Medical expert strategy is the process of deciding which clinical questions a case must answer, which specialties are qualified to answer them, and when each expert should be retained. Getting the sequence right can reduce unnecessary retention and strengthen the opinions that matter.
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A life care plan is not a substitute for a treating physician's judgment. It is a synthesis of it. Here is how a defensible plan should use treating and consulting physicians, and where the CLCP's own methodology takes over.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
Most life care plans are not attacked on their bottom-line number. They are attacked on how that number was built. Here are the vulnerabilities defense counsel actually target, and how the methodology behind a plan should be built to withstand them.
Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP & Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP ·
Whether you are evaluating the opposing side's life care plan or having your own reviewed before deposition, a critique and a rebuttal are asking different questions. Here is what a rigorous review of either document should actually examine.
Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP & Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP ·
Most plaintiff attorneys track their hard case costs carefully. What most do not track is what their intake process costs them annually in cases that should never have been taken. That number is almost always significantly larger than it would be with a different intake structure.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
Life care planning standards contemplate collaboration with qualified professionals when recommendations extend beyond the planner's scope. Here is what that means for specialist-supported life care plans.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP ·
Most attorneys think of pre-litigation case screening as a gate. That understates what a clinical screening finding actually gives you when the answer is proceed. A well-executed screening is a strategic document that changes every conversation that follows.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
Pre-litigation case screening and retained expert witness work are not interchangeable. They are sequential. Doing them in the wrong order is one of the most expensive mistakes in plaintiff med mal practice.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP ·
Retaining a testifying expert to find out whether a case has merit is often the most expensive way to get that answer. Expert review rates and retainers vary widely by specialty and market, and when the review finds no viable case, those fees are typically unrecoverable on a contingency matter.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP
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 CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP
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 CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP
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 CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP
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 CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP
Five things plaintiff attorneys learn after their first bad med mal retain. Usually the expensive way.
Dr. Andrew Tisser, DO MBA CPE CLCP & Gina Marra, RN LCSW LNC CLCP
Talk it through with the physician and nurse clinicians who would work the file.