We will review the medical records efficiently and provide insight into the legal aspects of your case. Our team has honed their skills to efficiently identify the key components of a case and provide you with easy-to-read, concise documents to utilize when arguing your case. Our consultants work alongside your legal team to enhance your cases. We work hard to save you time and money.

• Screen for Merit - We will conduct the initial litigation evaluation. This limits your time spent on non-meritorious cases, allowing you to put your resources towards cases that will progress and allocate your resourses accordingly.
• Liability Assessment- We will identify the key players in the argument as well as identify missing parties in the suit.
• Review, Organize, Summarize, Analyze - We will make sense of the voluminous medical records, providing chronological organization of the medical records, and analyz the event. This will save your team time to focus on the litigation portion of the case.
• Medical Record Tampering, Omission of Records, Record Duplication - Uncovering missteps in the permanent record can be vital to the case. We have reviewed thousands of medical charts and can quickly identify discrepancies. Understanding the point-of-care management and highlighting areas of concern can provide insight that can tip the scales in the case in your favor.

Report Writing

Written reports of the medical records can become your easy-to-navigate guide to the voluminous medical records in your case. Providing you and your team with concise documents and analysis of the medical aspects of the case will decrease your frustration and time burden when reviewing the facts of the case at hand. Hughes Legal Nurse Consulting can review the record, injury and damages and create a written document that meets your needs. Whether it is a short narrative you need or a more expanded chronology. We will work to suit the needs of your case.

A summary of the events in the medical record in a narrative format with a brief analysis of the medical mis-steps or adherences to standards that may be exactly what you need. A Chronological timeline dissects the events in the medical record and provides you with a detailed document that is clear and concise, but expands on the event. This document places events, clinical care, and analysis all neatly side by side in a chart. Utilizing this type of report is an easy-to-read document that highlights the events at a glance and will be helpful in the development of your legal argument as well as a great tool for experts, deposition, and trial.

Drafting Clinical Questions for deposition or responses to discovery is another avenue that HLNC can be an asset. Having a long history of clinical practice our legal nurse team will be able to assist with clinical questions that can highlight deviations from and adherences to the standards of care.

Educate

HLNC will analyze the medical record and identify the event, injury, and long term damages. We will determine the need for further discovery of additional records in relation to damages or pre-existing conditions. We will identify the four legal elements and we will break the information down to be best understood for the jury. Understanding the injury and the events to the fullest extent affords you and your legal team a complete picture of the case. We will provide opinion with validated authoritative text and point out the standards of care to argue the point. Which in turn will provide you with better chances for successful verdicts for your clients

Attorney liaison

Allow the Certified Legal Nurse Consultants at HLNC to be the point person for all the medical components of your case. Our team can be involved in the case at every level. We can analyze the medical records, provide insight surrounding the standards of care and/or pre-existing
conditions that can be pivotal in the case in written or verbal form. We can assist with the medical aspects of discovery; forms, missing documents, responses to clinical questions. We can locate and discuss the case with the expert witnesses and discuss with your legal team the valuable components of the case for the deposition of healthcare professionals. We can also assist with the courtroom preparation as needed. These services can decrease your management of the medical aspects of the case. This can increase the time you spend on legal aspects and ultimately increase your profitability.

Having the right expert to defend your position in the argument is crucial to the outcome of a case. HLNC has a nationwide network of top-level medical and health care specialists to best suit the needs of your case. We will locate the expert that is just right for your next case. Our legal nurses can provide expert nursing testimony or be a fact witness

• Research - Our team will conduct extensive research for authoritative material supporting your case as well as show any opposing literature. Our team will increase your medical library and enhance your depth of knowledge on the medical subject.
• Courtroom Work Up - Getting ready for deposition and trial is a team effort, HLNC is here to assist in a variety of ways. We will review deposition transcripts and develop a line of questioning that is pertinent to the medical and clinical scenario. We will aid in presenting demonstrative evidence that can speak to the jury in a clear manner.