Some life care planners and vocational consultants rely on data from self-administered questionnaires completed by plaintiffs in personal injury litigation. Questions often arise about the validity and reliability of these data. In this blog post, we discuss a few self-administered questionnaires providers commonly use to assess psychological and neurocognitive conditions and their limitations.
Healthcare data on hospitals, physicians and other providers, properly analyzed, help litigators understand the economics and market dynamics of the healthcare sector. The information can establish causation and damages in a wide range of cases.
RPC has prepared a sample report explaining how we determine the maximum reasonable charges for past medical services and how we determine the range of reasonable value of past medical services.
When choosing damages experts for a qui tam case, it may help to understand the skill sets required to calculate damages and to testify at the intersection of medical, legal, and analytical issues. This blog will discuss the experience needed.
RPC provides Certificate of Need (CON) and litigation support services to healthcare providers and attorneys nationally.
A Look Back at RPC in 2021 and Forward to 2022 - From RPC President, Ronald T. Luke, JD, PhD
Reasonable Assumptions About Future Employment in Oil and Gas Industries. Will certain jobs in the oil and gas industry exist in the future in a pre-injury scenario?
This white paper, authored by Dr. Brian Piper, details volatility in price, rigs, production jobs and median earnings in the oil and gas field between 2000 and 2022, and the methods that should be used to calculate base wages and wage growth. The paper is applicable to injured parties working in drilling, extraction and [...]
Healthcare litigation often involves the analysis of large and complex databases of medical and billing records. These databases can contain valuable information relevant to the legal theory of the case - from data elements one might expect such as volume of patients and cost of services to less obvious but still potentially useful records such as the dates and times of patient appointments or the severity of the injury. In this blog, we will discuss how RPC can analyze large and complex databases of medical and billing records.
The Supreme Court of Texas (“SCOT”) has handed down decisions that better define the limits on a plaintiff’s liability to a defendant for medical expenses in a personal injury case. These decisions have also clarified a defendant’s right to reasonable discovery from a plaintiff’s medical providers to determine the damages for medical expenses. In this blog, we review what this means for plaintiff and defense attorneys.