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PERSONAL INJURY
Types of Services
Our Expert Healthcare Consultants evaluate the delivery of healthcare, analyze its outcomes and interpret its consequence as it is documented in the medical records. We collaborate, educate and offer services in the medical issues of litigation as it relates to the issues:
Review Case Facts by Assessing the Medical Records and Analyzing the Attorney's Case by:
- Identifying, locating, reviewing and interpreting relevant medical records and billing records.
- Organize, tab, and paginate medical records for easy reference.
- Prepare chronologies of the medical sequence of events pertinent to the case issues.
- Summarize, translate and interpret medical records, billing records to enhance the attorney's understanding of the applicable medical treatment rendered as it relates to the culpable incident involved.
- Identify issues of tampering within the medical records - inaccuracies, fraud & billing errors.
- Identify any medical malpractice issues, if any, in the resulting treatment.
- Identify causation issues, assess damages/injuries and identify pre-existing and/or contributing factors.
- Develop written reports/ medical fact chronology for the attorney's use in case preparation.
Assistance in Supporting the Attorney's Case
- Research and summarize literature. Integrate the results of the search into the case analysis where appropriate.
- Analyze validity of opposing party's research.
- Coordinate and attend independent medical examines.
Serve as the Attorney's Strategic Alliance
- Interview plaintiff or defense clients, key witnesses and experts
- Collaboratively consult with health care providers regarding causation, damages and mechanism of injuries. We find health care providers are more open with us as nurses than with the attorney alone. Meet with medical consultants and other service providers on the Attorney's behalf.
Work with Experts and Other Witnesses
Identify and locate types of testifying experts needed specific to your case - medical, nursing, forensic document examiners.
Communicate and coordinate with appropriate expert witnesses for deposition and trial.
Analyze potential experts' reports, work product and publications.
Assist with experts' demonstrative evidence.
Assist in preparing experts and witnesses for deposition and trial.
Serve as fact witness and testify to the findings in the medical record.
Assist with Discovery and Trial Preparation
• Prepare questions for deposition or trial examination [direct or cross].
• Prepare medical aspect of interrogatories and requests for production.
• Analyze and summarize depositions and past testimony to identify inconsistencies with the appropriate medical records.
• Assist with exhibit preparation and other demonstrative evidence.
• Attend courtroom proceedings when requested.
• Assist with preparation of case resolutions through Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration or Mediation by assisting with/ or putting together a demand package.
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