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Drop Zone Promotion Brochures Full-color, 8.5" x 11" (22 x 28 cm) brochures describing the sport of skydiving designed for parachute center use. Photos and text describe the skydiving training, equipment, Tandem jumps and the adventure of the sport. Order folded and rubber stamp your center address and telephone number in the 3" x 4.25" (7.6 x 11 cm) back panel or order flat and have the brochures printed or run them through a photocopy machine. An inexpensive advertising aid for drop zones. Specify flat or folded. )GROX $8.00 per hundred to members, $11.00 per hundred to rronmembers. Shipping: U.S., air shipping $3.00 for first hundred, $1.00 for each additional hundred. Foreign shipping, per hundred, $3.00 surface, $12.00 air. XBRO1 Sample $1.00, postage included. PIA Documents All the Parachute Industry Association publications in a three-ring report folder. Included are the Bylaws, all the PIA Technical Standards, Technical Bulletins, SOPs and other documents: Over 100 pages in all. A PIA directory (see next item) is also included. One copy of PIA Documents is included with PIA membership. XDOC $15.00 to members, $25.00 to nonmembers Shipping: U.S., air shipping included. Foreign: air shipping $4.00 PIA Mailing List Nearly 200 names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers for the parachute industry in the U.S. and abroad. Both PIA members and nonmembers. A copy is included with PIA Documents (above). XLIST $2.00 to members, $5.00 to nonmembers XLSTD On IBM disk. $10 to members, $20 to nonmembers Shipping: U.S., air shipping included. Foreign: air shipping $1.00 PIA Lapel Pin PIA logo in blue and white with gold trim, 5/8" wide with clutch back. For members only. New! xPrN $5.00 Shipping: U.S., air shipping included. Foreign: air shipping $1.00 ES To order from the PIA Store I Telephone orders: In the U.S.: Call Para Publishing toll free 1(800) PARAPUB (727-2782). Foreign: Call Para Publishing (805) 968-7277. Have your Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Optima or American Express card ready. E Fax orders: (805) 968-1379. Include credit card number, expiration date and exact cardholder name on card. d Postal Orders: PIA Store, P.O. Box 40500- A, Santa Barbara, CA 93140-0500, USA, Make cheques payable to Parachute Industry Association. Credit cards, include number, expiration date and exact cardholder name on card. Payment. PIA is a volunteer-run organization. We do not have the facilities or time to operate an accounts receivable department. We do not extend credit. Sending an order requesting billing will only delay it. On the other hand, we do accept cheques and credit cards. Foreign orders, please make cheques payable in U.S. funds, drawn on a U.S. bank. International Postal Money Orders are preferred. Sales taxz 7.75Vo sales tax will be charged to orders shipped to California addresses unless you send your resale number. Satisfaction guaranteed: Order any PIA product and look it over. If it is not precisely what you want, return it for a full refund, at any time, for any reason. No questions asked. You can't lose! Augu8i1993 winword\ pia \brc-prcd.doc F0D:956
!T$EN n[ils LEGAT OUESTIOTS O Whet do you do if e product \ wes destropd routinely, such $t r crr thrt wrs totrled end sold for scrrp? A Interview everyone who may lr have seen the product to "reconstruct" its condition. locate an identical product based upon records. Registration codes, age of other parts, or anything else to identify the make, model and serial number for showing a similar product, will be helpful. O Are photognphs of the prod- \ uct helpful? A Yes. Without the producr, rr photographs can show its condition. Photographs taken during tests also are useful to prove that no alterations occurred. O Should ourcomprnyengineer \ or rn independent engineer exemine rnd tesl the product? t The one who will know the rl 66s1 about your product will be your engineers. Use them. If he or she later has to testify, of course they are prejudiced in favor of the company. This does not, per se, disqualify them. They can, in fact, provide competent evidence of the condition of the product immediately after the incident, before others who know less about the product may have done something to alter its condition. This could be critical as proof that the product was not a proximate cause of the incident. Why should e product not be disessembled? A Often, when a product is rr disassembled, it is exposed to air or the environment or something can be dislodged and not returned to its condition at the time of the incident. While disassembling can be done by properly trained persons, the disassembler has the burden to show that the condition oI the product was not altered by such disassembly. O Test Your Product Cautiously I nV person who possesses or tests the product fl which is evidence in personal injury or prop I lerty damage cases is obligated to preserve and ensure that the product is not altered or lost. This duty also exlends to a manufacturer's staff, trial counsel, and engineers. Failure to preserve the product can result in serious sanclions, such as preclusion of evidence at the trial, dismissal, or default. Also, the person who loses or alters the product may find him/herself presented with an independent claim for "spoilation of evidence." Consider, for example, the case of a worker injured by a machine you manufactured. You receive notice of the occurrence and are told that a product malfunction caused the injury. Usually, the worker or employer will have on hand the particular machine which injured the worker. You send your product safety manager out to investigate, which often encompasses inspection and testing of the product. Look, don't touch. The scope of the inspection your investigalor may conduct is very limited. The examiner should not disassemble the product, nor conduct a test which would alter the product's condition in any way. Courts increasingly impose sanctions on a party who fails to act responsibly to ensure the preservation of evidence. More than simply preventing product loss, prescrvation means ensuring that the product's condition, as it existed at the time of the occurrence, is maintained. Courts consider a ( Coun, consider a product destroyed if it is altered to make subsequent inspections meoningless. ) Wayne Plaza Rooks, Pitts, and Pousi Chicago product destroyed if it is altered so that subsequent inspections are rendered meaningless. Whether intentional or merely negligent, the destruction will result in sanctions. Moreover, sanctions will be imposed even if a protective order was not in effect at the time of the testing. Courts may exclude testimony from persons whose destructive testing prevented meaningful testing by the opposing party. The most serious sanction is dismissal ofa plaintiff or default. Court decisions presuppose that an expert should not be allowed to destroy evidence, then replace that evidence with his own opinion. Protecting yourself. Manufacturers should conduct pre-suit lesting only in an emergency situation or where it will not aller the product. Secure the product in a safe place until a suit has been filed and a judge oversees the scope o[ testing. Maintain the names of everyone who had possession of the product at any time after the incident. Names later prove the "chain of possession" to assure that the tested product was the one involved in the incident. lf practical, take control of the product to ensure it is preserved. lf you cannot secure the product, advise the parties who have it, in writing, that they should do so and advise you ifand when an inspection or lesting is to be conducted. lf testing is necessary, take care in conducting the test. Follow the standard issued by the American Society for Testing and Materials, which advises whoever conducts the examination to document the product's condition by description and photographs. tl Wayne Plaza and other auorneys lrom Rooks, Pitts and Rtust *,ill he presenting a hands-on workshop, co-sponsored by Design News, "PRODUCT LIABILITY-.'I SURVIVAL KIT FOR THE '90s" on March 10, 1993, during the National Dcsign Engineering Show, in Chicago. For more information, contoct Donna Rudek at Rooks, Pitts and Poust. FAX (312) 726-92J9. Phone (312) 372-5600. Fax your fegal questions to Dcsiga Nens at (617) 558-4402 or e-mail your questions to DnBos (MCI Mail) or dnbos@mcimail.com (lnternet). 1E8/Design News/'12-7-92
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