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Sanchez, Hearsay, and Medical Expert Testimony in California: How Physician Experts Can Improve Record Reviews
Posted on: 26-May-2026
Physician experts often review hundreds or thousands of pages of medical records before issuing an independent medical evaluation, disability opinion, utilization review, causation analysis, or expert report. Those records may include emergency department notes, treating physician opinions, Physical Therapy records, imaging reports, operative reports, impairment ratings, and prior expert reports.
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Exacerbation vs. Aggravation of Thumb CMC Osteoarthritis: Workers’ Compensation Causation Analysis
Posted on: 26-May-2026
Thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis, also called first CMC osteoarthritis or base of thumb arthritis, is a common source of hand pain, pinch weakness, and functional limitation in older adults. It is frequently encountered in workers’ compensation evaluations, particularly among mechanics, laborers, technicians, trades workers, healthcare workers, and others who use their hands repetitively.
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Lumbar Spinal Stenosis After Rear-End Collision: Causation, Aggravation, Apportionment, and Surgery
Posted on: 26-May-2026
Lumbar spinal stenosis is a common degenerative spine condition and a frequent source of medical-legal dispute. The issue becomes particularly difficult when a claimant has a long pre-accident history of progressive back and leg pain, severe central canal and foraminal stenosis on imaging, prior epidural steroid injections, chronic opioid use, and then reports worsening symptoms after a rear-end motor vehicle collision. If the claimant later undergoes lumbar decompression or fusion, the causation question becomes more complex.
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Why IME Physicians Ask About Highest Level of Education: Vocational Capacity, Health Literacy, and Disability Evaluation
Posted on: 26-May-2026
In an independent medical examination, examinees are often asked questions that may not seem directly related to the injured body part. A person being evaluated for arm pain may reasonably wonder why the examiner asks about education, marital status, job history, hobbies, tobacco use, or living situation.
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Motor Vehicle Collision Biomechanics for Physician Experts: How Crash Type Affects Injury Causation
Posted on: 26-May-2026
Physician experts are often asked whether a particular motor vehicle collision was medically capable of causing a claimed injury. The question may involve whiplash, lumbar disc injury, shoulder labral tear, rotator cuff tear, concussion, knee injury, spinal stenosis aggravation, or chronic pain after a crash.
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Sanchez, Hearsay, and Medical Expert Testimony in California: How Physician Experts Can Improve Record Reviews

Exacerbation vs. Aggravation of Thumb CMC Osteoarthritis: Workers’ Compensation Causation Analysis

Lumbar Spinal Stenosis After Rear-End Collision: Causation, Aggravation, Apportionment, and Surgery

Why IME Physicians Ask About Highest Level of Education: Vocational Capacity, Health Literacy, and Disability Evaluation

Motor Vehicle Collision Biomechanics for Physician Experts: How Crash Type Affects Injury Causation

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