No Defense Team Should Prepare Alone
An opposing expert takes the oath. Odds are, another defense team has already heard that expert testify on the same issue. A claims leader in another state has already watched a similar case move through mediation. But that knowledge sits in someone else's file room, on one lawyer's drive, or in a memory that never got written down. So the defense starts from scratch. Again.
The Wound Isn’t the Whole Story: Defending Pressure Injury Claims
In long-term care litigation, few exhibits land harder than a photograph of a pressure injury. Jurors see the wound and fill in the story themselves: someone didn’t turn her. Someone didn’t care. But a wound is a clinical finding, not a conclusion. The real question isn’t whether harm occurred. It’s whether the care was reasonable — and whether any care could have prevented it.
Staffing Numbers Don’t Prove Causation
In long-term care litigation, the staffing schedule has become one of the plaintiff's favorite exhibits. Blow up the roster. Circle an open slot on the night shift. Let jurors connect the dots: fewer hands, so the fall was inevitable. So someone is to blame. It's a compelling story. It's also a shortcut. A staffing level describes a building. It doesn't explain what happened to a resident.