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Legal Nurse Consultants Network

A Wide Array of Services Including Chronology & Narrative Reports

At Legal Nurse Consultants Network, we offer a wide array of services like medical record review, defense medical exams, etc. Our priority is to provide services that give guaranteed results that meet your expectations. We pride ourselves on the in-depth knowledge and experience we offer to you.

Our Medical Expertise

The Legal Nurse Consultant’s (LNC) education, expertise, and years of experience in health care institutions as professional nurses enable us to understand, investigate, and communicate health-related information in a way that no other profession can match. The LNC’s attention to detail, experience with the health care industry, familiarity with medical terminology, and medical expertise assist attorneys throughout the litigation process.

A nurse can supplement the attorney’s knowledge of the case and help achieve a favorable outcome for the client. Time is money! Put the LNC’s years of experience to work for you so you can focus your time on your client and case.

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Our Services

My Process

Identify standards of care, causation, and damage issues to help determine the merits of a case, clarify existing standards of care, and show relationship to allegations at hand, which would help attorneys identify strong cases and prevent them from taking on weaker ones.

Why a Nurse Box

  • The services of a CLNC are far more cost-effective than those of the physician. As a healthcare provider, having countless hours of face-to-face contact with patients, the CLNC has a better understanding of the nuances of daily care and can educate the attorney on a wide range of medical issues. This knowledge saves time and money when working with an expensive medical expert.
  • Obtain medical records mentioned by the plaintiff up to 10 years before alleged malpractice to determine client credibility and/or plaintiff partially responsible for any adverse event or complication.
  • Obtain request for authorization from the plaintiff for additional providers with attorney.
  • Timely acquisition of medical records before deposition.
  • Check medical records from completeness.
  • Check ancillary records such as pharmacy, autopsy, alternative medicine, military, policy and procedures, staffing documents.
  • Check for updated records from known providers that are periodically updated( if applicable).
  • Check new providers if applicable.
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Creation of reports with bates stamp pagination, note missing documents, flag inconsistencies in the medical record arduous, and time-consuming process. Provide medical record summary, analyze and uncover hidden crucial facts and nuances of daily care from complex medical records that are relevant to winning the case.

Chronology is often critical in identifying missing records and ensure that the discovery process is thorough. Each chronology outlines significant medical events related to allegations and highlights possible areas of liability.
Chronology details include:

  • Date and time of service.
  • The facility and provider of care.
  • The bates number, important medical-legal information.
  • LNCN can help attorneys (Plaintiff/Defense) identify and obtain important medical records.
  • Pltf - interview injured client/or representative of an estate to identify additional providers before depositions.
  • Obtain medical records mentioned by the plaintiff up to 10 years before alleged malpractice to determine client credibility and/or plaintiff partially responsible for any adverse event or complication.
  • Obtain request for authorization from the plaintiff for additional providers with attorney.
  • Timely acquisition of medical records before deposition.
  • Check medical records from completeness.
  • Check ancillary records such as pharmacy, autopsy, alternative medicine, military, policy and procedures, staffing documents.
  • Check for updated records from known providers that are periodically updated( if applicable).
  • Check new providers if applicable.

Offshore chronology is created by foreigner medical personnel can contain terminology mistake, and often we provide a quick second look reviewing the chronology for accuracy and completeness. Request additional files missing and creating questions for clarification and support with medical research.

Share - Is offshore outsourcing the future of medical record analysis? I certainly hope not. The purpose of a medical chronology is to isolate critical data for the attorney and his experts.

Attorneys need a focused chronology that isolates relevant facts with an explanation of why that fact is important. This allows them to formulate questionnaires and affidavits and prepare for depositions. They do not want hundreds of hours of billing. The reason there are thousands of pages in record reviews is because facilities, hospitals, and providers are asked to produce each and every EMR in their possession. A comprehensive compilation of thousands of pages contains lengthy and irrelevant information, making it difficult for an attorney to find what she is looking for. Capturing this data requires only literacy, not discrimination on the part of the reviewer. An offshore reviewer can perform this task.

By contrast, nurses know hospital and office records, abbreviations, and handwritten documentation, and we can weigh care delivered against known standards and guidelines. We are selective in the data extracted, and concentrate on the seminal event while noting pre-existing conditions and discrepancies in care. We do not skip pages that are difficult to decipher, and we scan, choose, and discard data rapidly. The merits or defense of a case take shape during this review, and those findings are shared immediately, as well as requests for missing documentation.

Without this informed review of records, the attorney is left with hundreds of pages of data that is a timeline, not a focused evaluation. The most thought-provoking data is always in the private Comments column (just remember to delete that column before sharing with a testifying expert).

