This important damages’ expert can make or break your case! Evolution of a life care planner.

This important damages’ expert can make or break your case! Evolution of a life care planner.

by | Dec 1, 2022 | Expert Reports, Life Care Plan

Determining future medical care for your client has traditionally been calculated by either a certified life care planner or by the law firm itself. In the past, a life care planner was hired toward the end of the case’s lifecycle as a last-ditch effort to avoid trial.  

While that tactic may have been acceptable ten years ago, more recently, things have started to change. Attorneys are discovering that hiring a life care planner at the beginning of the case can help provide valuable insights throughout all phases to help get the case settled in an acceptable and swift manner.

This can be especially valuable when a life care planner is hired during the pre-litigation phase as their impact can help with their cases’ outcome tenfold. Think of it this way; If a case is like a ship, the life care planner is most effective as the helmsman or navigator. The skilled life care planner can bring an element of foresight to the pre-litigated case to help guide the ship for the attorney (the captain) throughout the route to settlement. Waiting to get the life care planner involved right before the ship docks at the destination would be a mistake, because while they can help dock the boat, chances are, without a navigation specialist, time and efficiency were wasted during the journey.  

Below are some very important values that the life care planner can bring to your pre-litigation phase:

Determining any missing records that need to be requested.
All too often I receive medical records to review for a case that are missing very important records that could reveal information that is crucial for a valid and reliable report. 

Helping in the preparation of a demand package.
Oftentimes, in the pre-litigation phase, future and marginal medical costs are estimated to present a rough understanding of future damages. A simple medical cost projection produced by the life care planner will certify that the future costs are in fact accurate, required, usual, reasonable, and customary. This report will save the law firm time and money, and significantly increase the chances of getting the case settled prior to litigation.

Helping to assist in identifying the appropriate experts needed:  
While working through medical records, I often come across gaps in care, archaic records, or inadequate practitioners that can make it difficult to provide a sound and accurate life care plan. The last thing you want to discover as an attorney walking into trial, is that your life care planner uncovered that all along your client was experiencing post-concussive / cognitive symptoms and they never saw a neuropsychologist for an evaluation. By getting a life care planner involved early-on in the process, they can help you avoid roadblocks and setbacks as you prepare your case. 

Educating attorneys on the proper questions to ask opposing experts:
No member of your team will understand the case better than your life care planner. You can bet that treating practitioners will be disconnected from the varying practitioner opinions of the case relative to their prescribed care for your client. A skilled life care planner is well versed in the collaboration of multiple specialties and can help determine the most appropriate questions to ask both your retained and opposing experts to help educate the jury of their findings.

As you can see, retaining a life care planner early on in your case, can improve the process and prevent last minute scrambling to put future medical care costs on paper. I can assure you that leaving a life care planner out of the process will prove to be a disservice to your client as many important items may be left undiscovered and therefore not taken into consideration.  

If you have a case that could benefit from the insights of a life care planner, reach out to one today. You’ll receive valuable information and insight throughout the process to support a more thorough case. 

Dr. Poppie has served the legal industry as a treating clinician, damages expert, and educator for over 20 years. He specializes in the evaluation and treatment of multi-trauma injuries related to motor vehicle collisions, standard of care and malpractice claims, and as a damages expert to help educate insurance companies and both plaintiff and defense counsel to provide a viable pathway for obtaining a fair settlement based on ethics, research, and evidence-based standards of care. 

As a certified life care planner, Dr. Poppie helps to guide attorneys through all phases of their case and projects accurate and reliable future medical costs. Evidence-based practice guidelines are utilized in all reports in order to ensure the needed criteria is met to withstand scrutiny within all legal jurisdictions. 

Dr. Poppie founded Injury Reporting Consultants to help attorneys and insurance companies resolve personal injury cases through medical analysis and reporting. Injury Reporting Consultants is a collaborative team of dedicated medical professionals using their knowledge to ensure fair outcomes for all parties in personal injury cases.

Recognized specialties include Motor Vehicle Collision, Life Care Planning, Medical Cost Projection, Functional Capacity Evaluation, Onsite Job Analysis, Functional Impairment and Disability, Workplace Injuries, Orthopedic Physical Therapy, Standards of Care, Current Best Practices, Physical Therapy Malpractice, Negligence, File and Medical Record Review, Improper Documentation, Expert Rebuttal Reports, and Expert Testimony.

If you have a client that you would like to discuss their need for an expert report, please contact me directly at 720-982-2000 or email me at: brad@injuryreportingconsultants.com

What do you get when you combine a certified life care planner with a doctor that has 20 years of experience treating personal injury patients?

