Unbiased support for either plaintiff or defense attorneys. Screen or investigate cases for merit.
Who does your chronologies?
Do you have a nurse reviewing your records?
Are you spending a lot of your time researching injuries and health-related procedures?
Can you afford to use that time instead on the legal aspects of your case?
Whether you need a review for merit, report, chronology, summary, timeline, or demonstrative evidence, Krug Consulting has the expertise to critically analyze the healthcare information. We will help discover those critical missing pieces. We can decipher the verbiage into an easy to understand case analysis. Don’t risk missing a crucial piece of evidence in the medical records. Trust your future medical-legal consulting needs to us.
Areas of Practice
- Nursing Malpractice
- Personal Injury
- Product Liability
- Toxic Tort and Environment
- Worker’s Compensation and Workplace Injury
- Criminal
- Negligence
- Health, Illness or Injury-related Legal action
- Risk Management
- Nursing Home Abuse
- Fraud and Abuse
- Compliance and HIPAA
- Elder Law
Assess Medical Records & Analyze the Case
- Identify and review relevant medical records, hospital policies and procedures, and other essential documents and tangible items.
- Organize medical records in a format of your choosing. Summarize, translate, and interpret medical records.
- Case analysis of the claims within the legal action as it relates to the care provided.
- Write expert reports. A narrative report. Chronological summation of the medical records and events involved in the case. A timeline of the case’s issues.
- Review and refer to policy and practice issues related to nursing competency
- Prepare chronologies of the medical events involved in a case
- Screen cases for merit
- Define and evaluate SOC. Accurately assessing adherence to healthcare standards of practice.
- Define deviations from, and adherences to, the applicable standards of care
- Assess the alleged damages and/or injuries. Identify factors that caused or contributed to alleged damages and/or injuries. Evaluate causation and damages issues.
- Clearly explain the facts and histories of health-related cases. Translate volumes of medical records into a language meaningful to the attorney.
- Identify and recommend potential expert witnesses
- Identify issues of tampering with medical records.
- Develop written reports for use as study tools by the attorney
Assist with Discovery & Preparation for Court
- Prepare deposition and trial questions
- Prepare interrogatories
- Review, analyze and summarize depositions, including past testimony
- Review and collaborate on pain and suffering reports.
- Assemble witness and evidence lists for trial. Identify potential defendants. Preparation of interrogatories. Participate in client interviews
- Attend depositions, trials, review panels, and arbitration and mediation hearings
- Attend IMEs and DMEs. Or, write reports for the MD who attended.
- Assist in exhibit preparation.
- Participate in case management.
Define Applicable Standards of Care
- Identify and review relevant medical records, hospital policies and procedures, other essential documents, and tangible items
- Organize, tab, and paginate medical records
- Summarize and interpret medical records
- Prepare chronologies of the medical events involved in a case
- Screen cases for merit
- Define the applicable standards of care
- Define deviations from, and adherences to, the applicable standards of care
- Assess the alleged damages and/or injuries
- Identify causation issues, assess damages/injuries and identify contributing factors
- Identify and recommend potential expert witnesses
- Identify issues of tampering with the medical records
- Develop written reports for use as study tools by the attorney
Work with Experts & Other Witnesses
- Locate expert witnesses
- Communicate with potential testifying experts
- Analyze and compare expert witness reports and other work products. Deposition review.
- Determine when necessary, then locate and review additional clinically active, well-qualified experts in the specialty required for the case, including nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians, and other healthcare providers, who will give authoritative testimonies.
Healthcare Provider & Witness Liaison
- Interview plaintiff and defense clients, key witnesses, and experts
- Consult with healthcare providers
- Serve as liaison between the attorney and healthcare providers, testifying experts, parties, witnesses, and other consultants
Support the Attorney's Case
- Prepare in-depth nursing research studies and integrate the current literature, standards, and guidelines into the case analysis to provide a theoretical foundation for your case development. Conduct literature searches
- Analyze the validity of research studies
- Attend defense medical examinations (DMEs)
- Develop life care plans
Although headquartered in Florida, Krug Consulting Firm is ready to provide the above services throughout the entire United States.