  • Define standards of care and expose breaches in the standard of care or regulations.
  • Research and apply authoritative medical and nursing literature to support and challenge your theory.
  • Identify summarize medical literature/identify facts with the medical record that support the claim educate attorneys on applications of literature to their case.
  • Lunch and Learn class for specific medical topics.

Expert witness location services - Identify, locate vetted medical and nursing expert witnesses who provide attorneys with qualified experts. Also locate life care planner, medical coding specialist, life care planners, medical set-asides, IT specialist for medical record tampering.

  • Discuss project parameters potential experts /deadlines with the attorney in charge.
  • Send contract/fee schedule/and obtain flat fee retainer.
  • Contact potential experts request a CV, fee schedule.
  • Prequalification phone call with notes.
  • Communicate via email/phone with updates on progress.
  • Create a report with the requested information/analysis.
  • Expert search
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Discovery Assistance - Deposition Assistance/Medical Records Retrieval

Medical record retrieval

  • LNCN can help attorneys (Plaintiff/Defense) identify and obtain important medical records.
  • Pltf- interview injured client/ or representative of an estate to identify additional providers before depositions.
  • Obtain medical records mentioned by the plaintiff up to 10 years before alleged malpractice to determine client credibility and or plaintiff partially responsible for any adverse event or complication.
  • Obtain request for authorization from the plaintiff for additional providers with attorney.
  • Timely acquisition of medical records before deposition.
  • Check medical records from completeness.
  • Check ancillary records such as pharmacy, autopsy, alternative medicine, policy and procedures, staffing documents.
  • Check for updated records from known providers that are periodically updated (if applicable).
  • Check new providers if applicable.
  • Review of offshore chronology
  • Medical literature search
  • Contact/call to action
  • Allied support services (computer screen)

Create Chronology/Time Lines/Narrative Reports

  • Deposition review and questions.
  • Review interrogatories.
  • Review deposition.
  • Prepare questions for depositions.
  • Attend depositions and trials
  • Deposition assistance/questions/attendance.
  • Review insurance/Medicare charges to obtain missing records.
  • Obtaining medical records/record retrieval- identify records that may be missing.
  • Obtain medical records mentioned by the plaintiff up to 10 years before alleged malpractice to determine client credibility and or plaintiff partially responsible for any adverse event or complication.
  • Obtain request for authorization from the plaintiff for additional providers with attorney.
  • Timely acquisition of medical records before deposition.
  • Check medical records from completeness.
  • Check ancillary records such as pharmacy, autopsy, alternative medicine, military, policy, and procedures, staffing documents.
  • Check medical records from completeness.
  • Check for updated records from known providers are periodically updated( if applicable).
  • Check new providers if applicable

Mass Tort Evaluation/Product Liability Cases

Mass tort/product liability cases

Legal Nurse Consultants Network

My Process

  • Discuss project parameters/deadlines with the attorney in charge
  • Send contract/fee schedule/and obtain a retainer
  • Create LNC team (when required)/distribute cases/monitor progress with weekly meeting
  • LNC team will organize, summarize, and review medical charts for large plaintiff cases
  • Communicate via email/phone to attorneys with updates on the progress
  • Create a report with requested information/analysis

Major Types of Liability Claims

  • Manufacturing defect, which occurs in manufacturing and usually involves poor-quality materials or shoddy workmanship.
  • Design defect, which occurs where the product design is inherently dangerous or useless, and fails expectations on what is a safe product, whereby its risks outweigh its benefits.
  • Failure-to-warn (also known as marketing) defects, which arise in products that carry inherent non-obvious dangers which could be mitigated through adequate warnings to the user, and these dangers are present regardless of how well it is manufactured.

Product liability is an area of personal injury law that focuses on dangerous and defective products. It is the area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others who make products available to the public are held responsible for injuries those products cause. Although the word product has broad connotations, product liability as an area of law is traditionally limited to products in the form of tangible personal property.

