HOW MD FOR ACCURACY SUPPORTS THE ENTIRE RISK EVENT LIFECYCLE
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MD For Accuracy helps insurers, risk managers, and defense teams navigate complex medical legal cases with clarity, precision, and cost-effectiveness.
MD For Accuracy is much more than an expert witness source—it is a strategic partner that strengthens every stage of the risk response process.
How we differ
The Traditional Approach
Reactive, segmented, attorney-driven
Fragmented expert input
Costly trial-and-error expert selection
Weak post-trial analysis
The MD For Accuracy Approach
Proactive, integrated, physician-led
Coordinated, team-based expertise
Strategic, right-expert-first guidance
Actionable feedback and system improvement
Early Assessment of Medical and Legal Risk
MD For Accuracy performs rapid case triage by reviewing the facts, medical records, and sequence of care to:
• Evaluate whether patient harm may lead to successful litigation from a medical perspective
• Clarify the medical narrative and timeline
• Assess the likelihood of medically credible defensibility
✓Delivers an unbiased, physician-driven risk analysis—before legal costs accrue.
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Early Assessment of Patient Harm
A physician expert and team members, which may include non-physician experts, evaluates:
• What actual harm occurred (vs. expected outcomes)
• The relationship between care and harm
• Whether harm was preventable or likely an unfortunate unavoidable outcome
• Review documentation to determine clinical condition and projected long-term implications
• Life Expectancy / Life Care Planning Review to provide input or second opinions on life care plans, costs, and appropriateness of proposed treatments
• Independent Medical Exams
✓Supports claims teams in assessing potential exposure and in communicating effectively with patients, families, and insurers.
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Determining Whether the Standard of Care Was Breached
MD For Accuracy’s subspecialists review the care through the lens of current standards:
• Identify deviations in clinical judgment or technical execution
• Differentiate between poor outcomes and negligence
• Provide early, defensible opinions on breach (or not)
✓Allows early decision-making about settlement, disclosure, or litigation.
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Mock Trial Preparation and Evaluation
MD For Accuracy:
• Helps design and review medical scenarios for mock trials
• Provides expert witnesses for simulated cross-examination
• Assists with post-mock trial debriefs on how medical arguments were perceived - and how perceptions can be improved
✓Improves strategic alignment between legal messaging and medical truth.
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Pre-Discovery Recommendations on Expert Categories
MD For Accuracy can provide consulting or testifying expert witnesses on request. We can assist in the strategic process of retaining experts by:
• Advising on the types of specialists needed (e.g., neurointerventional radiologist vs. general neurologist)
• Helping prioritize expert categories to avoid over-hiring
✓Saves money and ensures the right voices are on the case.
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Vetting Proposed Experts
MD For Accuracy evaluates the credentials, experience, and suitability of proposed experts:
• Reviews past testimony, reports, and public records
• Identifies potential credibility gaps or alignment issues
✓Prevents problems with underqualified or poorly matched experts.
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Preparing Experts for Depositions
MD For Accuracy works with disclosed experts to:
• Help them more effectively convey their opinions
• Anticipate likely opposing counsel challenges
• Enhance delivery and composure in deposition or trial settings through structured mock questioning and feedback
✓Reduces risk of surprise or underperformance in deposition.
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Rehabilitation of Experts Whose Depositions Did Not Go Well
When expert testimony falters, MD For Accuracy can:
• Review deposition transcripts
• Identify inconsistencies or messaging weaknesses
• Help experts reframe or clarify their positions without contradiction
✓Preserves credibility and strengthens trial readiness.
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Trial Preparation
As trial nears, MD For Accuracy supports:
• Expert readiness for cross-examination
• Final narrative development
• Coordination of expert themes with overall defense strategy
• Provide medical literature support
✓Ensures medical facts are clearly and persuasively presented.
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Trial Demonstratives Preparation
• Assists with the design and review of medical illustrations, timelines, and anatomical visuals
• Helps locate and obtain effective demonstratives
• Ensures demonstratives are clinically accurate, jury-accessible, and provide support for evidentiary admission
✓Boosts juror understanding and persuasiveness of expert testimony.
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Report Writing
Whether for internal use, disclosure, or litigation:
• MD For Accuracy helps research, draft or edit expert reports
• Ensures reports are well-supported, clear, and in line with admissibility standards
✓Avoids vague or easily challenged conclusions.
Helping Experts Present Opinions More Effectively
Through practice and strategy sessions, MD For Accuracy:
• Refines expert communication techniques
• Helps with analogies, simplification, and tone
• Aligns testimony with courtroom expectations
✓Improves jury engagement and expert credibility.
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Assistance During Trial
During trial, MD For Accuracy offers:
• Real-time consultation on medical issues as they arise
• Support in responding to unexpected testimony or new evidence
• Second-chair physician presence (in-person or virtual)
• IME Rebuttal / Critique
✓Provides immediate expertise to defense counsel on evolving clinical issues.
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Post-Trial Assessment and Recommendations
After the verdict:
• MD For Accuracy performs an objective assessment of potential underlying contributors
• Recommends institutional changes, including:
-Documentation improvements
-Policy refinements
-Staff re-education
• Offers individual coaching for involved providers when needed
✓Transforms adverse events into risk mitigation opportunities.
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