Opinion ID: 3165150
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Heading: Inspection of Mr. Birch’s Vehicle

Text: On November 5, 2013, Appellants’ counsel emailed counsel for Polaris to say she “would like to do a joint inspection (your guys and mine) to drill a hole in the cage tubing to measure the wall thickness of the tubing.” Id. at 520. She also wrote that Appellants “would . . . want to cut out a medallion to test the hardness of material and get a chemical analysis.” Id. at 520. On April 22, 2014, Jeffrey Croteau, an expert witness hired by Polaris, inspected Mr. Birch’s vehicle at a storage warehouse in St. George. He determined during that inspection that the ROPS on the vehicle at the time it crashed was made for a 2008 RZR -7- model, rather than a 2011 model. On June 26, 2014, representatives from both sides jointly disassembled the modified vehicle.