What do you get when you combine a certified life care planner with a doctor that has 20 years of experience treating personal injury patients?

by | Nov 15, 2022 | Expert Reports

The answer to this question is simple. You get the only life care planner you can trust.  

When someone suffers an impairment they may be facing both a physical and functional abnormality, loss, or disfigurement, as well as the potential for psychological damage from their injury or incident. It must be determined whether these impairments will be permanent of resolve over time. 

If an impairment is likely to be permanent, one of the challenges of getting an adjustor to compensate a client’s future medical care is adaquately answering the adjustors’ question of “possibilty vs. probability of lifetime impairment”. 

How do you achieve this?  You must first prove to the insurance company that your client has suffered permanent impairment and that ongoing care will be needed to manage those impairments. While it’s relatively easy to prove the presence of physical impairments such as, decreased range of motion, weakness, muscle spasms; etc., the real difficulty lies in proving how these impairments will affect the patient throughout the rest of their life. It takes a very seasoned clinician with experience treating these types of impairments over the course of many years to have the ability to know and opine on how these impairments may affect the patient in the future. 

Typically, maximum medical improvement (MMI) or maximum rehabilitative potential (MRP) determinations will be made by medical and rehabilitative specialists during the patient’s treatment. After the patient has reached MMI or MRP, the remaining impairments are labeled as permanent. 

It’s common for opinions on “permanency of impairment” to vary among doctors and therefore conflicting opinions can arise in regards to what impairments are permanent and what future treatment, if any, those impairments will require throughout the rest of the patient’s life.  

So how do we know which doctors’ opinions are correct (or most plausible) for the continued or future care of the impairments? It really comes down to the doctor and their experience treating these impairments over the course of many years.  A doctor that has been in the trenches with these types of patients throughout their treatment, is the one that has the credibility to make these determinations. They can also back up their opinion with decades of clinical decision making processes, which in essence, provide the best insight into clinical outcomes. 

Who better to opine on the future care requirements of your client than a doctor life care planner who not only understands your client’s injuries, but also their response to treatment, diagnostic pathophysiology, and their impairment progression over time. Dr. Poppie has served the legal industry as a treating clinician, damages expert, and educator for over 20 years. He specializes in the evaluation and treatment of multi-trauma injuries related to motor vehicle collisions, standard of care and malpractice claims, and as a damages expert to help educate insurance companies and both plaintiff and defense counsel to provide a viable pathway for obtaining a fair settlement based on ethics, research, and evidence-based standards of care. 

As a certified doctor Life Care Planner, Dr. Poppie helps to guide attorneys through all phases of their case and documents impairments with accurate associated costs that are reliable in educating opposing sides as to the true extent of injury. Evidence-based practice guidelines are utilized in all reports in order to ensure the needed criteria is met to withstand scrutiny within all legal jurisdictions. 

Dr. Poppie founded Injury Reporting Consultants to help attorneys and insurance companies resolve personal injury cases through medical analysis and reporting. Injury Reporting Consultants is a collaborative team of dedicated medical professionals using their knowledge to ensure fair outcomes for all parties in personal injury cases.

Recognized specialties include Motor Vehicle Collision, Life Care Planning, Medical Cost Projection, Functional Capacity Evaluation, Onsite Job Analysis, Functional Impairment and Disability, Workplace Injuries, Orthopedic Physical Therapy, Standards of Care, Current Best Practices, Physical Therapy Malpractice, Negligence, File and Medical Record Review, Improper Documentation, Expert Rebuttal Reports, and Expert Testimony.

If you have a client that you would like to discuss their need for an expert report, please contact me directly at 720-982-2000 or email me at: brad@injuryreportingconsultants.com

A medical diagnosis is only as good as the functional assessment that backs it up

A medical diagnosis is only as good as the functional assessment that backs it up

by | Nov 1, 2022 | Expert Reports

Typically, a medical diagnosis will determine the nature or cause of a disease or impairment. 

Diagnosis may be clinical in origin based on signs, symptoms, imaging, or laboratory findings. These findings can also be found by physical examination, patient interview, medical history; etc.  It is so important to remember that a medical diagnosis is only as good as the functional assessment that backs it up! 

While the informational pieces listed above can certainly help an insurance adjuster or jury member understand what pathological condition the patient is suffering from, it by no means helps them understand the INTENSITY or MAGNITUDE of their suffering. A medical diagnosis alone does not clearly depict how a patient’s facet sprain, partial rotator cuff tear, or bulging lumbar disc impedes upon their ability to perform work related tasks, activities of daily living, or leisure activities. 

