Benefits
Why hire a Legal Nurse Consultant?
Experience:The legal nurse consultant has an extensive background of clinical experience, which includes interpretation of medical records, documents, and medical-legal issues.
Cost-effectiveness:
The legal nurse consultant utilizes their nursing background and knowledge of healthcare standards to identify strengths and weaknesses of a case.
Resourcefulness:
The legal nurse consultant possesses a network of medical professional resources and contacts.
Knowledge:
The legal nurse consultant has a thorough understanding of medical issues and trends related to the total litigation process. The legal nurse consultant is able to customize the case for the attorney, the client and jury.
Legal Nurse Consultant Experience:
Physicians’ Reciprocal Insurers- Roslyn, NY
- Title: Claims Representative/ Legal Nurse Consultant
- Responsible for developing investigative data and ultimately structuring a basis for appropriate disposition of a claim.
- Review the medical record for departures from good and accepted medical practice which constitutes medical malpractice.
- Prepare and develop a concise chronological report that compares events to the allegations.
- Identify factors and acts of negligence that contributed to or caused the alleged injury.
- Identify the medical personnel involved, their relationship to the patient, and treatment rendered based on documentation in the medical record in regards to potential liability.
- Interview PRI insured MD’s names in said case, getting their take on what happened and why.
- Research medical literature on diagnosis, treatment, and standards of care, integrating vital information in relation to the case using internet and medical journals.
- Research and recommend appropriate expert witnesses.
State of New York Office of the Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer- New York, NY.
- Obtaining a certified copy of the medical records from the named facility.
- Contacting Risk Management to request necessary reports, tests, x-rays, to assist with discovery, obtain signature identification, physician status and last know address.
- Faxing a copy of the claim to the named facility.
- Review the medical record for departures from good and accepted medical practice which constitutes medical malpractice.
- Prepare and develop a concise chronological report that compares events to the allegations.
- Identify factors and acts of negligence that contributed to or caused the alleged injury.
- Identify the medical personnel involved, their relationship to the patient, and treatment rendered based on documentation in the medical record in regards to potential liability.
- Keep a detailed record of all correspondence and data exchanged with Risk Management.
- Research medical literature on diagnosis, treatment, and standards of care, integrating vital information in relation to the case using internet and medical journals.
- Research and recommend appropriate expert witnesses.
- Select pertinent data to send to the expert witness.
- Serve as a liaison between the attorney and the provider by following up on discovery requests to assure a timely response.