Medical Expert Witness Services

IMS Legal Strategies is widely recognized as one of the most reliable medical expert witness providers nationwide. Each member of our medical expert witness panel is carefully vetted for board certification, clinical experience, and proven credibility in their field of expertise. Our recruitment team conducts a thorough review of each expert’s academic background, clinical practice history, publications, prior testimony, and Daubert or Frye challenges.

When you work with IMS, you can select the best-aligned medical expert for your case and be confident of their ability to provide clear, credible opinions.

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Medical expert witnesses are typically engaged early in a case lifecycle. Retaining an expert during the initial case assessment or pre-suit investigation phase allows counsel to evaluate causation, damages, and liability before discovery begins, identify gaps in medical records, and recommend additional testing or conduct independent medical examinations (IMEs). Furthermore, early expert evaluation helps counsel develop a defensible damages theory and anticipate opposing arguments. 

IMS medical expert witnesses assist in cases such as transportation injury defense, medical malpractice lawsuits, catastrophic injury claims, and workers’ compensation disputes, from case strategy and discovery to deposition, settlement, and trial testimony. Early involvement ensures your expert has sufficient time to review medical records, prepare a life care plan or rebuttal, and prepare for and provide credible testimony.

The credibility of your medical expert witness hinges on clinical qualifications AND litigation experience. Attorneys require board-certified experts in relevant specialties who can provide and testify to targeted opinions.

Counsel may consider the following:

• Clinical alignment: Board-certified or board-eligible experts in the required clinical specialty (e.g., orthopedic surgery, neurology, pulmonology, radiology, psychiatry, nursing, emergency medicine, etc.)

• Case relevance: Experience in issues such as medical billing disputes, catastrophic injury cost projections, life care planning, or causation in auto accident defense

• Venue familiarity: Proven testimony experience in state and federal courts, arbitration, insurance disputes, wrongful death cases, and workers’ compensation hearings

IMS ensures venue-specific matching so your expert’s qualifications align with both the clinical facts and the expectations of the court or forum. We maintain a multi-state panel of over 700 medical expert witnesses across more than 220 areas of clinical focus. This depth of expertise allows us to support a broad range of litigation, including:

• Personal injury and catastrophic injury claims (with life care planning and cost projection testimony)

• Medical malpractice defense and plaintiff matters

• Insurance and disability disputes, including billing/coding analysis and policy coverage challenges

• Independent Medical Evaluations (IMEs), radiology second opinions, and future medical cost projections

With experience in venues from local courts to federal jurisdictions, as well as arbitration and mediation forums, our experts are prepared to deliver compelling testimony wherever your matter is litigated.

IMS specializes in providing board-certified professionals in nearly every area of healthcare, including practicing clinicians, researchers, and academic leaders. For injury- and insurance-related litigation, clients frequently seek experts in the following areas:

• Anesthesiology
• Auditing, billing, and coding
• Chiropractic medicine
• Diagnostic radiology
• Emergency medicine
• Internal medicine
• Life care planning
• Neurology and neurological surgery
• Neuropsychology 
• Nursing
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Occupational therapy
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedic surgery specialties (such as spinal surgery)
• Pain Management
• Physical therapy
• Prosthetics/orthotics
• Psychiatry
• Pulmonology
• Vocational rehabilitation

We continue to expand our medical expert witness panel across the US, carefully recruiting medical professionals in target areas of clinical focus while ensuring they possess the clinical authority and testimony skills necessary to withstand the rigors of deposition and trial.

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