Acceleration and Exacerbation: addressing the terms when writing medico-legal reports
‘Acceleration’ is condoned by the courts as an unsophisticated and not unduly analytical approach to a common situation in personal…
Acceleration and Exacerbation: a definition
The terms ‘acceleration’ and ‘exacerbation’ are not medical or legal terms of art. They have no defined meaning, and indeed…
Causation in medico-legal reporting: injury, symptoms, effects and consequences
When addressing causation of damage, one area of confusion for medical experts (and unfortunately for many instructing lawyers) is the…
New evidence questions the effectiveness of shoulder pain surgery as a treatment
Shoulder pain is very common; approximately two-thirds of people experience it at some point during their life. One of the…
Using CBT as a recovery tool after a serious injury
Rehabilitation plays a pivotal role in the recovery process for a patient who has suffered a serious injury as a…
Why it’s essential to understand causation in medico-legal reporting
To succeed in a claim for damages for personal injury, and this is equally applicable to clinical negligence claims, it…
The evolution of medical negligence claims
If you are a lawyer who acts for clients in medical negligence claims, medical evidence is crucial to proving that…
The golden rule in medico-legal report writing
A sad truth! Discussions amongst lawyers about experts’ reports often come back to the failings of the expert and the…
MedCo proposal set out by government is fundamentally flawed, warns medico-legal reporting experts
MedCo is a system that facilitates the sourcing of medical reports in soft tissue injury claims brought under the Ministry…
A comprehensive guide to proving psychiatric injury
The law on claiming for a psychiatric injury isn’t as simple as making a claim for a physical personal injury….
Guide to credit control for medical experts
Agreeing to clear payment terms is essential to establishing an effective credit control system and improving cash flow. In all…
Why asking the right questions of your MRO could save your organisation millions in a post-GDPR world
Almost a year on from the GDPR deadline, David Stothard, managing director of MAPS Medical Reporting and a former personal injury…
The importance of brain injury rehabilitation for your clients
Serious and catastrophic brain injuries will have immediate and long-lasting effects on an injured person and their family. If your…
A guide to medical evidence in clinical negligence cases
Successful medical or clinical negligence cases are made against doctors or other clinical practitioners who have negligently caused an injury…
Obtaining the best medical evidence to support serious and catastrophic injury claims
Serious and catastrophic injuries have immediate and long-lasting effects on the injured person and their family. If your client has…