Transportation Alternatives

Poor training and reckless disregard do not dominate the provision of transportation of our severely disabled residents. These failures often do great harm to a subsection of their passengers. But be careful to not make things worse by trying to outsmart those individuals likely to be familiar with these patients. And if you have forgotten the lessons you learned as a Cub Scout (or perhaps even a Brownie), if you get caught trying to pretend that something other than your violation of these childhood lessons was at stake when you committed them, you could be that rare fool who pays dearly for failing to remember that lesson. One such fool in a case I’m actively involved in – and possibly his accomplices -- is about to enjoy a serious, multi-year life-altering experience in one of our nation’s rundown hotels of incarceration, with little interest in the experience making him a better person when the ordeal is eventually over. Lest you forget, this isn’t Norway.





Especially for Lawyers – Why So Many Wheelchair Tipovers, Part 11: FTA Regulations and the Cub Scout Handbook. Adding to the possibly unending list of variables about wheelchair tipovers – the second most-common incident scenario in public transportation in most of its sectors – is a common response by drivers after some wheelchair user spills out of his or her chair – a scenarios that CAN NOT POSSIBLY...

A handful of errors and omissions account for a large number of turning incidents. An attorney is well advised to be aware of them and examine such incidents from these multiple angles.

Especially for Lawyers – Why so Many Turning Incidents My fully intact long-term memory remembers a cliché from my driver’s ed youth: Half of all collisions occur three or fewer blocks aware from one of the motorist’s homes. This is not because the familiarity induces one motorist to pay less attention.

Because neither healthcare agencies nor the brokers they hired to engage and “direct” the service knew what they were doing, neither cared how much money was wasted by letting the providers do what they wanted.







Especially for Lawyers – Why Do Many Wheelchair Tipovers, Part 8 For decades before NEMT brokers entered the non-emergency medical transportation (or NEMT) service scene, most companies that actually provided the service earned most of their money in two ways: 1. Turning in phantom invoices (called “Transportation Authorization Requests,” or “TARs” in tho...