Archive for August, 2008

New Research Project

Liberty Mutual Research Center for Safety and Health sponsored a study in an attempt to correlate surface roughness to “dynamic friction” of ceramic tiles.  The work was published in 2001 in Applied Ergonomics, volume 32, Issue 2, pp173-184, Author Wen-Ruey Chang.  This is similar to a later publication by Li, Chang, Leamon and Chen Floor [...]

Award

The re-trial in St. Louis resulted in a very favorable 7-figure verdict.  The plaintiff’s team of attorneys did an impressive job.  They were organized, concise and focused on the issues.  The defense (a large railroad) attempted to not only cloud the issues, but attempted to disrupt the plaintiff’s case with repeated [...]