Certified Legal Nurse Consultant Turns Thousands of Pages of Records Into “A Picture Worth a 1,000 Words”
When an attorney takes on a medical-related lawsuit, the attorney is confronted with enormous volumes of medical records crammed with esoteric terminology, inexplicable shorthand and indecipherable handwriting. Yet his client’s (plaintiff or defense) future depends on the attorney understanding those records and using them to support the case effectively. That’s why Certified Legal Nurse Consultant services are the healthiest thing that will ever happen to an attorney’s practice.
Total confidence in the services and support provided by a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant is especially important when taking on a formidable opponent, such as a major international corporation. Bob Young, an attorney with English, Lucas, Priest and Owsley, a major personal injury firm in south central Kentucky, faced this challenge when he accepted the case of Heather Norman.*
In 2001, the 12-year-old was severely burned in a motor vehicle accident that killed her mother and brother. “The truck’s side-saddle gasoline tanks exploded...