Legal Nurse Consulting | Expert Witness Locating | Medical Damages Consulting
SCHUTZ MEDICAL LEGAL CONSULTING
ANALYZING YOUR MEDICAL CASES TO REVEAL THE FACTS
What We Do
Services Provided
Types of Cases
SMLC provides high-quality and affordable behind-the-scenes legal nurse consultant support for legal teams nationwide—both plaintiff and defense, for all medical related cases. In addition to providing analysis, consulting opinions, and guidance throughout your case, we also analyze EMR Audit Trails, locate Expert Witnesses, and encompass the Medical Damages aspect—Medical Cost Projections and Medicare Set-Asides.
Having strong knowledge of the inner workings of the American healthcare system—derived from experience in the hospital setting (large metroplex to rural critical access), nursing homes, and the insurance industry— enables us the ability to have the bigger picture view.
The advantages of teaming with us at SMLC can save you a lot of time and money by determining if your case has merit to begin with, to bolstering your case, as well as preventing you from being blindsided.
Types of Cases
Services Provided
Types of Cases
We can assist with any medical related case, including but not limited to—
- Personal Injury
- Medical and Nursing Malpractice
- Workers' Compensation and Workplace Injury
- Wrongful Death
- Products Liability- including Pharmaceutical, Medical and Non-Medical Devices
- Toxic Torts and Environmental
- Infectious Disease Litigation
- Long-Term Care Litigation
- Elder Care and Abuse
- Employment Discrimination
- Drug and Alcohol Related Cases
- Criminal Cases
- Medical Cost Projections
- Life Care Planning
- Medicare Set-Asides
- Risk Management
Services Provided
Services Provided
Services Provided
SMLC provides >30 different services to Attorneys, Government Entities, Insurance Carriers, Third Party Administrators, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Companies, and Healthcare Systems. Some of our more popular services include—
- Screening cases for merit
- Define deviations from, and adherences to the medical and nursing standard of care and scope of practice
- Assess the alleged damages and injuries
- Identify factors that caused or contributed to the alleged damages/injuries
- Identify potential defendants
- Identify issues of tampering with the medical records
- Analyze EMR Audit Trails
- Prepare narrative summary reports and chronologies
- Conduct literature searches
- Locate and interface with Expert Witnesses
- Prepare Requests for Production
- Prepare Interrogatories
- Prepare Deposition and Trial Questions
- Develop Medical Cost Projections
- Develop Medicare Set-Asides
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