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Month: February 2009

Cross examination of the hired defense medical examiner

Cross examination of the hired defense medical examiner

We are often faced with the challenge of examining a physician who has been hired by the defense to examine our client. These witnesses are usually selected because they can be counted on to say the plaintiff isn’t injured or isn’t injured as seriously as claimed. In addition, they are often experienced in testifying and represent a difficult kind of witness to cross examine. Here is a simple basic way to approach these kinds of witnesses. A. BIAS Since you…

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Pain – what does it really mean?

Pain – what does it really mean?

Have you thought what pain really means? When our clients talk about their pain what do we understand about what they are going through? Here are fewbrief ideas about what pain really is: Nazis: when nazis wanted a man to talk they didn’t take his house, or his investment portfolio or confiscate his pension- they took his fingernails Sacrifice anything to avoid pain: We are willing to sacrifice anything to avoid pain. A mother would hock her wedding ring to…

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Focusing your ideas in preparing a case

Focusing your ideas in preparing a case

In preparing for jury selection in a medical products liability case, I started by creating an outline of things I wanted to keep in mind.I did this early in the preparation process in order to keep me focused.My goal was to keep the concepts brief and on a single sheet of paper. Here is the start of the outline which was then refined as the preparation progressed. This isoffered as simply an example of how one can do this in…

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