Services
What does a Legal Nurse Consultant do?
- Acts as a liaison with attorneys, physicians and clients
- Educates attorneys regarding medical facts and issues relating to a case or claim
- Researches applicable literature and evidence to determine the merits of a case
- Reviews and analyzes documents and compares them to allegations
- Summarizes medical literature
- Screens for record tampering
- Defines and evaluates the standards of care practices
- Evaluates the possible breach of duty on the part pf the healthcare practitioner or facility
- Prepares witness and exhibit lists
- Interviews witnesses and involved parties
- Prepares persuasive graphic exhibits for trial
- Assesses issues of damage and causation
- Identifies and retains expert witnesses
- Assists in obtaining medical records and identifying missing records
- Organizes medical records and other medically-related litigation materials
- Prepares chronologies of medical events and correlates them to allegations
- Develops collaborative case strategies with those practicing within the legal system
- Provides support during discovery, depositions, trial and other legal proceedings
What is the role of the Legal Nurse Consultant?
The primary role of the legal nurse consultant is to evaluate, analyze, and render informed opinions on the delivery of healthcare and the resulting outcomes. Legal nurse consultants offer support in a variety of practice areas including the following:
- Personal injury
- Product liability
- Medical and Nursing malpractice
- Workers’ compensation and workplace injury
- Toxic torts and environmental
- Risk management
- Medical licensure investigation
- Fraud and abuse, compliance
- Criminal law
- Elder law
- General negligence
- Other applicable cases where health, illness or injury is an issue
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