https://caseveritas.com Clinical insights on medical malpractice case screening and evaluation en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT https://caseveritas.com/blog/affidavit-of-merit-requirements-pre-litigation-screening https://caseveritas.com/blog/affidavit-of-merit-requirements-pre-litigation-screening Many states require a physician to certify the merit of a medical malpractice claim before or shortly after filing. Here is how independent pre-litigation screening supports that process. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT affidavit of merit https://caseveritas.com/blog/why-ai-cannot-screen-your-medical-malpractice-case https://caseveritas.com/blog/why-ai-cannot-screen-your-medical-malpractice-case AI tools identify what happened. They cannot tell you whether it should have happened differently. The standard of care question requires clinical judgment, not algorithms. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical case screening https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-real-math-behind-premature-expert-retention https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-real-math-behind-premature-expert-retention Medical expert witnesses charge between $350 and $500 per hour for file review. The median upfront retainer is $2,000. And in the majority of cases they review, they find no basis for a claim. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT expert witness retainer cost https://caseveritas.com/blog/why-two-independent-clinicians-produce-better-assessments https://caseveritas.com/blog/why-two-independent-clinicians-produce-better-assessments There is a well-documented problem in clinical diagnosis that medical literature calls anchoring bias. Most screening services do nothing to protect against it. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT dual clinician case review https://caseveritas.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-medical-malpractice-case-merit https://caseveritas.com/blog/how-to-evaluate-medical-malpractice-case-merit The single most expensive mistake in plaintiff-side medical malpractice practice is committing to a case before the fundamental clinical questions have been answered. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice case merit https://caseveritas.com/blog/what-a-board-certified-physician-looks-for https://caseveritas.com/blog/what-a-board-certified-physician-looks-for When an attorney describes a clinical scenario, the legal instinct is to evaluate the narrative. A clinical read starts somewhere else entirely. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical case screening https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-best-plaintiff-attorneys-know-what-they-do-not-know https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-best-plaintiff-attorneys-know-what-they-do-not-know The best plaintiff attorneys I know share one trait. They are brutally honest with themselves about what they do not know. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice intake https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-competitive-advantage-nobody-talks-about https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-competitive-advantage-nobody-talks-about The plaintiff firm down the road from you is screening cases before they retain experts. They are not going to tell you about it. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT plaintiff attorney competitive advantage https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-question-that-should-cost-1000-but-usually-costs-12000 https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-question-that-should-cost-1000-but-usually-costs-12000 You are going to spend money this year on a case that has no clinical foundation. Maybe you already have. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT expert witness cost https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-cases-most-likely-to-collapse https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-cases-most-likely-to-collapse The cases most likely to collapse are not the ones with thin facts. They are the ones with the most emotionally compelling intakes. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice intake https://caseveritas.com/blog/what-a-physician-looks-for-in-the-first-fifteen-minutes https://caseveritas.com/blog/what-a-physician-looks-for-in-the-first-fifteen-minutes Here is the clinical read that happens in the first fifteen minutes of reviewing a medical malpractice chart. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical record review https://caseveritas.com/blog/how-to-handle-statute-pressure https://caseveritas.com/blog/how-to-handle-statute-pressure You have a case with four months left on the statute. The records are voluminous. What do you do? Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT statute of limitations https://caseveritas.com/blog/every-objection-to-pre-litigation-screening-answered https://caseveritas.com/blog/every-objection-to-pre-litigation-screening-answered Every objection attorneys raise to pre-litigation screening has an answer. Here they are. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT case screening objections https://caseveritas.com/blog/month-twelve-into-a-case-that-was-never-going-to-file https://caseveritas.com/blog/month-twelve-into-a-case-that-was-never-going-to-file Somewhere in your market right now, a plaintiff attorney is twelve months into a case that was never going to file. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice case development https://caseveritas.com/blog/legal-intuition-is-not-a-clinical-assessment https://caseveritas.com/blog/legal-intuition-is-not-a-clinical-assessment You are not qualified to decide if a medical malpractice case has merit. Neither is anyone else, without reviewing the chart. