Spinal Injury Cases, Session Five: Cross-Examining Defense Experts - On Demand CLE

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In the fifth session on handling spinal injury cases by retired doctor and practicing trial lawyer Aaron DeShaw, Dr. DeShaw is joined by lawyer and cross-examination expert Dorothy Clay Sims. In this presentation, DeShaw and Sims will share information about cross-examining defense experts so that you and your firm can obtain better settlements and verdicts in spinal injury cases.

The following areas will be addressed:

• Defense medical examinations and the “insurance meat grinder”
• Using Polarizing the Case
• Waddell’s test and other allegations of malingering
• Researching the defense expert
• Typical issues with the following defense experts:
• Biomechanist
• Crash reconstructionist
• Neurosurgeon
• Neurologist
• Orthopedic surgeon
• Orthopedist
• Physiatrist
• Pain management
• Radiologist or neuroradiologist
• Doctor of chiropractic
• Psychologist, psychiatrist or neuropsychologist (limited to spinal injury cases)
• Are there potential ethics violations by the expert?
• What to ask for from the defense expert in discovery
• Daubert or Frye motions against defense witness
• Motions limiting testimony
• Cross-examination of defense witnesses in deposition or trial
• Constructive vs. destructive cross-examination
• Traditional cross or dynamic cross
• Using learned treatises

Additional sessions in this series will cover the following topics: 

• Session 1: Basic Spinal Anatomy for Lawyers and Legal Staff
• Session 2: Common Spinal Injuries
• Session 3: Treating providers, Imaging, Additional Examinations & Expert Opinions
• Session 4: Prelitigation Tactics & Demand Letters
• Session 6: Litigation

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