Like all endeavors medical, legal or technical we are finding it necessary to specialize in an area to have a stab at absorbing all there is to know. Building the combination of experience, training and formal educational pursuits takes time to amass. Civil investigations are used to provide evidence and expertise to build or defend a case. Not all such situations can be done by one investigator.
Examples of Civil Investigation Cases
Civil investigations cover the following areas of specialization and expertise:
• Product Liability Investigations are used where there has been an injury or death by a faulty or badly designed product. Knowledge of the law, but also some mechanical and chemical background allows the product liability investigator to collect the relevant evidence and information for either the plaintiff or defendant.
• Wrongful Death are investigations where a fatal injury is caused by negligence or the discovery of mitigating factors for the defense. Wrongful death occurs when someone dies as the result of direct or incidental negligence, criminal activity, plotting or wrongful doing of another person or legal entity. In can be civil or criminal in nature. The nature of wrong death investigations is the definition of wrongful death is subject to broad interpretation. The initial investigation may have been initiated by the investigation of an insurance claim, workplace accident, personal injury and car accident investigation, and the conclusion of wrongful death is reached during the investigation of these other matters.
• Medical Malpractice Investigations help to prove medical error and iatrogenic investigations. Iatrogenic occurs when a patient becomes the victim of injurious medical error. Not only does the investigator need to have medical knowledge but must be versed in the protocols of medical procedures but must be knowledgeable of laws pertaining to the medical field and practice.
• Mesothelioma is the tip of the iceberg pertaining to the exposure of workers to dangerous chemicals while working. Let’s face it, some industries have a long history of abusing and not providing for their employees. Some of the problems developed because the issue is little understood but unethical policies are maintained to promote the bottom line. Many lives have been disrupted or lost because of industrial indifference to the health and welfare of the work force.
• Defamation Investigation, include slander and libel, are designed to protect personal or business image and reputation. This area is becoming charged with all kinds of hyperbole making it difficult to separate the malicious and defamatory from all of the politic abuse heaped up by the train loads by the media. Politicians, celebrities and corporations all strive to maintain a positive, beneficial image.
• Personal Injury Investigations cover the slip and fall, industrial accidents, construction accidents and other work-related injuries. Many are insurance investigators. This is a difficult area as there is almost as much fraud in the insurance industry as social security and welfare. This is on both sides of the issue so that it is a difficult to address. Investigators for the plaintiff are striving to prove liability, usually through negligence while the investigator for the defense is trying to collect a body of evidence showing reasonable compliance with safety standards and regulation.
• Intellectual Property Investigation, not only industrial espionage but patent, trademark and copyright infringements.
There are some specialists in these fields. Forensic engineering is the reconstruction of accidents. Not only do they reconstruct accidents using physics, chemistry and engineering but it must meet the criteria set by the courts to be evidence worthy.
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