For law firms
Plaintiff or defense, on the spine, joint, and fracture claims that make up most injury litigation: clinician-prepared chronologies, analysis, and deposition guides from the complete record, directed by a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and priced by the page with the number known before the review starts.
Why firms send us the records
The treatment story that matters is rarely the one in the demand package. It sits across thousands of pages: the urgent care visit from years before the accident, the gap between discharge and the specialist, the intake form that answers differently from the sworn interrogatory, the imaging impression that says degenerative where the narrative says acute. Excerpts miss it. A paralegal's weekend misses some of it. A clinician who reads orthopedic and spine charts for a living, reading every accessible page in order, does not.
That is the product: the complete chronology, and at the analysis tier the patterns worth a lawyer's attention, each identified in context and reported as the record shows it. Objectivity is the discipline of the house, because the only summary worth building a case on is one that holds up under cross-examination. What you tell us at intake, plaintiff, defense, workers' compensation, or malpractice, shapes the focus of the review, never its findings.
Four ways firms use us
Case workup
Every visit, study, and provider on one timeline for demands, mediation, and deposition prep. The whole file legible in an afternoon.
Discovery
The timeline plus treatment gaps, prior and pre-existing conditions, and inconsistencies within the record, each identified in context, with sworn discovery read against the chart.
When the medicine decides
Written opinions from a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon on causation, permanency, disability, and future care, under a separate physician engagement.
When the expert must be crossed
Send the records, and the opposing expert's report if one has been served. Back comes a deposition guide rooted in the medical evidence: the report analyzed against the chart, published studies on the medicine at issue, and lines of questioning keyed to specific records, so every question has an exhibit behind it. Expert-report analysis included in the page rate.
Built for how firms bill and work
Pricing is published and the math is public: pages times rate, with a $150 case minimum on the review tiers and $1,000 on Deposition Guides. Upload the records and your exact total arrives by email, generally the same business day, with a secure link for card or ACH. Payment starts the review and sets a committed completion date, so nothing is outstanding after delivery and nothing needs chasing. Invoices reference your case number only. Your paralegal runs the whole flow from the firm's secure workspace, your records stay in the organization you produced them in, and volume practices can move to consolidated monthly billing with auto-charge on the confirmed count. Deliverables arrive as PDF and Word on every case.
Asked by counsel
Orthopedic and spine injury cases: neck and back claims after collisions, disc herniation and radiculopathy, fusions and decompressions, shoulder, knee, hip, and ankle injuries, fractures, joint replacement, and the soft-tissue claims that follow falls and workplace injuries, plus orthopedic and spine malpractice. The emergency, primary care, pain management, and therapy records inside those cases are read in full as part of the same chronology. A case that turns on cardiology, obstetrics, or oncology is outside the focus; ask before you upload if you are unsure.
Both, and workers' compensation and orthopedic malpractice on either side. The intake posture tailors what the review chases and how the deliverable is organized, so the answers your file turns on are easy to find. The findings themselves are reported as the record shows them, which is precisely what makes them usable in front of a jury.
Yes. Send the records in whatever organization they exist in, Bates-stamped productions included. Records from every source are merged into a single chronology, and entries can be traced back to the files you furnished.
No. Summary + Analysis identifies what the record shows, treatment gaps, prior conditions, inconsistencies, without opinions on causation, credibility, standard of care, treatment necessity, permanency, or prognosis. Interpretation stays with you and your retained experts. When you need an actual opinion, that is the separate Expert Medical-Legal Review engagement, in writing, from a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon.
The guide is prepared at counsel's direction as litigation support: it shows where the opposing expert's report diverges from the treatment record, cites the published literature on the medicine at issue, and suggests lines of questioning keyed to specific records. It equips you to examine; it does not render opinions on causation, credibility, or standard of care, and no NaviCase reviewer is being offered as a witness. When the matter needs an opinion of record, that is the separate Expert Medical-Legal Review engagement.
Records move only through a secure, HIPAA-supported portal, and where NaviCase acts as a business associate under HIPAA, the applicable Business Associate Agreement governs the engagement. Review is by North America-based clinicians in active orthopedic or spine practice. Source records and deliverables are retained per the published Client Terms, and you keep your own copies of everything.
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