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-deviation-was-on-page-412 https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-deviation-was-on-page-412 The deviation was on page 412. Not in the physician notes. Not in the discharge summary. Not anywhere an attorney reading for the highlights would find it. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical record review https://caseveritas.com/blog/run-the-number-on-non-filing-cases https://caseveritas.com/blog/run-the-number-on-non-filing-cases Last year you spent money on a case that did not file. You know the number. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice costs https://caseveritas.com/blog/personal-injury-attorney-who-takes-med-mal-cases https://caseveritas.com/blog/personal-injury-attorney-who-takes-med-mal-cases This post is for the attorney who is really good at personal injury and occasionally takes a medical malpractice case because the intake looked too strong to pass on. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT personal injury attorney https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-call-nobody-wants-to-make https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-call-nobody-wants-to-make There is a version of the hard call that happens at month two. Then there is the version that happens at month eighteen. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice practice https://caseveritas.com/blog/that-feeling-at-9pm-when-you-know-something-is-wrong https://caseveritas.com/blog/that-feeling-at-9pm-when-you-know-something-is-wrong You know the feeling. You are reviewing records at 9pm. Something is wrong in this chart. You cannot articulate it clinically but you cannot shake the feeling. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice https://caseveritas.com/blog/you-already-know-you-need-clinical-screening https://caseveritas.com/blog/you-already-know-you-need-clinical-screening Here is the truth about pre-litigation clinical screening that nobody says plainly. You already know you need it. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT pre-litigation screening https://caseveritas.com/blog/what-a-bad-medical-malpractice-case-actually-costs https://caseveritas.com/blog/what-a-bad-medical-malpractice-case-actually-costs Let us talk about what a bad med mal case actually costs a plaintiff attorney. Not the expert fee. The whole number. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice costs https://caseveritas.com/blog/pre-litigation-screening-for-solo-and-small-firms https://caseveritas.com/blog/pre-litigation-screening-for-solo-and-small-firms Large plaintiff firms have in-house nurses on staff. Solo attorneys and small firms do not have that. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT solo attorney https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-clinical-checklist-before-you-retain-anyone https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-clinical-checklist-before-you-retain-anyone Here is the clinical checklist that should be run on every potential medical malpractice case before expert retention is considered. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice checklist https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-case-that-built-case-veritas https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-case-that-built-case-veritas Early in this work, an attorney called after he had already retained a different expert. He had spent $11,000. The expert said the case was defensible. Something felt off. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT Case Veritas founding https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-question-that-determines-viability https://caseveritas.com/blog/the-question-that-determines-viability There is one question that determines whether most medical malpractice cases are viable. Not what went wrong. What was knowable at the time. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT standard of care https://caseveritas.com/blog/emergency-medicine-cases-misread-at-intake https://caseveritas.com/blog/emergency-medicine-cases-misread-at-intake Emergency medicine cases are the cases most likely to be misread at intake. In both directions. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT emergency medicine malpractice https://caseveritas.com/blog/five-things-plaintiff-attorneys-learn-after-first-bad-retain https://caseveritas.com/blog/five-things-plaintiff-attorneys-learn-after-first-bad-retain Five things plaintiff attorneys learn after their first bad med mal retain. Usually the expensive way. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT medical malpractice https://caseveritas.com/blog/what-case-veritas-offers-and-what-it-costs https://caseveritas.com/blog/what-case-veritas-offers-and-what-it-costs Here is exactly what is offered and what it costs. Dual review by a board-certified emergency physician and a licensed legal nurse consultant. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:59:33 GMT Case Veritas pricing https://caseveritas.com/blog/obstetric-malpractice-case-screening https://caseveritas.com/blog/obstetric-malpractice-case-screening Obstetric malpractice cases are among the most emotionally charged intakes in plaintiff practice. The intake narrative is almost always compelling. The clinical picture is almost always complicated. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT obstetric malpractice https://caseveritas.com/blog/standard-of-care-vs-bad-outcome https://caseveritas.com/blog/standard-of-care-vs-bad-outcome There is one distinction in medical malpractice litigation that determines whether a case exists before any other analysis matters. It is the distinction between a bad outcome and a deviation from the standard of care. Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT standard of care