Sliding barn door injuries are very common.
Hotel bathrooms, long term care facilities, and multi residential common areas are part of the current claims where Mike Panish has been the retained door expert witness. Mike has been retained by both plaintiff and defense for almost 200 individual sliding barn door injury cases in the past couple of years alone. In the past few weeks he has been retained on almost a dozen new sliding barn door injury claims, two within a couple of blocks of one another in neighboring hotels in the same city.
Coincidence or to be expected? Read this article authored by Mike Panish, Door & Gate Expert Witness, about barn doors in hotels and why barn doors fail and fall on people. Mike Panish, Door & Gate Expert Witness, is retained on numerous personal injury cases across the country where hotel guests become trapped under falling barn style doors as they use them to get into the bathroom in their guest room. When a barn door falls off of the track it can cause serious personal injury and sometimes death. Lack of inspection and maintenance are often the reason for patrons or guests becoming injured with defectively operating sliding barn doors. Defects with commercial barn doors often originate with improper installation techniques. Once new construction or renovations include barn doors, there is an imparted responsibility to the management or owner of a property to fully know and understand what ongoing repairs and observations are needed. Depending upon what type of hardware was installed, different problems can arise. Once a problem is observed, proactive inspection and swift remediation is the only responsible solution to reducing the possibility of future injuries.
Mike Panish, Door & Gate Expert Witness, has worked with and provided his expert services for leading national manufacturers of sliding barn door systems. He has consulted with these companies to develop methods that have helped eliminate sliding barn door hardware failures, including more definitive instructions for maintenance, and the addition of thread locking chemicals that are pre-applied at the factory to components that have routinely shown failures in use.
Mike has been retained as door expert witness by general contractors and subcontractors who have been named as parties in a personal injury lawsuit when a barn door injury occurs.
In numerous recent site inspections for personal injury cases involving barn doors that have fallen on hotel guests, Mike has requested and been allowed access to multiple guest rooms of the facility to establish how the property owners are maintaining their sliding barn door systems. Other so-called experts attending these inspections opted to remain in the subject room and not view other examples to see the facility maintenance capabilities. He has been retained and hired as a consultant by management and helped to develop protocols and maintenance practices and procedures to ensure safe usage of their sliding door hardware.
Mike is the only true sliding barn door expert witness in the nation and has personal injury and wrongful death cases in most states. Opposing experts only embarrass themselves as they take hundreds of useless measurements and photographs without knowing how the hardware really needed to function. It is obvious to all in attendance that Mike is truly in charge of any inspection he is asked to make. He is fast, thorough, and highly knowledgeable with all of the hardware and components that he evaluates.
If you have a barn door injury claim, any other type of door or gate injury case, whether plaintiff or defense, you owe it to your client to enlist Mike’s services as soon as you are working on the claim. Don’t delay in retaining Mike to help you with your door or gate case, because the other opposing attorneys are going to be calling his office as well. Mike provides unbiased opinions that are equally applicable to all sides. He knows what he is talking about and will help you get an honest evaluation of your position in the claim. Be proactive and efficient with your time. Call Mike now. Don’t go searching for “an anything for a buck expert” or one that specialized in leaky plumbing or baby car seats last month. When you need the best for your case, call Mike Panish, the only real door and gate expert witness. Our office will clear you of conflicts and set up a complementary 15 minute call with Mike to run your case by him.