At its core, personal injury litigation can be adversarial, particularly if the client suffered severe, life-altering injuries and are seeking a substantial amount of compensation in order to make you whole again. When hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars are on the line, the defense insurance company or attorneys will hire highly credentialed expert witnesses to try to discredit your injuries, your testimony and even cherry-pick evidence in an effort to show that your case does not have feet on which to stand.

These defense experts are colloquially known as “hired guns” because despite the fact that they may have an understanding of your accident, your injuries and the impact of both on your life now in the future, they will side with the defendant for reasons we’ll take a look at shortly.

This may seem morally wrong or unethical, but the law often straddles these fences closely without crossing the line, and the side that proves their case and leaves no room for reasonable doubt is the side that wins a personal injury lawsuit. At McCready Law, we have dealt with hundreds of these defense experts for many decades and have successfully beat them at their own game by exposing their biases, dismantling their flawed opinions and more all in an effort to protect your right to fair compensation.

Read on to find out exactly how we do this.

How McCready Law Handles Biased Defense Experts in Injury Cases?

At McCready Law, we know how to neutralize biased defense experts by challenging their credibility, exposing flawed opinions, and presenting stronger, evidence-backed arguments that support your claim. Our attorneys are skilled at identifying the tactics, and we fight back with facts, expert testimony of our own, and decades of courtroom experience.

If you’re concerned that a defense expert may hurt your case, call us at (314) 481-63338. We’ll review your situation, explain your legal options, and build a strategy that protects your right to fair compensation.

The experienced injury lawyers at McCready Law bring to the table over 90 YEARS of combined legal experience where we’ve helped tens of thousands of injured Americans from all corners of the country as well as different socioeconomic backgrounds recover compensation after getting injured on account of the negligent actions of other individuals. Over the decades, we’ve been able to recover over $260 million and counting for our clients, with a large chunk of these settlements and judgments ranging in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Our success can be attributed to a number of factors such as the fact that we personally handle and process all claims from start to finish, unlike the majority of law firms that relegate this kind of work to legal assistants or paralegals who usually do not have the prerequisite skills and experience to successfully recover compensation.

We also engage top experts in the forensic, medical, investigative and accounting fields in order to craft a compelling case replete with objective evidence which demonstrates causation and negligence that can be quantified by way of damages. We also aren’t afraid to litigate claims because unlike most law firms, we have the experience and resources to successfully take a claim to court and have it heard by a judge or jury in order to recover maximum compensation allowable by law or the particular jurisdiction. We run a bilingual firm (hablamos Espanol), and we have nationwide reach thanks to our trusted network of referral injury attorneys and law firms that we work closely with.

Last but not least is the fact that we take on all claims on contingency fee basis, which simply means that there are ZERO UPFRONT FEES for the duration of the processing of your claim, as we only levy our fees at the end of the suit, and only if we’ve recovered compensation on your behalf. If you or a loved one got injured due to the negligent actions of others, please give us a call NOW at (314) 481-63338 to learn more about your legal options for justice and compensation: our intake team is standing by.

Defense Experts in Personal Injury Claims – What to Expect?

It is important to note that defense experts aren’t inherently biased on account of the fact that they must follow the ethical standards of their profession, but the legal system is structured in such a way as to incentivize their participation in personal injury litigation.

Here are some of the characteristics of defense experts:

• They are hired guns who are drawn from a very small pool of expert witnesses who more often than not derive a significant portion of their income from testifying for the defense.
• They also tend to be repeat players who have testified in hundreds, even thousands of cases for the defense.
• They also command substantial hourly rates which usually exceeds what they might earn in clinical practice or academic research, which is a huge incentive in and of itself.

Because of their dedication to forensic work for innumerable cases, they tend to have a minimal patient load which usually means a disconnect from real-world patient care, which in the end calls their credibility into question.

Some of the tactics these defense-hired experts use in litigation include the following:

1. They may downplay the severity and extent of your injuries by stating that they are temporary, minor or can be resolved by quick treatment even when your medical records state the opposite
2. They may state that there is no causation demonstrated and allege your injuries or complications were caused by pre-existing conditions, congenital factors or simply everyday activities
3. They may hint at the fact that you may be exaggerating symptoms, engaging in malingering or are simply looking for a quick payday and enter into evidence social media, surveillance videos and so on in order to cast aspersions on your credibility.

At McCready Law, we believe in enacting sophisticated strategies in order to shoot down these often-biased expert opinions in order to protect your projected successful judgment or settlement.

Here are some of the ways in which we do this:

• We ensure to build an exhaustive medical record history in order to understand your current health as well as proactively address any pre-existing conditions that the defense may attempt to exploit.
• We will also retain our own board-certified, highly reputable experts who will be able to communicate complex scientific or medical concepts in a persuasive manner to a jury and who can go head-to-head when it comes to aggressive cross-examination.
• We will also demand to see comprehensive reports from these defense experts justifying their opinions, their methodologies as well as the material used in order to scrutinize them with a fine-tooth comb for any logical inconsistencies, omissions and so on.
• We shall aggressively depose them in order to expose their biases by asking them about the percentage of their income derived from defense work, the number of times they’ve testified for that particular defense firm or insurance company and how much they’ve made from such work. We shall also ask them about what medical reports they did NOT review, tests they did NOT conduct and even compare their testimony to their own published medical literature.

Best Countrywide Injury Lawyers – Call Us Today!

Defense experts exist primarily to illegitimize your claims in order to have your compensation denied. We employ comprehensive strategies to counter their often-biased claims in order to protect the integrity of your personal injury claim. Please give us a call NOW at (314) 481-63338 so we can assess your potential claim and provide you with 100% FREE legal advice on what steps to take next in order to safeguard your compensation regardless of where you are in the country. Thanks for choosing McCready Law, and we look forward to helping you.