Here is where solely relying on a medical diagnosis alone provides insufficient information towards the true injuries your client is experiencing. Over the course of 20 years as a treating doctor, I have received numerous physician referrals with the diagnosis “lumbago” or “cervicalgia” written at the top.  These diagnoses are also known as “low back pain” and “neck pain”, respectively. While the patient may indeed be suffering from such pain and there may be a real and underlying pathological condition as to why they are suffering from them, a medical diagnosis alone does not provide enough impact to alarm the reader of the true functional effect the diagnosis has on the person.

Millions of people are walking around today with neck and lower back pain that have never been in a car accident, work-related incident, sports trauma incident; etc.  

Medical Diagnosis

Insurance adjusters are aware that while a diagnosis helps to decipher what is wrong with the patient medically, it doesn’t give any information from a functional standpoint as to how that diagnosis affects their ability to carry on a normal life. In terms of functional loss, I am referring to disability. 

In fact, according to the Guidelines to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment 5th edition, the American Medical Association defines, “ability and disability can and should involve non-medical practitioners in such determinations.” It was also stated that, “it is not possible for a physician, using medical information alone, to make reliable predictions about the ability of an individual to perform tasks or to meet functional demands…when functional ability is assessed by a standardized non-medical procedure in a vocational rehabilitation setting, the physician may have confidence in the determination.”

According to the Orthopedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association, a Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) is noted as a comprehensive battery of performance-based tests that are used commonly to determine one’s ability for work related tasks, activities of daily living, and leisure activities.  

As you can see, while it is important to have a medical diagnosis, the diagnosis itself is only as powerful and objectively reliable as the functional assessment that backs it up. In personal injury, the hardest aspect to prove to an insurance adjuster or jury member is how the person’s accident and subsequent diagnosis affect their daily life.  

This is why it is imperative to obtain a Functional Capacity Evaluation in concert with a medical diagnosis in order to not only confirm the medical diagnosis but to quantify its severity as well. A Functional Capacity Evaluation allows the insurance adjuster to understand why the patient is hurt and what they are or are not able to do because of their injuries and thus a viable pathway for settlement is created.

If you have a case that you feel as though you may need more objective data in order to properly educate an insurance adjuster or potential jury, please reach out to discuss your clients’ needs.  

Dr. Poppie has served the legal industry as a treating clinician, damages expert, and educator for over 20 years. He specializes in the evaluation and treatment of multi-trauma injuries related to motor vehicle collisions, standard of care and malpractice claims, and as a damages expert to help educate insurance companies and both plaintiff and defense counsel to provide a viable pathway for obtaining a fair settlement based on ethics, research, and evidence-based standards of care. 

As a certified Functional Capacity Evaluator, Dr. Poppie helps to guide attorneys through all phases of their case and documents functional objective data that is reliable in educating opposing sides as to the true extent of injury. Evidence-based practice guidelines are utilized in all reports in order to ensure the needed criteria is met to withstand scrutiny within all legal jurisdictions. 

Dr. Poppie founded Injury Reporting Consultants to help attorneys and insurance companies resolve personal injury cases through medical analysis and reporting. Injury Reporting Consultants is a collaborative team of dedicated medical professionals using their knowledge to ensure fair outcomes for all parties in personal injury cases.

Recognized specialties include Motor Vehicle Collision, Life Care Planning, Medical Cost Projection, Functional Capacity Evaluation, Onsite Job Analysis, Functional Impairment and Disability, Workplace Injuries, Orthopedic Physical Therapy, Standards of Care, Current Best Practices, Physical Therapy Malpractice, Negligence, File and Medical Record Review, Improper Documentation, Expert Rebuttal Reports, and Expert Testimony.

If you have a client that you would like to discuss their need for an expert report, please contact me directly at 720-982-2000 or email me at: brad@injuryreportingconsultants.com

Sincerely,

Dr. Brad Poppie, DPT, CLCP, CFCE, CSCS
Doctor of Physical Therapy | 
Certified Life Care Planner
 | Medical Cost Projection Specialist | 
Certified Functional Capacity Evaluator | 
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. 

Learn more at Dr. Poppie’s educational videos!

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The #1 Reason A Life Care Planner Can Make or Break Your Case!

