CASE SCREENING & INVESTIGATION
Lawsuits present a challenge when addressing specialty areas in medicine, nursing or general health care issues. Pacific Legal Health will screen medical cases for merit, ensuring your time is well invested.
With a bottom line opinion, the attorney is knowledgeable of case strengths and weaknesses. Having a Legal Nurse Consultant on your team is an efficient and cost-effective way to promote faster settlement.
MEDICAL RECORDS INTERPRETATION
Whether your firm needs a brief overview to interpret the course of medical treatment, a visually appealing chronological time line, or an in-depth analysis of medical records, injuries, and future life care needs, Pacific Legal Health will review and organize medical records to ensure the legal team understands the entire case, all previous, current and future medical issues, and deviations or adherences from practice standards.
Armed with the big picture, attorneys are well prepared for discovery and will demonstrate the knowledge you need to improve your case settlement.
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
It is critical to know if your client's injuries and illness is a result of the alleged action. Pacific Legal Health provides in-depth education about diseases, mechanism of injury, and appropriate medical and nursing care associated with your client's claim.
It is our job to identify and educate attorneys, judge and jury about relevant health care issues. Ask us how we translate complex medical records into an easy to understand three-page report.
EXPERT WITNESS LOCATION
With a network of over 6,000 legal nurse consultants through the NACLNC organization, Pacific Legal Health offers location and liaison services for authoritative medical experts to represent their profession.
We locate clinically active testifying experts who specialize in areas critical to proving your case.
DISCOVERY SUPPORT
Pacific Legal Health will prepare health care related interrogatory and deposition questions that address the heart of the issue.
Forensic Computer Expert services address your eDiscovery concerns with document recovery, deleted file recovery, and online activity tracking. If it is electronic and discoverable, Pacific Legal Health will find it.
RESEARCH HEALTHCARE STANDARDS
Our health care educators will prepare you with standards of care and policies and procedures relevant to a case. We identify deviations and adherences to standards of care and may recommend specific documents to request for production. Recognizing this data is often critical to identifying error, negligence, and fault.
DEMONSTRATIVE PRODUCTION
Recognizing that a jury has specific learning needs, Pacific Legal Health will help attorneys, judges, and jurors recognize and retain significant information to help you win your case through demonstrative evidence. From a simple chronology with time line to digital graphic creations, your audience will have a clear understanding of your opinion.
DEPOSITION & TRIAL PREPARATION
Pacific Legal Health will work to locate and liaison with medical experts and nursing experts in preparation for litigation.
Ensuring the attorney is well-prepared, Pacific Legal Health offers information broker support to expand the attorney's knowledge of health care roles, medical conditions, and expected treatment standards.
EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS
Pacific Legal Health provides
MCLE seminars and educational materials to meet your law firm needs.
Let Pacific Legal Health be your health care educator to ensure your legal team possesses the expertise to address all angles of a medical-legal case.