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MedicoLegal Specialties

Some of the common medicolegal specialties are listed below. We can assist with virtually any medicolegal review or proceeding.

DNA & Forensics

DNA testing has revolutionized both civil and criminal forensics in matters of paternity, medical diagnostics, criminal and military identification. We have contacts with expert forensic pathologists, DNA analytical labs and genetics scientists covering all the forensic specialties.

Drug Reactions & Screening

Expert analysis and opinion on allergic or idio-syncratic drug reactions is available. We have contact with a variety of drug testing labs and several experts who will offer second opinions on positive tests for substance abuse.

HMO and Managed Care Issues

Managed care is a fact of life in American health care today and is affecting the daily lives of millions. Whether you are for or against the trend, it is a force to be reckoned with. We offer expert advice on such issues as quality of care, pre-existing conditions, access to specialists and experimental treatments and bringing or defending a lawsuit against a managed care organization.

Hospital and Nursing Home Cases

Negligence in nursing home or hospitalized patients may not always be exclusively medical or nursing malpractice. Experts in geriatrics, premature new-born care, nursing home and hospital administration and supervision standards are available to take advantage of newer legal theories involving these cases. Billing and Medicare expertise is also available.

Insurance & Disability Claims

We offer second opinions and independent medical exams for all types of insurance claims involving health care matters. We have a nationwide IME referral base for examinations and hundreds of physicians, surgeons, nurses and other paramedical specialists who will perform medical record reviews for insurance qualification and claims, disability including SSDI, employment physicals, etc.

Medical Malpractice

Our experts are experienced health professionals and are able to offer informed and reliable opinions for either plaintiff or defense. We keep them up to date on newer legal theories of negligence and responsibility involving such evolving issues as duty to warn, nursing home obligations, newer reproductive technologies, failure to diagnose specific ailments, medical Y2K problems and drug-related injuries.

Mental Health Cases

Psychiatric and psychological review for all legal and administrative matters involving mental health is available. This includes evaluation of competency, forensics and suicide evaluation and diagnosis and treatment of mental illness. Our panels include experts in such controversial areas as recovered memory, sexual addiction and harassment, pedophilia, post traumatic stress disorder and related ailments.

Personal Injury

We offer all types of personal injury case evaluation by experts in virtually all health care specialties. Auto accident, slip and fall, toxic tort, or any physical or emotional injury claim is subject to expert review. Expert advice on work-related repetitive motion injuries, post-traumatic fibromyalgia or myofascial pain syndromes and a variety of newer concepts in personal injury is available.

Product Liability

The recent tobacco suits and breast implant cases have changed the landscape of product liability law. Recent rulings from the federal judiciary including the Supreme Court have also had a profound effect on the nature of scientific evidence allowable in these cases. Our experts are informed as to the latest interpretations: what is allowable, what constitutes "junk" science and how to work with attorneys to achieve optimal results even in "gray areas."

Toxic Torts

Erin Brockovitch, A Civil Action, The Practice: toxic torts have been all over the TV and movie screens and seeping into the public conscience much as the contaminated groundwater or air pollution itself infiltrates people. We have both medical and basic environmental scientists to address these problem cases.

Workers' Compensation

Review of on the job injuries, claims, treatment and back to work/residual disability evaluations are frequent and usually require consultation with medical experts. We have contacts with a nationwide network of orthopedic surgeons, neurologists, physical medicine and rehabilitation specialists and chiropractors who specialize in on-the-job injuries: second opinion, record reviews and independent medical examinations.