Slip and Fall Court Case is Reinstated Due to Video Deletion - Drives Need for MORe

ediscoverylaw.com outlines a recent decision of the Supreme Court of the Virgin Islands, Bright v. United Corp., 2008 WL 2971769 (V.I. July 22, 2008), that reinstated a slip and fall trial after the lower court had summarily dismissed the case. One of the prime considered facts in reinstating the plaintiff's case was the defendant's video surveillance policies. Poor procedures resulted in the store manager failing to copy and preserve the video of before and after the defendant slipped and fell. This video evidence was subsequently lost when the DVR recycled it's disk's content.

This example outlines the increased importance video surveillance and the retention of video can play in litigation. More so, it highlights the need for longer periods of retention and clear business policies that provide procedures for recording and exporting video of any slip and fall accidents, including the time before and after the occurrence.

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TimeSight NVRs with Video Lifecycle Management Offer Longer Surveillance Video Retention.

TimeSight Video Surveillance Appliances are the first intelligent network video recorders (NVRs) to implement Video Lifecycle Management (VLM). VLM applies business-class rules to both motion and non-motion video and allows 100% video capture with any camera. By adapting compression and frame rates according to user-defined parameters and schedules, video data is scaled down commensurate with its decreasing risk profile. TimeSight appliances with VLM therefore eliminate the issues associated with higher resolution cameras and the risk of Record On Motion (ROM) only solutions by capturing all video data and intelligently compressing it over time.

TimeSight appliances enable users to increase image quality and retention periods at a fraction of the normal storage cost. More importantly, TimeSight removes the risk inherent in Record On Motion by providing Motion Optimized Recording (MORe) instead. Unlike ROM solutions which can fail to record events below threshold limits or outside of defined perimeters, MORe captures both non-motion and motion-based events for later analysis. By accommodating and capturing both video types, MORe provides better documentation of potentially litigious events and helps safeguard bottom-lines by mitigating risk.

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