What we do
In Indiana the focus for every healthcare provider facing a medical malpractice claim is winning the medical review panel. Very few medical malpractice cases go to trial in Indiana. The medical review panel is a must win situation and is where the volume of cases are resolved.
It is imperative to know early and accurately when to resolve a case or defend it through panel and trial. To do this, a personal understanding of the medicine by your defense attorney is critical.
At Engelking Law Group, we understand that speaking the language of healthcare provider clients, the medical review panel members and the medical experts offering critical affidavit, deposition and trial testimony can make the difference between winning at trial or settling a case.
Unmatched results
- Based on speaking the language of healthcare provider clients, medical review panel members and experts.
- Trial avoidance based on early resolution when indicated. Strong medical review panel results for best positioned defense should trial be necessary.
- Excellence of work product well known and expressed by experts, healthcare clients, attorneys, and panel chairmen in this line of business both locally and nationally.
- Well known in Indiana for presenting thorough, well reasoned panel submissions to Medical Review Panels based on a strong foundation and understanding of the medicine involved in each case.
- Unmatched panel opinion results for clients as documented in the Indiana PCF database.
Unmatched Risk Assessment
- Based on a personal understanding of medical issues as a healthcare provider
- Personal ability to assess the accuracy of medical defenses and case strengths or weaknesses offered by experts
What does speaking the language translate into?
- Accurate and early evaluation of case strengths and weaknesses and risk
- High quality panel submissions to Medical Review Panels in Indiana
- Accurate anticipation of medical review panel result (which leads to accurate and effective early resolution when necessary)
- Accurate decisions as to defense (cases for health care providers that give appropriate and reasonable care are defended through trial rather than settled)
- Depo prep excellence based on ability to speak the language of staff/health careproviders
- Understanding the language of health care clients means knowing what specialists/experts/defenses are needed to win.
- Expedited, accurate and cost effective expert identification and utilization
- Depo prep excellence based on ability to speak the language of staff/health careproviders and prepare them on the medical issues for deposition
- Ability to understand multidisciplinary involvement of specialties, standards for expected care and communication practices.
- Ability to know where liability stands between specialties/healthcare providers and Plaintiffs
- Ability to distinguish and hone in on location of care breakdown quickly and effectively when necessary
- Critical “on the spot” understanding of medical information and testimony offered during deposition and trial.
- Critical “on the spot” ability to know and timely react when attorneys, parties, experts or deponents are trying to assign liability where liability is not due.
EFFICIENCY THAT SAVES
TIME AND MONEY
Efficient understanding of medicine by your attorney saves time and money. When time is saved, the option of fixing your defense cost risk is available. Engelking Law Group offers the option of volume driven flat fee and/or capped defense costs:
- A defense attorney that is also a healthcare provider can personally read, understand and utilize medical records for the defense, rather than relying primarily on their clients and experts to teach them the medicine involved in the case
- Efficient use of experts saves money on expert and attorney bills
- Efficient review and understanding of medical records by your attorney saves defense costs
- Healthcare clients and experts associated with Engelking Law Group spend their time caring for patients. It is not necessary to spend time teaching medicine
- Engelking Law Group is a boutique defense firm with the ability to work effectively on a fixed fee through the panel process
- Engelking Law Group bills hourly for matters that proceed to trial post panel in Indiana
Contact us
ENGELKING LAW GROUP, LLC
550 Congressional Blvd.
Suite 115
Carmel, IN 46032