The #1 Reason A Life Care Planner Can Make or Break Your Case!

by | Oct 6, 2022 | Expert Reports

Determining future medical care for your client has traditionally been calculated by either a certified life care planner or by the law firm itself. In the past, a life care planner was hired toward the end of the case’s lifecycle as a last-ditch effort to avoid trial.

While that tactic may have been acceptable ten years ago, more recently, things have started to change. Attorneys are discovering that hiring a life care planner at the beginning of the case can help provide valuable insights throughout all phases to help get the case settled in an acceptable and swift manner.

This can be especially valuable when a life care planner is hired during the pre-litigation phase as their impact can help with their cases’ outcome tenfold.

Think of it this way; If a case is like a ship, the life care planner is most effective as the helmsman or navigator. The skilled life care planner can bring an element of foresight to the pre-litigated case to help guide the ship for the attorney (the captain) throughout the route to settlement. Waiting to get the life care planner involved right before the ship docks at the destination would be a mistake, because while they can help dock the boat, chances are, without a navigation specialist, time and efficiency were wasted during the journey.  

Below are some very important values that the life care planner can bring to your pre-litigation phase:

Determining any missing records that need to be requested –
Countless times, when I am given records to review for a case, very important records are missing that would essentially reveal information that can be viable for producing a valid and reliable report.

Life Care Planner

Helping in the preparation of a demand package –
Oftentimes, in the pre-litigation phase, future medical costs are estimated or marginal costs are used to get a rough estimate of future damages.  A simple medical cost projection produced by the life care planner will certify that the future costs are in fact accurate, required, usual, reasonable, and customary. This report will essentially save the law firm time and money, and significantly increase the chances of getting the case settled prior to litigation.

Helping to assist in identifying the appropriate experts needed –
While working through medical records, many times there are gaps in care, archaic records, or inadequate practitioners that the client has seen that unfortunately make it difficult to provide a sound life care plan that is accurate.  The last thing you want to discover as an attorney is that in the 9th inning, your life care planner uncovered that all along your client was experiencing post-concussive / cognitive symptoms and they never saw a neuropsychologist for an evaluation. By getting a life care planner involved early in the process, they can certainly help you avoid roadblocks and setbacks as you prepare your case.

Educating attorneys on the proper questions to ask opposing experts: No member of your team will understand the case better than your life care planner.  You can bet that there will be a disconnect between the treating practitioners in regards to them essentially working as a well-oiled engine towards the care of your client.  The skilled life care planner is well versed in the collaboration of multiple specialties and can help you determine the most appropriate questions to ask both your retained experts as well as opposing experts in order to help educate the jury.

As you can see, retaining a life care planner early on in your case, can improve the process and prevent last-minute scrambling to put future medical care costs on paper. I can assure you that leaving a life care planner out of the process will prove to be a disservice to your client as many important items may be left undiscovered and therefore not taken into consideration.

If you have a case that could benefit from the insights of a life care planner, reach out to one today. You’ll receive valuable information and insight throughout the process to support a more thorough case.

Dr. Poppie has served the legal industry as a treating clinician, damages expert, and educator for over 20 years. He specializes in the evaluation and treatment of multi-trauma injuries related to motor vehicle collisions, standard of care and malpractice claims, and as a damages expert to help educate insurance companies and both plaintiff and defense counsel to provide a viable pathway for obtaining a fair settlement based on ethics, research, and evidence-based standards of care. 

As a certified life care planner, Dr. Poppie helps to guide attorneys through all phases of their case and projects accurate and reliable future medical costs. Evidence-based practice guidelines are utilized in all reports in order to ensure the needed criteria is met to withstand scrutiny within all legal jurisdictions. 

Dr. Poppie founded Injury Reporting Consultants to help attorneys and insurance companies resolve personal injury cases through medical analysis and reporting. Injury Reporting Consultants is a collaborative team of dedicated medical professionals using their knowledge to ensure fair outcomes for all parties in personal injury cases.

Recognized specialties include Motor Vehicle Collision, Life Care Planning, Medical Cost Projection, Functional Capacity Evaluation, Onsite Job Analysis, Functional Impairment and Disability, Workplace Injuries, Orthopedic Physical Therapy, Standards of Care, Current Best Practices, Physical Therapy Malpractice, Negligence, File and Medical Record Review, Improper Documentation, Expert Rebuttal Reports, and Expert Testimony

If you have a client that you would like to discuss their need for an expert report, please contact me directly at 720-982-2000 or email me at: brad@injuryreportingconsultants.com

Sincerely,

Dr. Brad Poppie, DPT, CLCP, CFCE, CSCS
Doctor of Physical Therapy | 
Certified Life Care Planner
 | Medical Cost Projection Specialist | 
Certified Functional Capacity Evaluator | 
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. 

