Services

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

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 or even expert witness (depending on credentials, nursing practice, and case specifics) on nursing standard of care.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.