| The Benefits of Legal Nurse Consultants • You save a great deal of time and money. • Insider knowledge and experience of hospital policies, procedures and events of the health care system. • Only a nurse can speak on behalf of a nurse about nursing issues or Nursing Standards of Care. • LNC’s save attorneys time and dollars when we point out cases that don’t have to be sent to a costly MD. When healthcare professionals and institutions are the focus of a claim or lawsuit: º The LNC has the special knowledge and ability to wade through thousands of tedious bits of information and uncover the crucial facts that determine a case for merit. º The LNC determines the appropriate, professional standards of care that apply to the situation. º The LNC analyzes the events of a claim and provides verbal or written reports on the standards of care and how they are applied to the claim. º LNC’s determine whether a claim has merit after a thorough review of the case. º Educating the attorney, judge, and jury, creating chronologies, timelines and interrogatories, attending Independent Medical Examinations, depositions, and finding expert witnesses are also within the expertise of the LNC. º With an LNC on your legal team, you have the medical expertise to uncover the one vital piece of information that turns your case into a multimillion dollar settlement. |
