Albuquerque Legal Nurse Consultant

Lynn Andersen Nurse Consulting provides comprehensive support for legal teams in all types of cases, from personal injury and medical malpractice, to toxic cases, environmental law and criminal defense. 

With over 30 years of nursing experience, Lynn has extensive experience in Post Anesthesia Care Units, orthopedics, and spinal surgery. She has worked with state and federal compliance regulations, including the Joint Commission and the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care.

For the past 15 years, she has utilized her skills and insights to assist attorneys in reviewing cases and preparing cases for trial, where she is frequently called as an expert witness. 

Lynn personally works with each law firm she represents. Clients who realize the many advantages of having access to an experienced nurse consultant often begin utilizing those services at each stage of a case.

Medical Consulting for Law Firms in Albuquerque 

Prevailing in a case involving complex medical issues takes significant time and resources. Most law firms do not have access to the unlimited staffing and financial resources of large defense firms backed by insurance companies and the medical establishment. 

Understanding at the outset the merits and challenges of reaching a successful outcome in a case can allow law firms to best utilize their time and resources. Additionally, proving each element of a case - duty, breach of standard of care, damages and causation – requires expert medical knowledge. A failure in any of the four areas is the goal of defense counsel. 

Breach of duty and causation are often where defense attorneys work the hardest to create doubt. The standard of care is impacted by the facts and circumstances of every case, while causation can be impacted by pre-existing conditions, actions or inactions of the plaintiff, or any number of other factors. 

Lynn Andersen Nurse Consulting provides experienced medical help at each stage of a case, including. 

• Intake: Determining the strengths and merits of a case is best done during intake. Helping a law firm determine where to spend its time and resources is a service that pays for itself. 
• Standards of care: This is a complex area of any medical case. Standards are often influenced by many other factors specific to a case. Experienced medical help will not only make your case stronger, it will help determine what defense counsel will argue. 
• Damages: Damages is another area where professional medical consulting pays for itself. Too often a law firm has a strong case, but fails to uncover all current and potential future damages.
• Causation: This area will be worked extensively by defense counsel, as it is often where the most doubt can be created. Pre-existing conditions and many other factors can influence whether a breach of duty caused the resulting injuries and damages. 
• Expert witness: Not only can an experienced nurse consultant put it all together in testimony a jury can understand, an experienced nurse’s ability to simply complex medical issues can be invaluable to attorneys throughout trial. 

Lynn Anderson works personally with each law firm she represents throughout the Albuquerque area, including South Valley, Los Ranchos, North Valley, Rio Rancho, Corrales, Bernalillo, Los Lunas, Belen, Santa Fe, Los Alamos, Grants, Espanola, Socorro and Taos.

Lynn Andersen Nurse Consulting L.L.C. provides free consultations, and professional and comprehensive services at every state of litigation, from intake to resolution. Call her direct at 719-237-4415.