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Do you really want the lowest bidding security agency to protect your company, your employees, your customers and all that you have worked for and your reputation just for a few dollars in cost difference?
 
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MSA Comparisons: We would like to point out to you another difference between MSA and our competitors. In business anywhere there are those businesses that market themselves as being the cheapest or the lowest cost product or service. Unfortunately in business, there will always be another business who can offer the same or a similar product or service cheaper. The downside with this manner of marketing is that quality always suffers.  In the security field; wages, training, equipment upgrades, equipment purchases and equipment maintenance always suffer leaving the client on the short end and not getting what he was promised. It does not due a client any bit of good when it receives substandard services.  Lives and a business success depends upon the security company performing their mission properly and professionally.  Wages that are too low tends to guarantee that there will be a high turnover rate of employment within the security services provider.  A high turnover rate equals a very large training cost for new employees.  In reality training is often overlooked because the security services provider cannot afford training therefore the client receives a substandard service  The old saying that “one gets what he pays for” is true.  If you pay for substandard service that is what you will receive even if you were promised a better service.

We at MSA have chosen a different manner of marketing and service.  We have always tried to provide the best possible service.  We are not saying that we are the highest price; far from it.  We simply offer the client the best value for the dollar.  We are saying that “lets not overlook problems”, “lets offer the client “the best service and the best price to do a specific job or mission correctly”.  “Lets offer the client a specific service to accomplish the job or mission 100% correctly with no short cuts at a specific price”. On top of this we offer our clients peace of mind, fixed costs, performance measures and long term commitments.  We are unafraid to take on responsibility.  When a service is outsourced to MSA.  It then becomes our mission.  If we fail we are responsible, when we succeed we have done so as part of a team effort.  

LIMIT YOUR LIABILITY

Many States now have similar legislation.

New PA State legislation effective only recently could limit a property owners liability in many areas.   (ACT No: 57) The new law SB 1089 amends section 7102 (comparative negligence) by deleting existing law governing recovery against joint defendants and inserting new provisions.  (Much of the below text was taken from the bill summary.)
It works like this:  In all actions brought to recover damages for negligence resulting in death or injury to a person or property; both the plaintiff and defendants are all judged by the jury as part of the verdict.   The jury would be asked to determine weather the plaintiff was negligent and weather the defendant or if multiple, each of the defendants was negligent.  If the answer is “no,” the inquiry stops as to that person.  Assuming the answer to all of these questions is “yes,” the jury would be asked to determine weather each party’s negligence was a substantial factor in bringing about harm to the plaintiff.  Again, if the answer to any of the questions is “no,” the inquiry stops at that person.   Assuming the answer to all of the yes / no questions presented thus far is “yes,” the jury would be asked to determine the amount of damage that occurred in dollars and assign a percentage to each party indicating the percentage of the total damage award attributable to that party.   The following are examples of the application of current law with total damages of $1,000,000.
 
If plaintiff was assigned 20%, Defendant A was assigned 25% and Defendant B was assigned 55%.

1.  Plaintiff would only be entitled to recover $800,000 (his award is reduced by the percentage attributable to his own negligence.)

2.  Either A and B could be required to pay the plaintiff $800,000 and to the extent that either A or B paid more than their percentage allocation, they would be entitled to contribute from the other.

If plaintiff was assigned more than 50%, plaintiff could not recover from A or B.
NOTE: A property owner could reduce much of its liability exposure through “outsource”.  If a particular business service function were outsourced, including its management, supervision, training, equipment purchases and recruitment.  Then requiring the outsourced service director to report directly to the your senior manager.  In this manner the property owner hires an independent contractor to accomplish specific missions, which must also meet or exceed specific criteria.   An example could be those goals listed from page 5 of our brochure.  The outsourced service company manages itself within specific guidelines.  The outsourced service company is therefore responsible for its own actions or inactions.

 If the outsourced service company was accused of negligence or was involved in misconduct and were sued, the property owner would most likely also be named.  During the award phase a jury could lesson a property owners degree of fault or remove it all together from fault leaving only an individual outsourced employee and the outsourced service company as defendants and responsible for all and any award.  The plaintiff may also be held negligent by a jury; thus reducing or eliminating any award.  This theory would only work if a property owner hired a properly equipped, trained and managed outsourced services company.  A jury may consider a property owner negligent if it hired a service company whose bid was very low, thus believing it unreasonable to expect a good quality services at such a low price.
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