It is not uncommon for manufacturers to produce and distribute products that cause health issues or even death for consumers. When a company fails to disclose warnings about the possible health hazards or when it tries to minimize the dangers, the public can be harmed from defective materials. Samples of such Medical device and drug-related cases include:

  • Celebrex®
  • Avandia®
  • Hormone therapy
  • Birth control pills
  • Vioxx®
  • Oxycontin®
  • Botox®
  • Fosamax®
  • Dilantin®
  • IVC filters
  • Transvaginal mesh
  • Hip implants
  • Implantable defibrillators
  • Industrial-grade silicone breast implants
  • IV pumps

Toxic Tort & Environmental Cases

  • LNCC uses nursing ability and general science background in preparing cases with objectivity and careful analysis and works as a liaison with experts in a multidisciplinary team approach to this novel area of litigation.
  • Evaluate medical, school, military, occupational records, lifestyle habits to establish the validity of and extent injury.
  • Identify the specifics of exposure during the initial review of medical records.
  • Perform literature searches, access online databases to the regulatory and advisory agencies.
  • Try to prove or disprove the causal link between exposure and injury.
  • Compare post-exposure complaints to pre-existing medical problems.
  • Identify contributory negligence or alternative causation during medical record, including:
  • Review failure to seek timely treatment.
  • Failure to use available safety equipment.
  • Misusing the product.

Create chronologies that paginate medical records and cite pages in the summary that are user friendly for non-medical professionals, such as attorneys, insurance adjusters, and workers' compensation panel.

Assist with the selection of appropriate experts and interact as liaison with experts as the case develops.

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My Process

  • Discuss project parameters /deadlines with the attorney in charge
  • Send contract/fee schedule / and obtain a retainer
  • Create plaintiff fact sheet/Medical summary with the attorney ( including past medical history and co-morbidities)
  • Create LNC team (when required)/distribute cases /monitor progress with weekly meeting
  • Communicate with the attorney via email/phone with updates

This involves injuries from the release of toxins into the environment from the following:

  • Oil spills
  • Waste products from manufacturing processes
  • Radiation contamination
  • Hazardous chemicals in a workplace
  • Waste management and disposal
  • Pesticides
  • Lead poisoning

Defense Medical Exam (DME) Advocate/Witness

Don't leave your client alone; have a nurse advocate on your side at the DME. Your client may experience great stress and face a hostile doctor. Our experienced nurses guarantee the adherence to all civil codes of procedure and protect your client from revealing information that may impact the outcome of your case. Our services include:

  • Implement your requirements for the exam
  • Audiotape/exam
  • Prepare a report of what transpired
  • Review MD report
  • Rebuttal witness in court to Testify about discrepancies between what occurred in the exam versus what the physician claimed occurred

DME Page

Defense medical exams can be adversarial, stressful exams for the injured client. While DME is an allowed and appropriate discovery tool for defense, your r client has a right to a fair and reasonable exam. Protect your client – send a Nurse!

LNC’s are registered nurses’ professionals trained in assessment techniques and are respected for their professionalism by medical doctors. They can protect the client and assist attorneys in understanding the medical facts. An LNC will observe the medical exam and ensure it is properly confined to the medical issue at hand and not turn into a medical deposition.

Your client will have a knowledgeable and trained LNC available fact witness at trial. DME LNC advocates are available to attend DME with your client in New York/Connecticut / New Jersey area.

NY courts have ruled that an observer can attend and audio record DME exams. While some attorneys /paralegals attend exams, they can be considered Biased by a jury and are not familiar with medical tests or instruments/measurements used in an exam. They can have problems recalling/identifying important details of the examination when the doctor is asking questions at lightning speed. Nurses are trained in medical assessments/ jargon and are better prepared to report on what actually happened.

This involves injuries from the release of toxins into the environment from the following:

  • Call the client the night before to introduce themselves and create a plan to meet before the exam.
  • During the exam, the LNC will documents and audio record conversations.
  • Verify times related to the exam.
  • Document your client’s reactions to the exam process.
  • Document the physician's role and questions during the exam.
  • Document tests performed; photos taken during the exam.
  • Create a detailed, written report for an attorney within 48 hours.

(*Additional Allied support Service - The LNC can review the MD DME report for inconsistencies of facts and misstatement from client help attorney prepare settlement papers)

(*Additional Allied Support service- attend court as Independent Fact Witness to Questionable DME exam)

Protect your client – call LNCN and send a professional Nurse observer to their DME.
(914) 523-6556

My Process

  • Discuss project parameters/deadlines, client’s medical condition.
  • Send contract/fee schedule/and obtain DME retainer/flat fee Westchester.
  • Call client evening before the exam to introduce self/confirm meeting.
  • Attend DME exam/audio recording/transcribe notes of questions answers and testing.
  • Communicate via email/phone with updates on progress/questions.
  • Deliver DME report with requested information/analysis within 48 hours.
  • Available to review MD report for discrepancies (additional charge).
  • Available to be Fact Witness in court testifying to DME exam (additional charge).

Assist With Medical Fraud Cases

Our team will accomplish the tedious task of reviewing and organizing medically related data when reviewing medical health insurance and invalid billings.

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