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The computer animation program Animated Dissection of Anatomy for Medicine (A.D.A.M.) could change the way medical malpractice and other torts involving personal injury are litigated, and the courts need to be prepared to allow the use of such computer-generated evidence. A.D.A.M. shows a human cadaver, allowing for layer upon layer to be peeled away for a three-dimensional view of the body. Such technology has the potential to make complicated issues more understandable to juries. A.D.A.M.should be subject to all other rules of evidence, including discovery and relevancy tests, but such computer-generated images should be allowed.
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Plaintiffs in repetitive stress injury cases brought over computer keyboards should consolidate similar cases while computer makers should include warnings and safety guides with their machines. Courts appear unfriendly to consolidation efforts, but are also loath to accept repetitive stress injury as a litigable harm, and consolidation can help overcome the high costs of proving causation. Computer makers may reduce liability to lawsuits through prior warnings, which have in any event never increased anyone's liability.
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Corporate counsel can take a number of steps to ensure that unintended disclosures of company computer records are minimized in the discovery stage of litigation. The counsel should institute record destruction procedures that provide for regular removal of electronic information. This is ethically acceptable as long as destruction ceases when litigation is imminent. The index method should be used on litigation support systems to ensure that all the information contained in the system is considered work product.
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