Services

Medical Case Review & Analysis

  • Review and interpret medical records for accuracy, relevance, and completeness

  • Identify deviations from standards of care

  • Correlate medical facts with allegations in legal cases

  • Prepare concise case summaries and chronologies

Case Strategy & Attorney Support

  • Assist attorneys in understanding complex medical terminology and treatment details

  • Identify key medical issues, strengths, and weaknesses of a case

  • Recommend potential expert witnesses or assist in locating them

  • Support case preparation for depositions, mediations, and trials

Expert Witness Support & Liaison Work

  • Assist in locating and vetting expert witnesses (physicians, nurses, other specialists) who can testify

  • Prepare experts for deposition/trial: help them understand the case, interpret medical issues, prepare questions or testimony

  • Serve as a fact witness on nursing standard of care

Litigation Support & Trial Preparation

  • Organize, tab/paginate medical records for use in litigation

  • Review and summarize depositions, assist with interrogatories, assist drafting responses or reviewing legal documents as they relate to the medical facts

  • Create demonstrative evidence (timelines, charts, graphics) to help attorneys present medical issues clearly to judges/juries

  • Attend independent medical examinations (IMEs), defense medical exams (DMEs), mediations, arbitrations, trials to provide support

Client & Attorney Education

  • Educate attorneys (and their teams) about clinical facts, medical terminology, treatment processes, nursing issues and care standards. This helps bridge the gap between legal and healthcare worlds.

  • Serve as a liaison between attorneys, healthcare providers, parties/witnesses, experts.

Case Screening & Merit/Defensibility Assessment

  • Evaluate early on whether a case has merit (for plaintiff) or defensibility (for defense) from both clinical and legal perspectives

  • Identify causation, damages/injuries, standard of care deviations (or adherence), and potential defendants

Research & Literature Review

  • Perform healthcare research: identify relevant standards/guidelines, analyze medical literature/studies that might support (or impair) a case

  • Define applicable standard(s) of care and assess whether the healthcare provider(s) met or deviated from these standards

Risk Management / Preventive Services

  • In contexts of healthcare facilities, insurers or government agencies: help with risk-management investigations, regulatory compliance, reviewing staff competency, documentation practices, falls/injuries in long term care, medication errors, etc.

Cost, Damage & Life-Care Planning Support (in some cases)

  • For catastrophic injuries/long-term care situations: develop life care plans, project future medical costs, evaluate billing audits, prepare Medicare set-aside allocations, etc.

  • Assess damages, pain & suffering issues from a medical/clinical viewpoint

Research & Literature Review

  • Perform healthcare research: identify relevant standards/guidelines, analyze medical literature/studies that might support (or impair) a case

  • Hospital & Long Term Care Services

  • Hospital & Long Term Care Chart Audits

  • Hospital & Long Term Care Risk and Policy Review

  • Hospital & Long Term Care Services