Medical malpractice legal support
Standard-of-care chronology
A med mal case is won or lost on the chart. We build the timeline entry by entry, anchor every line to a page, and mark the points where the record shows a departure from what the standard required — for your expert and your review, never as a medical opinion of ours.
- Published price
- $600–1,800 / case
- Turnaround
- 48 hours
- Without us
- $3,000–10,000 (nurse consultant $125–200/hr)
Fixed per unit, not hourly. No minimum engagement. Quoted before we start.
What you receive
A dated treatment timeline cross-referenced to the applicable standard of care, with page citations.
Priced per case by chart volume. Charts above 2,000 pages, or spanning more than four facilities, are quoted at the upper end.
- A dated chronology of every encounter: provider, setting, findings, orders, medications and results
- Page-level citation on every entry, so any line can be verified in seconds
- Departure points marked where the record diverges from the standard you or your expert have identified
- Missing records identified by reference: tests ordered but absent, referrals without follow-up
- A provider index showing who did what and when, across facilities
- A key-events summary for use in the complaint, expert packet or deposition preparation
What it costs, and what it replaces
Both figures are published ranges for the same unit of work. Ours is fixed before we start; if our process gets faster, that is our gain and your price does not move.
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- $600–1,800 / case
- Typical cost without us
- $3,000–10,000 / case
Roughly 82% lower at the midpoint of each published range.
How the work runs
01
Chart assembly
Records arrive from several facilities in different formats and orders. We assemble them into a single chronological chart first, de-duplicated, with each page indexed to its source.
02
Entry-level extraction
Every encounter is extracted with its findings, orders, medications and results. Nursing notes are read, not skimmed — they frequently carry the timing detail the physician notes omit.
03
Standard mapping
Against the standard you or your expert supply, we mark where the record shows the standard was and was not met, quoting the chart rather than characterising it.
04
Gap and delivery pass
We list records that should exist and do not, then a qualified lawyer reviews the chronology against the chart before it is delivered in your preferred format.
What we need from you
- The complete medical records, including nursing notes, orders and imaging reports
- The standard of care you are working to, or your expert's preliminary view
- The specific clinical question at issue
- Any prior chronology or summary already prepared
What we check before delivery
- Every entry carries a page citation and is verified against that page by a reviewer
- Handwritten and poorly scanned entries are flagged as uncertain rather than guessed
- Timing conflicts between nursing and physician records are surfaced, not reconciled silently
- The chronology states what the record says; clinical conclusions are left to your expert
When firms send us this
- Pre-suit merit review, before committing to an expert retainer
- Expert packets, so the expert reads a chronology rather than 2,000 raw pages
- Deposition preparation for treating providers
- Defence-side review of a plaintiff's chronology against the underlying chart
Questions about standard-of-care chronology
Are you giving a medical opinion?
No. We report what the chart records and map it against a standard you or your expert supply. Clinical and legal conclusions belong to your expert and to you.
How does this compare to a nurse consultant?
The same artefact at a fixed price per case rather than $125–200 an hour. Where a case needs clinical opinion rather than chart reconstruction, you still need your expert — this is what gets handed to them.
Can you handle handwritten charts?
Yes, with the caveat that illegible entries are marked as illegible rather than interpreted. We tell you which pages would benefit from a certified transcription.
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