A video site survey inspection can be utilized as an effective demonstrative aid to documenting a wide variety of issues to either preserve evidence, or record an expert witness’ examination of an item or device. Video inspections are essential for recording vehicle testing, product defects, on-the-job injury matters, premises liability, and eminent domain cases. Site surveys are an important tool for documenting damages to an individual, vehicle or building.
For construction defect matters, video site inspections are imperative for documenting the presence of mold, grading and sloping issues; improper framing, stucco, siding and roofing failures, as well as other problems. Preserving this type of evidence for trial can be critical for your client’s claim.
Inspection videos can also be effective for documenting and preserving pre-construction surveys whereby the property boundaries, ingress and egress are videotaped along with the property’s existing landscape and hardscape to demonstrate pre-construction conditions or temporary and/or permanent construction easements.
Video site surveys can show more effectively the spatial relationships of a scene for line-of-sight safety issue, an office layout, warehouse or parking lot, intersection, or scene of an accident. Legal Video Services offers and recommends digital still photography be utilized in conjunction with video documentation to provide a more robust presentation of the site or examination conditions. Digital photos may be enlarged and, or presented with survey overlays for demonstrative purposes, both for settlement and in the event of a trial. Video site surveys are delivered on DVD, with an option to edit the footage to highlight key areas of interest, and custom DVD menus can make it easy to navigate scenes for playback at deposition, mediation or trial.