Medico-Legal Service
At Premier Consult, medico-legal support to attorneys is one of our core offerings as a consultancy service provider and include Medical Negligence as well as Loss of Support Claims. As a part of our service, we develop extensive reports focussed on the integration of various expert reports and detailing any possible loss of earnings and career prospects in the support of our clients’ claim. In achieving the latter, we offer claims for:
- Past and future loss of income and/or earning potential of injured individual
- Future employability, increases and promotional opportunities
- Limitations
- Career prospects and plateau (pre-morbid vs post morbid)
- Claimant’s socio-economic status
- Family and educational background
- Employment history
- Obtained collateral information and reference to other expert opinions
- Research of the conditions in the open labour market
Medical negligence is defined as a negligent act or omission by a medical professional that results in personal injury to a patient and occurs when a medical professional's actions do not meet the accepted standards of practice. It's not only medical doctors who may be responsible for medical malpractice. Negligence by other medical professionals, such as nurses, dentists, osteopaths and those responsible for conditions in health care facilities like nursing homes, may also result in personal injury. Negligence may take the form of errors during the diagnosis, treatment or management of health conditions. It may also involve failure to obtain a patient's informed consent before undertaking a procedure or operation.
“Informed consent” exists only if a medical provider has thoroughly informed a patient about all the inherent risks, benefits and alternatives involved in any surgical or medical procedure or treatment, and that the patient has duly given written consent to proceed with the treatment.
Our Industrial Psychologists establish and express an opinion by means of an integrated report to the instructing Attorneys (for presentation in court) on the factors relating to the circumstances around a medical negligence claim.
When you have suffered a personal injury that was not your fault, you may be eligible for monetary compensation to cover the costs of the damages incurred. These costs are usually related to medical treatment or financial losses as a result of injury. Personal injury claims can be launched for a variety of incidents, including slip and fall claims, road accident claims, medical negligence claims and any other incident involving another person who was the sole and direct cause of your injury.
Although a personal injury claim may be daunting, it is not always wise to avoid trying to claim compensation for personal injury. If more people start claiming compensation for personal injury, other people may also begin acting considerately and in a way that does not cause others harm.
Our Industrial Psychologists establish and express an opinion by means of an integrated report to the instructing Attorneys (for presentation in court) on the factors relating to the circumstances around a personal injury claim.
If a close member of your family has been killed in a motor vehicle accident that was someone else's fault and the family member who died supported you financially, you can lodge a loss of support claim with the Road Accident Fund (RAF). As well as compensating those injured in accidents on South African roads, the RAF compensates the families of victims in the case of the death of a breadwinner. You can also claim compensation for funeral costs.
Our Industrial Psychologists establish and express an opinion by means of an integrated report to the instructing Attorneys (for presentation in court) on the factors relating to the circumstances around a personal injury claim.