Legal Nurse Consultants and Product Liability Cases
• The LNC can examine the standard of care (in pharmaceutical and medical device cases) practiced by the professional who prescribed the drug or medical device.
• The LNC can quickly review medical records and determine what crucial medical records are missing and need to be ordered.
• The LNC can thoroughly review all medical records specifically looking for co-existing illnesses and preexisting problems and/or conditions.
• The LNC can in pharmaceutical cases delineate the plaintiff’s pharmaceutical history specifically looking for drug-drug interactions, contraindication for use, prior use of the alleged drug or a drug in the same family without injury, or “physician-hopping”.
• The LNC can identify any possible third- party counterclaims.
• The LNC can make the link between the injury and the drug or device therapy.
• The LNC can perform medical literature searches related to the product including indications for the product, expected patient outcomes, package inserts and any warning associated with the product.
• 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 educate the attorney regarding pathophysiology that makes the causation issues clear.
• The LNC can assist with creating or obtaining demonstrative evidence for trial.