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Is Your Client Faking Their Injuries?

Is Your Client Faking Their Injuries?

by | Sep 13, 2022 | Expert Reports

Wondering if your client is faking their injuries is probably one of the most daunting and upsetting thoughts that an attorney can have after their client retains them.

After all, the attorney wants to trust their client and believe that the severity of their injuries are not exaggerated. Any misinterpretation of a client’s injuries can put the case in jeopardy of losing in trial which can be catastrophic for both the client and attorney.

So, how do you know if your client is telling the truth and portraying a true representation of their actual complaints of pain and the impairments that go along with them? While it is difficult for a client to “fool” multiple practitioners or even their attorney, it can and does happen.

While we as practitioners have tools in our tool belt to help navigate our evaluations in order to determine whether someone is a symptom magnifier and or a malingerer, these are not fail-safe measures to ensure the validity of the patient’s pain complaints or corresponding impairments.

There is one extensive evaluation, however, that has high validity, objectivity, and reliability to help determine the accuracy of a patient’s injury. This evaluation is the Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE). In essence, the FCE is designed to confirm the diagnosis and quantify the severity of their injuries or impairments.

The FCE is a trial-tested evaluation that has been around for decades. It is the industry standard for how we document an individual’s impairments and disabilities and the effects of the injury on the patient’s life; more specifically, their ability to perform work related tasks, activities of daily living, and leisure activities. This 4-hour test has built-in validity and reliability measures that detect if a client is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the evaluator.

Any symptom magnification or malingering tactics tried by the client will be discovered and documented to determine the true nature of the client’s injury and if they presented truthfully by giving a full effort during the testing. This evaluation is the ONLY testing measure that we as clinicians have to accurately determine if the client’s subjective complaints are consistent with objective measures.

If you have a client where you are unsure of the accuracy of their diagnosis or are skeptical of their subjective pain complaints, a Functional Capacity Evaluation is the only evaluation that will confirm the severity of their complaints and impairments.

Faking their injuries

Dr. Poppie has served the legal industry as a treating clinician, damages expert, and educator for over 20 years. He specializes in the evaluation and treatment of multi-trauma injuries related to motor vehicle collisions, standard of care, and malpractice claims, and as a damages expert helps educate insurance companies and both plaintiff and defense counsel to provide a viable pathway for obtaining a fair settlement based on ethics, research, and evidence-based standards of care.

As a certified functional capacity evaluator, Dr. Poppie helps to document the true objective measurements of how the impairments and disabilities that the client is suffering from the impact their ability to perform work-related tasks, activities of daily living, and leisure activities in an easy-to-understand method for the insurance company or jury members.

Dr. Poppie founded Injury Reporting Consultants to help attorneys and insurance companies resolve personal injury cases through medical analysis and reporting. Injury Reporting Consultants is a collaborative team of dedicated medical professionals using their knowledge to ensure fair outcomes for all parties in personal injury cases.

Recognized specialties include Motor Vehicle Collision, Life Care Planning, Medical Cost Projection, Functional Capacity Evaluation, Onsite Job Analysis, Functional Impairment, and Disability, Workplace Injuries, Orthopedic Physical Therapy, Standards of Care, Current Best Practices, Physical Therapy Malpractice, Negligence, File and Medical Record Review, Improper Documentation, Expert Rebuttal Reports, and Expert Testimony.

If you have a client that you would like to discuss their need for an expert report, please contact me directly at 720-982-2000 or email me at: brad@injuryreportingconsultants.com

Sincerely,

Dr. Brad Poppie, DPT, CLCP, CFCE, CSCS
Doctor of Physical Therapy | Certified Life Care Planner | Medical Cost Projection Specialist | Certified Functional Capacity Evaluator | Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. 

Should the MD or PT give return to work recommendations?

Should the MD or PT give return to work recommendations?

by | Jun 8, 2022 | Expert Reports

In a lot of injury cases there can be confusion about whether or not a medical physician or a doctor of physical therapy should be giving the green light for a patient to return to work full time, part time, or with / without restrictions.

Usually, a medical exam is a general health screen consisting of range of motion measurements, strength testing, neurologic assessments, and muscular palpation. The physician or physician assistant typically see the patient every couple months for checkups throughout their case and these follow up appointments typically last just a few minutes. While these evaluative measures are helpful in determining what impairments an individual may be suffering from due to their collision, they do not paint a definitive picture of those impairments and how they affect the persons’ ability to perform work related activities.

