Don't Let the Plaintiff 's Numbers Become the Only Numbers
Life Care Plan, Vocational & Economic Damages Rebuttal for Defense Counsel and Claims Professionals
Early review puts a defensible figure in the room before the demand sets the terms of the negotiation.
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CONTROL EXPOSURE BEFORE IT CONTROLS THE CASE
Separate supported damages from assumptions that drive exposure.
Claims teams need an early view of what is supported, which assumptions drive the demand, and which issues materially change claim value.
IMS helps counsel and claims professionals move from a demand orientation to clinical consulting review and, where justified, to focused rebuttal testimony.
HOW TO CHOOSE
A chart conversion is an exposure tool. A rebuttal is a trial tool.
Use the depth of scrutiny that fits the current decision instead of funding the largest deliverable first.
MATCHED TO THE CASE STAGE
Rebut only what must be.
Three distinct engagements help defense teams assess exposure, sharpen negotiation strategy, and commission testimony only when the file requires it.
FIRST NOTICE · EARLY DISCOVERY
Early Case Intelligence
Research and data analysis. No expert interpretation.
DISCOVERY · MEDIATION
Clinical Consulting
Narrative interpretation and recommendations for the working case theory.
DISCOVERY · TRIAL
Full Expert Opinion
Expert-authored, independently reviewed opinions and testimony.
DECISION: WHAT DOES THE DEMAND CONTAIN?
DECISION: WHICH ASSUMPTIONS CHANGE EXPOSURE?
DECISION: WHAT MUST BE CHALLENGED ON THE RECORD?
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Medical summary, no analysis
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Chart conversion to auditable line items
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Labor market and wage research
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Clinical review of plaintiff’s life care plan
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Review of plaintiff’s vocational assessment
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Consulting review of the loss calculation
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Life care plan rebuttal + testimony
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Vocational rebuttal + testimony
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Rebuttal of plaintiff’s economics expert
BEST FOR
Reserve orientation, demand review, and deciding whether a rebuttal is warranted.
BEST FOR
Mediation, authority requests, and identifying what to concede, question, or challenge.
BEST FOR
Disclosure, deposition, mediation, and trial.
Narrow the damages issues before they widen the dispute.
Early review identifies gaps worth pursuing in discovery and clarifies which questions deserve expert testimony.
See what is claimed, what supports it, and what changes exposure.
IMS reviews the plaintiff’s damages theory as a connected system rather than three isolated reports.
INVENTORY
Plaintiff’s Claim
TEST
IMS Analysis
DECIDE
Decision Support
Life Care Plan
Future services, frequency, duration, and cost.
Medical support and reasonableness
Do the records support the recommended care, frequency, and duration?
Reserve orientation
Vocational Assessment
Work capacity, employability, and earning loss.
Capacity and alternatives
Do restrictions align with the evidence, skills, and labor market?
Mediation strategy
Economic Model
Inputs, assumptions, methodology, and present value.
Methodology and sensitivity
Which assumptions materially change the resulting damages figure?
Focused rebuttal
FOR COUNSEL, PARALEGALS, AND PROFESSIONALS
Starting an engagement
What to send, what comes back, and where credibility requires expert-led work from the start.
FIRST NOTICE
Case Intelligence
DISCOVERY · MEDIATION
Clinical Consulting
DISCLOSURE · TRIAL
Full Expert Opinion
SEND
The demand, life care plan, and available supporting records.
SEND
Plaintiff reports, records, and the reserve or exposure question.
SEND
Complete record, plaintiff reports and depositions, and scheduling order.
RECEIVE
Organized data, chart conversion, and research without expert opinion.
RECEIVE
Consulting review of support, assumptions, and areas of vulnerability.
RECEIVE
Independently reviewed rebuttal report, expert opinion, and testimony support.
CLAIMANT
Nothing. No claimant contact of any kind.
CLAIMANT
No claimant contact. The review is based on records and opposing reports.
CLAIMANT
An interview or examination only where the retained opinion requires it.
TIMING
Confirmed during intake based on record volume and requested analysis.
TIMING
Scoped around mediation, authority, and litigation deadlines.
TIMING
Built to the case schedule and confirmed in the engagement scope.
We don't discount credibility.
These are scaled where scaling is safe and expert-led where it isn't. Where the work requires a physician, IMS staffs a physician. Additional Medical Legal Experts may strengthen your analysis.
Medical Billing & Coding
Audit, professional analysis, and expert code review.
Medical Examinations
Expert-led exams, reports, and testimony.
Expert Search & Demonstratives
Source the right expert and clarify complex opinions.
A line-item read on the demand in days, for a fraction of what a rebuttal costs. Reserve against what the plan actually contains, not what the cover letter claims.
02 · Clinical Consulting
Negotiate from tested assumptions
Know which items hold and which don’t before you walk into mediation. It remains consulting work, with no report authored for disclosure.
03 · Full Expert Opinion
Rebut only what’s worth rebutting
Court-ready opinions aimed at the assumptions that actually move the number. A narrower rebuttal is a more credible one.
Engage any of the three, in any order, whenever the file calls for it.
Send us the demand. We'll recommend the right next step.
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