4/3/2021· Recreation & Sports
Injury Prevention: Amusement Course Safety
By: Dr. Laura Miele
An indoor trampoline park contains wall-to-wall trampolines, bordered either by angled trampoline walls or padding. Recently these parks have added features such as ninja courses, hanging nets, trapeze, wipe out, spider walls, foam obstacles and towers, to name few. All of these features require risk analysis to assist in keeping the public safe.
3/18/2021· Healthcare Facilities - Hospitals
Anatomy Of A Hospital Flex Budget Report
By: Sahel Shwayhat, MBA, FACHE
What does a Flex report tell us? The two right most columns are the crux of the Flex report. One column shows how a department performed against a static budget (developed months earlier with certain assumptions in mind), and the other column shows how a department performed against a newly "flexed" budget, that took product volume and mix into consideration.
3/14/2021· Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Meat Processor Selects Modern ERP System To Keep Pace With Its Rapid Growth
Vertical integration allows the company to control all aspects of beef production. It partners with ranchers and operates feed lots, ensuring cattle are fed to their standards. In addition to its processing capabilities, the company operates its own trucking line, providing products from farm to table. The company supplies beef to the US retail grocery and foodservice markets, federal school lunch programs and the US military worldwide.
2/25/2021· Digital / Crypto Currency
What Criminal Defense Attorneys Need To Know About Bitcoins
By: Beth Mohr, CFE, CAMS, CCCI
What is Bitcoin, and how might it impact your practice as a criminal defense attorney? In this article we’ll look at Bitcoin, what it is and how it works; we’ll discuss how bitcoins are used, both for illicit purposes, as well as for legal and legitimate business purposes. We will also examine how you might encounter bitcoins; discover ways
2/19/2021· Nonprofit Organizations
Nonprofit Dissolution: What Do You Need To Know
By: Jess Birken, Esq
Dissolution can be a happy occasion (yay, we accomplished our mission!) or it can be very sad and emotional. But no matter what brings a nonprofit to that point, the decision to dissolve is a big one. And, to the surprise of some folks, that decision is just the very beginning of what can be a very long process
2/13/2021· Transportation
COVID-19, Shenanigans and Liability Part 2: Making Money by Compromising Health
By: Ned Einstein
Amtrak, the heavily-subsidized enemy of the motorcoach industry, is now outdoing its airline industry colleagues. But as a quasi-government monopoly, the taxpayers will effectively cover the damages if problems develop. That Amtrak may not even belong in most parts of the country is …
2/2/2021· Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Failed Implementation of a Major Software Developer's Payroll System
Panorama’s Expert Witness team was retained to provide a forensic analysis and written report to the court regarding the failed implementation of a major software developer’s ERP/payroll system. The goal of the implementation was to allow for the generation of accurate and traceable employee payrolls for a large governmental entity.
1/22/2021· Patents
Right-Pricing Cellular Patent Licensing in 4G and 5G Connected Vehicles
By: Keith Mallinson
While litigation is bogging down the licensing of cellular standard essential patents (SEPs) in vehicles with disputes about where in the production supply chain licensing may or must occur, this is also delaying payment of Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) royalty charges in these cases and causing confusion about licensing value.
1/22/2021· Damages
Economic Damages Calculations: Ex-Ante and Ex-Post Considerations
By: Michael Pakter
The choice and use of an ex-ante or ex-post analysis can lead to divergent results in protracted litigation. The article provides an illustration of how and why the results may differ. Litigation consultants are advised to consider the above and await instruction from legal counsel regarding the approach that needs to be taken.
1/10/2021· Insurance
Arbitration and Insurance Litigation: Beware of Retrospective Premium Adjustments
I have been retained as an Insurance Expert or Insurance Arbitrator to confirm the proper calculation of insurance premiums, based on actual exposures, completed by the insurer at audit. In the first case, a large Hotel bought out their partner and inherited a large Wrap-Up Program of Insurance.