On the other hand, the physical therapist will typically be working with the patient in the trenches 2-3 times per week for 2-3 months on average. The visits last anywhere from 30 minutes to 1 hour. During this time, the therapist is able to see how the patient is responding to functional activities and can often find other unidentified impairments that may be prohibiting optimal recovery from an injury.

Understanding this, which of these two practitioners would you ask if it were you going back to work?

This topic is further discussed by the American Medical Association who have determined that “evaluation of “ability and disability” can and should involve non-medical practitioners in such determinations: In general, “it is not possible for a physician, using medical information alone, to make reliable predictions about the ability of an individual to perform tasks or to meet functional demands…when functional ability is assessed by a standardized non-medical procedure in a vocational rehabilitation setting, the physician may have confidence in the determination.” — Guidelines to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (2nd Edition)

The Association then goes on to emphasize that
“impairment is defined as “a loss, loss of use, or derangement of any body part, organ system, or organ function.” Disability (activity limitation) is defined as “an alteration of an individual’s capacity to meet personal, social, or occupational demands because of impairment.” Impairment means an alteration of an individual’s health status that is assessed by medical means; disability, which is assessed by non-medical means, means an alteration of an individual’s capacity to meet personal, social, or occupational demands.” — Guidelines to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (3rd and 5th Editions)

According to the Guidelines to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (6th Edition), “Most physicians are not trained in assessing the full array of human functional activities and participations that are required for comprehensive disability determinations.” “The relationship between impairment and disability remains both complex and difficult, if not impossible, to predict…the same level of injury is in no way predictive of an affected individual’s ability to participate in major life functions (including work).” 

“Physicians are concerned with the degree of medical impairment, not with the contractual determination regarding whether the individual is “disabled.” Similarly, physicians are not typically trained in making occupational determinations. It is better to state a reasonable restriction and leave the determination as to whether it prevents the performance of a main duty to the appropriate resource.” — AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Work ability and Return to Work (2nd Edition) 2011. 

When physical therapists who are also certified functional capacity evaluators evaluate the client, a proper return to work schedule can safely be determined.  According to the Orthopedic Section of the American Physical Therapy Association, “A Functional Capacity Evaluation (FCE) is a comprehensive battery of performance based tests that are used commonly to determine ability for work, activities of daily living, or leisure activities.”  

The medical physician and doctor of physical therapy can and should work in concert together. By having the medical physician determine the clients’ impairments they can give a proper diagnosis. By having the doctor of physical therapy actually confirm the diagnosis and quantify its severity through a skilled functional capacity evaluation, you can be confident that the client’s impairments and disabilities have been properly documented as well as how they impact someone’s livelihood.  

Dr. Poppie has served the legal industry as a treating clinician, damages expert, and educator for over 20 years. He specializes in the evaluation and treatment of multi-trauma injuries related to motor vehicle collisions, standard of care and malpractice claims, and as a damages expert to help educate insurance companies and both plaintiff and defense counsel to provide a viable pathway for obtaining a fair settlement based on ethics, research, and evidence-based standards of care. 

As a certified functional capacity evaluator, Dr. Poppie helps to document the true objective measurements of how the impairments and disabilities that the client is suffering from impact their ability to perform work related tasks, activities of daily living, and leisure activities in an easy to understand method for the insurance company or jury members. 

Dr. Poppie founded Injury Reporting Consultants to help attorneys and insurance companies resolve personal injury cases through medical analysis and reporting. Injury Reporting Consultants is a collaborative team of dedicated medical professionals using their knowledge to ensure fair outcomes for all parties in personal injury cases.

Recognized specialties include Motor Vehicle Collision, Life Care Planning, Medical Cost Projection, Functional Capacity Evaluation, Onsite Job Analysis, Functional Impairment and Disability, Workplace Injuries, Orthopedic Physical Therapy, Standards of Care, Current Best Practices, Physical Therapy Malpractice, Negligence, File and Medical Record Review, Improper Documentation, Expert Rebuttal Reports, and Expert Testimony.

If you have a client that you would like to discuss their need for an expert report, please contact me directly at 720-982-2000 or email me at: brad@injuryreportingconsultants.com

Sincerely,

Dr. Brad Poppie, DPT, CLCP, CFCE, CSCS
Doctor of Physical Therapy
Certified Life Care Planner
Medical Cost Projection Specialist
Certified Functional Capacity Evaluator
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist