On the way to work

On a summer day in 2002, a 52-year-old waitress, Mrs. Johnson, was driving to work when her car was broad-sided on the passenger side. On impact, she hit her head against the driver's side window. Her car was totaled by the insurance company.

Mrs. Johnson incurred medical bills but was eventually released from the hospital and presumably gradually recovered from the accident. Our firm was retained to work on this case by the plaintiff's attorney to help in preparing the case for settlement with medical bills, lost wages, etc.

Upon digging into this case and putting it on a color-coded timeline, it became readily apparent that the plaintiff was seeking progressively more and more pain medication after she supposedly had recovered.

Because of our firm's digging, we were able to assist the attorney in seeking what was necessary for recovery from a drug addiction that had not been present prior to the accident. However, the accident had left the plaintiff with significant medical bills, no job, and an anticipation of pain returning after treatment. This leads to anxiety and depression and that becomes an easy step to developing an addiction.
Our thoroughness paid off . . . for the plaintiff and her attorney!

Let attorneys be attorneys...and nurses be nurses!

This almost fits into the familiar situation of an attorney who serves as his own attorney . . . he has a fool for a client. This was a very complex case of a non-compliant diabetic involved in an automobile accident and ended up being admitted to two hospitals with a long ambulance ride between them.

The plaintiff's attorney was a former nurse who strongly focused on proving emergency room doctors had caused a mental change in the patient, citing innumerable small bits of information. Our firm was hired by the defense attorney and shipped us three boxes of records. After sorting through the records and getting them into a usable order, our real work began. In looking at key pieces of information, including the Glasgow Coma Scale, and putting it on two time maps, we were able to show that all charges were unfounded.

However, we went further and alerted our defense attorney client that in reality significant actionable events had occurred that were not included in the lawsuit, allowing the defense attorney to step gingerly around those facts.
Our in-depth analysis paid off . . . and allowed the defense to avoid a disastrous situation.