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In a typical auto accident case a client can come to a lawyer and explain his or her case. The client can tell the lawyer that they were hurt when a car ran a stop sign and hit them. The lawyer can then file the case and proceed to trial. At trial the law allows the client to explain to the jury that the defendant ran a stop sign, and the law allows the jury to understand that running a stop sign is negligent. In a medical malpractice case the injured person is not allowed to do that – to explain to the jury that a doctor ran a medical stop sign. The law requires that experts be used.
Over the years the law has been made more stringent in this regard, requiring that the expert be in a sufficiently similar specialty, engaged in a specific type of practice, and been doing so for a specified period of time. In many cases these provisions require the use of several experts in multiple specialties in order to prove a claim.
At Kelley Uustal every malpractice case we file is reviewed by a medical expert. We work with some of the finest medical minds in the world, and deal with physician experts from institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Stanford, and UCLA. Every case gets the finest medical expert review as well as the finest legal service.