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Legal nurse consultants often have questions about billable time. Billable time is generally considered work that is done to review or generate reports on a file. This includes organizing records, indexing, and reviewing records. It includes research on a medical issue and preparing a report. Phone calls to the client/attorney are billable. The time you spend creating an invoice is not billable time, as that is part of your overhead.
Billable time may be calculated in 6 minute, 10 minute or 15 minute increments. LNCs typically round …

Driven by the expense of health care and the media coverage of the dollar amounts of medical malpractice insurance paid by physicians and other health care practitioners, the environment for individuals who have legitimate cases is getting tougher.  This combined with highly publicized cases that paint the picture of plaintiffs as “con artists” can mean that patients who are fully within their rights to receive damages that will cover their costs of living as functional a life as possible, increasingly may not be awarded.
These facts make consultation with a Nurse …

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Have you been involved in the litigation of a personal injury or medical malpractice case?  Are you pursuing compensation through our legal system for an injury you sustained?  If the answer is yes, this post is for you.  
So, what exactly is a deposition?  A deposition is a process of interviews that allows both sides of the case to “discover” what will likely affect the case based on the testimony of the witnesses, including potential experts.  Depositions will usually take place in an attorney’s office, in the conference room with …

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In an article by attorney Robert Ambrogi, featured at IMS ExpertServices, he asks, “Litigation is recession proof-but are experts?”  As any good attorney would, he states that the answer depends on whom you ask.  Ambrogi says that attorneys generally say that the economy has no real bearing on whether they hire an expert or not.  However, they may be watching the costs associated with experts more closely.
The Litigation Trends Survey (Published in October by Fulbright & Jaworski) finds confirmation that litigation is indeed recession proof.  The …