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Need help with your medical case? H&A stands ready

Every medical record is mired in thousands of tedious bits of information. As the medical insider on your litigation team, a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant® delivers the cost-effective medical expertise to uncover the crucial facts from medical records that can be the difference between winning and losing your cases.

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With more than 18 years of extensive experience as a critical care and cardiac cath lab nurse, I will provide you with the clinical knowledge and experience needed to efficiently and expertly get to the core of a case. I currently work in the hospital environment and have intimate knowledge of the operations of an acute care facility. As a staff nurse, I critique medical, nursing and ancillary care services on a daily basis, and have done so for almost two decades.

 

In my practice as a legal nurse consultant, you can count on me to focus on medical and nursing issues, allowing you more time to focus on the legal matters in a case. I have access to a network of nurse consultants that can provide expertise in a wide range of disciplines and a database of some of the best medical experts in the country. It is my objective to help you win the case and save you time and money!

CASE SCREENING

Avoid bad cases with an expert screening

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  • Efficiently, expertly and in a timely manner analyze cases for merit

  • Analysis based on vast medical experience, knowledge, education, training, case information, and all medical records and information provided to me

  • Screen out cases that are medically non-meritorious or economically nonviable

  • Evaluate and determine the applicable standard of care

  • Rejecting a case at an early stage allows the attorney to use their time more productively...saving valuable time and money

COMPREHENSIVE CASE EVALUATION

Objective, comprehensive case review

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  • Careful investigation of claims

  • Opinions based on relevant policies and procedures and applicable local state and federal standards of care

  • Research medical topics and educate attorney​
  • Summarize medical records 

  • Construct medical care timeline

  • Educate attorney about issues that may affect damages, liability, and causation

MEDICAL EXPERT TESTIMONY

Get the right expert for your case

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  • Provide expert witness testimony when appropriate given my background and experience

  • Locate appropriate medical experts in relevant specialties after interpreting and investigating case records

  • Review qualifications of opposing medical expert(s)

  • Work with and communicate directly with nursing or medical expert, if desired

  • Assist in preparing nursing or medical expert for deposition or testimony

LEGAL CASE SUPPORT

Informed support for medical legal cases

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  • Assist with development of deposition and interrogatory lines of inquiry and anticipated questions from opposing counsel

  • Development of trial exhibits

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