Healthcare

With clinical judgment on trial, the standard of care, causation, and treatment decisions must be supported by clear evidence and presented in ways that decision-makers can easily decipher. IMS provides a suite of expert services to help legal teams and claims professionals untangle dense medical records, assess competing opinions, and clarify case value in healthcare litigation.

When healthcare disputes escalate, expertise makes all the difference.

The stakes in healthcare litigation extend beyond the underlying facts of the dispute. Evolving regulations, specialized industry standards, complex damages models, and highly technical or sensitive evidence can create challenges throughout the life of a case, requiring both legal and healthcare-specific insights.

These challenges arise across a broad spectrum of healthcare-related litigation, including:

Medical malpractice and standard-of-care disputes
Hospital and provider liability claims
Insurance coverage disagreements
Regulatory and compliance matters
Medical device and pharmaceutical product liability
Data privacy and cybersecurity matters involving patient records

Litigation teams need partners who understand the clinical details and the strategic nuances. Clients nationwide rely on IMS to deliver the expertise needed to position healthcare cases for the best possible outcomes. Explore our services below to learn why.

From Early Case Assessment Through Trial and Appeal: Our Role in Healthcare Disputes

Healthcare disputes frequently require engaging multiple experts and services. IMS provides integrated solutions under one roof, including expert witness search, medical legal experts, and litigation consulting, so case strategy remains cohesive at every stage. Theme development shapes the narrative, medical and regulatory experts clarify or challenge the evidence, mock trial research tests case strengths, custom visuals make it accessible to decision-makers, and strategic delivery ensures the arguments have maximum impact. Retaining IMS early gives these elements time to be built in alignment.

Featured Case Study: Ravgen Inc. v. Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings

This healthcare patent dispute centered on highly technical prenatal DNA testing methods. IMS supported the case from concept to courtroom, combining visual strategy, tutorial development, and trial technology to make complex science accessible to decision-makers. The jury found willful infringement and awarded the full royalty demand.

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IMS Healthcare Expertise in Action

Featured Case Study: Fast Tracking a Forensic Handwriting Expert

IMS matched a client with a certified forensic handwriting expert within 24 hours to meet a one-week deadline in a medical malpractice case, where signature authenticity on medical records was in dispute after surgery left a physician-patient unable to work. Despite the compressed timeline, the expert, a 20+ year ABFDE-certified document examiner, delivered a strong report that helped the case settle successfully.

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Featured Case Study: Rebuttal Request: Finding a Life Care Planning Expert

Defense counsel needed a certified life care planner with testifying experience to rebut a plaintiff's life care plan in a workplace personal injury claim. IMS's pre-vetted panel surfaced qualified candidates within hours, and the client selected a board-certified emergency medicine physician and life care planner who had consulted on 600+ personal injury cases. The expert's deposition helped lead to a settlement of the case.

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Healthcare Litigation Capabilities

Expert Advisory & Analysis
Economics & Finance: Quantify damages, lost profits, and reasonable settlement ranges to inform case strategy heading into trial or settlement negotiations
Litigation Surveys & Rebuttals: Field consumer and market research where brand, advertising, or regulatory perception issues are part of a healthcare matter, along with rebuttal analysis of an opposing party's survey or damages methodology
Statistics, Sampling & Econometrics: Support the statistical and sampling methodology behind a damages or class-certification position in healthcare class actions
Expert Witness Search
Custom Expert Witness Search: Locate subject-matter experts in hospital administration, healthcare regulation, and any clinical specialty for litigation and arbitration proceedings, using proprietary AI-assisted search alongside professional vetting and engagement
Technical Expert Witness Search: Source technical, engineering, and cybersecurity experts for data breach, patent infringement, and medical device matters
Medical Expert Witness Search: Engage medical experts in any specialty and any location, with careful evaluation of clinical expertise and testimony experience to align with case needs
Litigation Consulting
Strategy & Theme Development: Shape a compelling case narrative around key themes that help the judge, jury, or arbitrator organize and recall your arguments
Jury Research & Mock Trials: Test case themes, evidence, and testimony through mock exercises and focus groups while building juror risk profiles for trial
Trial Graphics & Multimedia: Develop strategic demonstratives to make complex clinical and financial evidence and case timelines clear to decision-makers
Presentation Technology: Ensure exhibits and expert testimony are delivered seamlessly during important hearings, including matters with heavy documentary and medical record evidence
Medical Legal Experts
Life Care Planning & Rebuttals and Vocational Assessments: Support the damages component of a healthcare matter arising from a personal injury or malpractice claim
Medical Expert Witness Services: Identify medical experts to address standard of care, causation, and treatment issues central to a healthcare dispute, drawn from a network spanning 220+ areas of clinical focus
Medical Demonstratives: Create medically accurate visual evidence in collaboration with experts to support reports, reinforce testimony, and clarify complicated procedures and outcomes

IMS brought me top, non-conflicted experts (in a very narrow field that is rife with conflict issues) in a short period of time. I was impressed with their approach and attention to my needs.
Litigation Managing Partner

IMS helps me see things the way the jury will, which makes a critical difference when preparing for trial. I make sure to hire them before the case is even indicted.
Chairman, Am Law 50 Firm

FAQs

Medical malpractice and standard-of-care disputes, hospital and provider liability claims, insurance coverage disagreements, regulatory and compliance matters, medical device and pharmaceutical product liability, and data privacy or cybersecurity matters involving patient records are commonly litigated in the healthcare industry.

IMS can be engaged at nearly any stage; however, early involvement before discovery closes or a trial date is set provides the most benefit. Early engagement allows time for expert witness search and vetting, strategy and theme development, and the design of graphics and demonstratives that can be refined and tested well before trial.

IMS's medical expert witness services offer quick access to a pre-vetted panel of credentialed experts spanning multiple US states and 220+ areas of clinical focus. Our medical expert witness search team can source and vet experts in any location and any specialty, including clinical care, hospital administration, regulatory compliance, and medical technology. Across all levels of case complexity, experts are carefully matched for subject-matter expertise and the ability to present credibly to a judge, jury, or arbitrator.

We support individual medical malpractice and coverage disputes as well as regulatory, consumer protection, and data breach class actions, providing the statistical, survey, and damages expertise these matters require through expert advisory services.

Jury research and mock trials, strategy and theme development, and trial graphics translate directly into healthcare case preparation, adapted to the clinical and regulatory nature of the industry. Trial technology teams collaborate with clients from database preparation through courtroom presentation.

IMS's Life Care Planning & Rebuttals team develops life care plans, cost projections, and vocational and earning-capacity assessments to support the damages component of malpractice and personal injury matters connected to healthcare disputes.