Personal Injury and Social Security Disability Blog

Link of the Day - MD In A Box

"MD in a Box" sounds like a new health care clinic at Wal-Mart, but is something completely different. The brainchild of Florida lawyer Dorothy Clay Sims, who became frustrated with the testimony of insurance company medical experts during depositions in her personal injury claims, MD in a Box is intended to give plaintiff lawyers an edge when deposing a defense expert.

The idea in a nutshell is that a lawyer taking a medical deposition is on a live feed with a doctor in India, who gives the lawyer tips via instant messaging on what questions to ask, and whether the testifying expert is properly explaining medical tests and studies. Here is a bit of information from the Web site:

Giving the Attorney the Competitive Edge

• Have your own doctor with you live via the internet, during deposition or even trial, while you cross-examine the opposing doctor!

• Receive private instant message communications in real time from YOUR MDinaBOX doctor suggesting follow-up questions for the doctor hired by the opposing side!

• Have a doctor available to explain medicine to you DURING TRIAL!

• Have a doctor available to do internet research for articles to use for cross-examining opposing doctor during testimony!

• Talk to a fully trained medical doctor about your cases for only $90 per hour!*

• Have doctors review medical records and make suggestions regarding:
  
  1. Causation
  2. Disability
  3. Diagnosis
  4. Cross examination questions

• Have doctors explain medical reports to you on the internet (works like a phone, but it's free) or by email all for only $90 per hour!

Link of the Day - QuotationsPage.com

I've mentioned before that personal injury trial lawyers are always looking for quotations appropriate to arguments they make before juries. Quotations can be helpful to other people also, whatever the situation.

One of the oldest quotations databases on the Internet is QuotationsPage.com. It has lots of helpful information, and is easily searchable.

Link of the Day - Special Offers From Southwest Airlines

Whether your air travel is to represent personal injury clients and Social Security disability claimants, for other business reasons, or just for pleasure, if you live in Texas you probably fly Southwest Airlines. Now Southwest has a little program you download, and it will notify you of special deals at any ten airports you select. The application is called Ding.

Link of the Day - LinkedIn Professional Network

Most Internet users are familiar with social networking sites like MySpace or Friendster. These have become "meeting grounds" for young adults and teenagers. LinkedIn is a similar site, but aimed at professionals and business people. It's worth singing up at LinkedIn just in case you have an acquaintance who might find you there and refer some type of business to you.

Link of the Day - Time And Date Information

Whether you're a lawyer representing personal injury clients and Social Security disability claimants or a consumer just wanting information about a specific matter, the Web site at TimeAndDate.com will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about times and dates anywhere in the world, any time in the past or future. Plus, you have access to just about any type of calculator you can imagine.

Link of the Day - SkipEase People Finder

All of us who represent personal injury clients sometimes need help locating a defendant, a witness, or even our own client. SkipEase is a site with a basic people locator function, but it also has links to other useful Web sites with similar uses.

Link of the Day - Free Computer Utility Programs

Thank you Jim Calloway for pointing out a great Web site offering more than 450 free computer utility programs. You can find a program here to do just about anything you could possibly want your computer to do.

Lawyers -- Here Are Some Potential Personal Injury Clients

I'm sure we'll see some serious injuries from this. Now, if we could just figure out whom to make a claim against...

How to run up a wall.

Link of the Day - Disability Etiquette Handbook

The City of San Antonio has prepared a Disability Etiquette Handbook that offers suggestions to employees who deal with disabled citizens. There is some very helpful information here for personal injury and Social Security disability claimants.

Link of the Day - Yahoo Tech Section

This Link of the Day is only marginally applicable to personal injury clients and Social Security disability claimants, but we all should try to stay current with technology advances.

Yahoo has just unveiled a Technology Section that should help us better keep up to date with all the latest tech tools.