IRC Blog
Cases Are Won or Lost By the Expert’s Ability to Defend their Report
When a patient seeking treatment from a provider experiences an unfortunate injury due to the negligence and malpractice of the treating provider, they must carefully determine their next steps. They have the choice to file a complaint with the clinic and continue...
Helping your client understand the need for a Functional Capacity Evaluation
As your client progresses through their personal injury case, it’s common for them to experience heightened anxiety, treatment burnout, and mental and physical fatigue. Personal injury cases can be very complex so keeping your clients’ interest and enthusiasm can be...
Functional Capacity Evaluations confirm the diagnosis and quantify injury severity
In today’s ever-evolving personal injury world, insurance companies are also changing the way they relate diagnoses to an injury as well as how they equate those diagnoses to an impairment. What does this look like? Well, when someone gets injured in a car accident,...
Expert Reports are only as VALID as the expert writing them
When someone sustains an injury from a car accident and is seeking an attorney for representation, they will typically go through some degree of a screening process to determine what law firm or attorney is right for them and their case. This process may include...
The biggest mistake a life care planner can make that is death to their report
Throughout my career, I have reviewed many life care plans, medical cost projections, and future needs assessments. The conclusion that I have come to is that the majority of them do not have up-to-date future medical recommendations which lowers the validity of the...
The “RIGHT” life care planner can make or break your personal injury case
Have you ever faced the unfortunate situation where your “trusted” life care planner constructs a future needs report for your client only for you to realize that their report was not tailored toward the nuances of a personal injury case? This can be devastating to...