MedNeutral for Law Firms
Medical Neutral for Gulf Oil Spill Claim
Scores of personal injury claims will be filed in connection with the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the cleanup efforts. A thorough review of multiple levels of information will be required to determine the legitimacy of a claim, causation, record completeness and valuation. MedNeutral’s process for the medical records would involve the following:
- Organize, index, process and analyze the voluminous medical records
- Reduce medical records to online summaries for prompt search and review, with the underlying source documents available for more detailed search and review
- Provide access to documents to authorized users and enable electronic “sticky-notes” on the medical records (which may be shared with others or not)
- Highlight key descriptive information based on attorney specified requirements, such as:
Compliance with criteria for class inclusion
- Confirm claimant’s qualification and mechanism of injury
- Confirm geographic location and timing of exposure
Identify symptoms expressed and contraindications
- Identify injury or diagnosis compared to expected health impact
Review for alternate causation/mitigation of damages
- Identify existence of other risk factors which may predispose claimant to injuries (i.e, pre-existing conditions)
- Identify comparative negligence (i.e., ingestion of other medications)
- Identify contributory negligence (i.e., non-compliance with prescribed medicine)
Check record completeness
- Identify any missing records, gaps in service and missed appointments
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- Process and resolve Claim
- Process descriptive information and summary through settlement matrix for expeditious resolutions, combined with certainty and transparency
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