Legal Nurse Consultants and Personal Injury Cases

The legal nurse consultant can be utilized in personal injury cases in the following ways:
· The LNC can quickly review medical records and determine what crucial medical records are missing and need to be ordered.
· The LNC can by a thorough review of the medical records identify issues in the case, including strengths and weaknesses and important evidence.
· The LNC can identify facts or statements that may suggest liability for the other party.
· The LNC can identify the consistencies and inconsistencies of the plaintiff’s complaint.
· The LNC can speak to the consistency between the mechanism of injury and the claimed and documented injuries.
· The LNC can educate the attorney regarding pathophysiology that makes the causation issues clear.
· The LNC can assist with the calculation of damages. The LNC can identify and request all billing records for medical care related to the incident. The LNC can speak to special and general damages.
· The LNC can perform searches of the medical literature regarding the issues of causation and damages.
· The LNC can be utilized to identify and obtain the appropriate experts for the case.
· The LNC can transform that stack (or boxes) of medical records into a format useful to the attorney.
· The LNC can attend independent medical examinations (IME’s).
· The LNC can testify as an expert fact witness.
· The LNC can assist with creating or obtaining demonstrative evidence for trial.