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You're considering the case of a maintenance worker
injured while repairing an elevator, or an elderly woman hurt
on a department store escalator while doing some weekend shopping
with her grandchildren. An initial search of the literature has
turned up almost nothing useful. Your instinct tells you the
cases are good, but to evaluate them properly, you need this
latest addition our litigation series.
The key questions are: what caused the accident, and what were
the contributory factors? Some accidents have an element of "in
the wrong place at the wrong time" about them, while others
have an element of disregard for the equipment involved. Sadly,
others fall into the category of sheer negligence or incompetence.
This book will help you determine the difference.
The authors have had the unpleasant task of investigating numerous
elevator and escalator accidents. Their expertise will guide
you as you make your decision to take or reject the cases, and
their experience will give you the basic understanding of the
issues you need to understand to proceed with confidence.
TOPICS INCLUDE
• Codes, regulations and related subjects--for the U.S., with consideration
of Canada and the U.K.
• Accident statistics and selected incidents
• The elements of typical elevator accidents
• The elements of typical escalator accidents
• Reviewing and understanding maintenance documents
• Presuit investigation: should a suit be instituted?
• Legal theories and negligence
• A glossary and a sample expert report
• Pleadings--excerpt of a typical complaint
• Discovery--sample interrogatories, request for production of documents
and corporate designee notices
• Expert opinion: the applicability of Daubert, Khumo and Frye
Click Here for Table of Contents
About the Authors:
James Filippone, P.E., -is a mechanical engineer
who started his career in the design and construction of nuclear
power plants. Three Mile Island subtly convinced Jim that a change
in industries was in order. He joined the Port Authority of New
York and New Jersey several years later, and started his elevator
and escalator career.
He became deeply involved with inspections,
maintenance evaluations, testing, accident investigations, code
compliance, and development and review of specifications and
contracts. This has included jurisdiction over approximately
650 elevators, 400 escalators, and numerous cranes, conveyors
and hoists. It is reported that this represents the second largest
grouping of escalators for one owner in the U.S. and one of the
largest for elevators
Joel D. Feldman, Esq. - is an
attorney who received his J.D. in 1981 from Villanova University
School of Law. He is a shareholder and managing partner of the
Philadelphia law firm of Anapol, Schwartz, Cohan, Feldman and
Smalley, P.C. He has served as an associate editor of the Philadelphia
County Reporter, which publishes trial court opinions in Philadelphia.
He is admitted to the Bar in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and
is an active member of the Philadelphia and American Trial Lawyers’ Associations.
David A. Cooper - has been in the lift and escalator industry
since he left school in 1980. His initial training was as an
apprenticeship with British Railways working on lifts, escalators,
cranes and façade access equipment. He is currently the
managing director of LECS (UK) Ltd, a practice of consulting
engineers specialising in lifts, escalators and vertical transportation
systems. Before this he was a district engineer surveyor with
British Engine Insurance and wrote and presented their technical
training manuals and courses on lifts and escalators as well
as being responsible for statutory examinations of lifts, escalators
and lifting equipment in the West End of London. From 1985–88
he worked for Kone Lifts as a service engineer based in the Sussex,
Kent and Surrey area. During this time he was promoted to staff
engineer and area safety manager based at Gatwick Airport.
Ronald D. Schloss - executive director, SEEC, LLC,
is an elevator consultant and electrical engineer with a life-long
dedication to the vertical transportation industry. All of his
forty-plus working years, except for military obligations, have
been in the elevator industry. This is ironic because his first
seventeen years were isolated in a small southern Illinois coal-mining
town. The area was devoid of elevators and escalators, except
for those elevators that carried the miners several hundred feet
below the surface and down into the tunneled world of coal mining.
His father, Moxie “Max” Schloss first introduced
him to elevators. After a career as a professional boxer, bouncer
and bartender Max worked the remaining years in elevator maintenance
and eventually got Ron into the International Union of Elevator
Constructors (IUEC). Ron was an installer for Otis, and a maintenance
technician, engineer and manager for Westing-house Electric Corporation,
which later became Schindler Elevator Corporation. Ron left the
corporate world in 1996 and founded SEEC, LLC.
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Elevator
and Escalator Accident Reconstruction and Litigation,
Second Edition
Table of Contents
Dedications iii
Photographs and Illustrations vii
Preface xi
Chapter 1
Codes, Regulations and Related Issues 1
Chapter 2
Description of the Equipment and Illustrations 37
Chapter 3
Accident Statistics 119
Chapter 4
Reasons for and Causes of Accidents 137
Chapter 5
Pre-Suit Investigation 197
Chapter 6
Legal Theories and the Standard of Care 205
Chapter 7
Pleadings 215
Chapter 8
Discovery 229
Chapter 9
Expert Opinion 277
Glossary
Terms Used in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. 293
Appendix
Sample Expert Report 381
About the Authors 387
Index 39
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