Framing Amputation Cases to Obtain Full and Fair Compensation in Trial or Settlement
Conal Doyle, a right leg amputee from birth, has probably litigated more amputation injury cases than any attorney in the country. He is the author of “Glimpsing the Future for an Amputee”, Trial Magazine, 2008. This workshop will provide specific litigation and trial strategies and tactics developed from a lifetime of human experience and more than 27 years of litigating amputation injury cases. Topics that will be covered:
- How to use the Defense Prosthetic Expert to prove your damages case, including video-taped clips of cross-examination.
- What Damages Experts you need and which commonly used experts to avoid.
- How to protect the largest element of damages in your case: the future prosthetic life care plan.
- The importance of obtaining the proper prosthetics and how it can make a difference of millions of dollars in recovery.
- A primer on the most recent prosthetic technology and why it is essential that you understand its role in your case.
- Common mistakes that “plaintiff friendly” prosthetists and life care planners make that hurt your case-and how to easily avoid them.
- Common defense tactics and how to easily defeat them.
- Stories and analogies to prove up general damages without appearing “heavy handed.”
- Specific issues and strategies that occur in each type of amputation case, e.g., lower extremity “below knee” and “above knee” amputations; upper extremity amputations above and below the elbow
- Actual case examples illustrating proper work up of the amputation injury case.
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