Insights
Notes on the merits
of a claim.
On assessing medical-negligence claims — breach, causation, the standard of care, and the discipline of deciding what's worth running.
The 20-hour question: what assessing merits in-house really costs
The expensive part of medical-negligence work isn't running claims — it's deciding which ones to run. A look at the hidden cost of that decision, and a better way to make it.
Read →Worth running, or not — how the clinical merits of a claim are tested
A breach of duty means little without causation, and causation is a clinical question. How a considered view on the merits is actually formed.
Read →Where medical-negligence claims actually fail: breach, causation, and the standard of care
Most claims that fail don't fail on breach. They fail on causation — the element most often under-examined before a firm commits.
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