instrument currently has a published, peer-reviewed ASTM test method in force in any country, and both trace back to ASTM standards (F1677 and…
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Too often litigation is influenced by testimony from an “expert witness” who is “crooked as a hound dog’s hind leg.” More than a century and a half ago, English judges started complaining about the lack of independence and objectivity when hearing expert evidence. That lament was aptly illustrated in the case of Lord Arbinger v…
