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Medical Review for Plaintiff Firms

Evaluate causation, treatment gaps, damages support, pre-existing conditions, future care needs, and expert requirements — before you commit to a full case or a testifying expert.

Plaintiff Firms

Understand the Medicine Before You Commit

A plaintiff matter lives or dies on the medicine. Before a case theory hardens or a retainer goes to a testifying expert, a physician-led causation and merit review tells you what the records actually support — and what they do not.

CauseMD leads with plaintiff-side work. The review method is neutral and the same whichever side commissions it, but our launch focus and warm network are plaintiff. A conflict check runs before any case detail is shared.

What a review answers for the plaintiff side

  • Is the claimed injury supported by the records, and is the causal link defensible?
  • Are pre-existing conditions or alternative explanations a problem — and how big?
  • Are the damages medically supported, including future and life-care needs?
  • Is there a standard-of-care issue worth pursuing (med-mal)?
  • Which expert specialty does the matter actually need — so you retain the right one, once?
  • A defensible merit screen before filing, on defined scope and price.

Neutral method, conflict discipline. The same review process whichever side commissions it — and never both sides of one matter. See how we gate every opinion.

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Common matters

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What You Receive

A Defined, Defensible Deliverable

Issue mapThe medical questions the matter actually turns on.
Medical chronologyA clean, sourced timeline of the care at issue.
Causation memoWhether the records support the causal link — and where they do not.
Standard-of-care screenWhether the care met or deviated from the applicable standard.
Expert pathway memoThe exact specialty and expert the matter needs next.
Rebuttal reviewA point-by-point response to an opposing report or IME.
How It Works

Conflict-Cleared, PHI-Safe Intake

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Submit metadataMatter type, side, jurisdiction & the medical question. No PHI
2
Conflict checkWe screen the opposing party before anything else. PHI gate
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Scope & priceDefined scope and a fixed price, agreed in writing.
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Secure upload linkA HIPAA-aware link + BAA — records move here, not by email. Secure · BAA
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Physician reviewA specialty-matched physician reviews the records.
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Signed opinionA deposition-safe, physician-signed deliverable.

No protected health information is collected on the public form. Records are shared only after the conflict check clears, through a secure, HIPAA-aware channel.

Put a Physician on the Medicine

Tell us the matter type, jurisdiction, and the medical question — metadata only, no records until conflicts clear.