News – Tagged "malingering in litigation"

Should you settle or try your "minor impact" cases?

Jul 27, 2010

Minor Impact Soft Tissue (MIST) cases can be some of the most difficult cases to prove and win. We all know what whiplash is, but can you explain it? Can you explain how a crash causes a muscle strain or ligament sprain, and how the direction and force of the impact can impact your client? Do you really know how the body systems function, and why the junk science doesn't add up?

If you are trying "MIST" cases or if you are settling them, you need all the help you can get. Imagine walking into a settlement conference or a courtroom, armed with solid, irrefutable facts about the seriousness of the plaintiff's condition. Imagine cross examining the defense expert and proving the basis of his opinion to be false. Dr. Arthur Croft's new book, Whiplash and Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries can help you do just this.

Defeating the "Malingering Defense" in Personal Injury Litigation

Oct 20, 2009

The International Brian Injury Association recently released an article by brain injury attorney Dorothy Clay Sims, entitled "An Autopsy on the Fake Bad Scale."

Consider reading the article if you handle any personal injury cases in which your client may have suffered from brain or psychological injuries. In the article, the authors discuss multiple problems with the Fake Bad Scale (FBS, also known as Symptom Validity Scale), a controversial test for measuring malingering.

$1 Million Soft Tissue Verdict

Jun 23, 2009

Regardless of whether you handle mild, moderate or catastrophic injury cases, insurers frequently call your client a malingerer, or claim they have a type of somatoform disorder. Polarizing the Case teaches you how to discredit that common insurance defense. Called "the bible for anyone trying cases in today's climate" by Inner Circle member Brian Panish, Polarizing the Case is a trial text every trial lawyer must own and understand before their next trial.

New! Polarizing the Case: Exposing & Defeating the Malingering Myth

Jan 28, 2008

If you have ever faced a trial where your client was called a malingerer, or their complaints deemed psychosomatic, non-organic, or a conversion disorder, you know these insinuations can lead to a painful and unwarranted defense verdict. Defense psychiatrists and neuropsychologists are hired to spin junk science into a convincing alternative explanation to a legitimate injury.

You may have already heard about Rick Friedman's #1 legal text Rules of the Road, which has helped thousands of trial lawyers win cases of every kind. Now, Friedman provides another brilliant case changing technique in Polarizing the Case.