The Consequences of Failing to Disclose a Conflict of Interest.
An expert accepts instructions, examines the claimant and produces a report. Months later, it emerges that the expert has a professional or financial connection with...
An expert accepts instructions, examines the claimant and produces a report. Months later, it emerges that the expert has a professional or financial connection with...
Psychological injury claims often depend heavily on expert evidence because conditions such as post-traumatic stress...
After a road traffic accident, a claimant may describe shock, disturbed sleep, nervousness as a...
A claimant may report substantial improvement in pain, movement and everyday activity yet remain absent...
The report arrives at 86 pages. It contains the complete letter of instruction, an extensive...
An expert report is not frozen forever at the moment it is signed. New medical...
The claimant develops anxiety after a road traffic accident. Six weeks later, they lose their...
The claimant says that they were fit and well before the accident. The medical records...
The claimant has been nervous since the accident. They sleep badly before journeys, avoid the...
The chronology looks precise. Every consultation is in date order, previous symptoms have been separated...
The psychological injury is often absent from the first letter of claim. The claimant initially...
The most dangerous answer an expert gives is not always the wrong one. Sometimes it...