LexisNexis MedMal Navigator is an end-to-end medical malpractice litigation solution that provides attorneys with the critical information and insights they need to evaluate complex medical malpractice cases and formulate a winning strategy. Access authoritative medical and legal information, including the most highly litigated medical topics. Gain a quick understanding of the medical issues with access to over 1600 Elsevier medical journals, images, definitions, illustrations and abstracts. Leverage the tool's built-in standard of care analysis to quickly see if a deviation in the standard of care occurred. MedMal Navigator's built-in case value assessment also helps you determine the best course of action for your case and surfaces comparable verdicts and settlements. For the first time, now you can manage your medical malpractice cases with never-before ease, speed and confidence.
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1. LexisNexis MedMal Navigator®
The LexisNexis MedMal Navigator solution gives you quick
access to the premier medical and legal information you need
to evaluate complex medical malpractice cases. MedMal
Navigator® combines your case facts with unmatched content,
providing you with critical insights to formulate winning
strategies. All with never-before ease, speed and confidence.
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NOW I UNDERSTAND THE MEDICINE TOO.
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2. LexisNexis MedMal Navigator®
The only place to go for on-point medical and legal research
that’s matched to your case facts.
MedMal Navigator provides attorneys with an end-to-end medical malpractice research solution,
helping them get up to speed quickly on their cases while reducing expenses.
From a single, interactive dashboard, you can:
• Access authoritative medical research, medical images and legal research—in one place
• Quickly understand the medical issues relevant to your case
• Determine the applicable standard of care and quickly see whether a deviation has occurred
• Locate the right expert for your case and research their background and case history
• Compare similar verdicts and settlements and assess case value
• Retrieve targeted legal research specific of your case
The MedMal Navigator Interactive
Dashboard
The MedMal Navigator dashboard was built
around the six critical tasks of managing a
medical malpractice case and uses highly
sophisticated Q&A technology developed
by doctors, nurses and attorney-editors.
How it works
Simply provide contextual information about
the facts of your medical malpractice case,
the medical condition and jurisdiction.
MedMal Navigator then quickly delivers
results customized to your specific case.
MedMal Navigator Interactive Dashboard
3. The intuitive and innovative “dashboard” quickly takes you from preliminary case
assessment to formulating your case strategy
The six critical task-based areas (or pods) of the MedMal Navigator litigation tool are as follows:
Medical Research
Standard of Care Analysis
Find Expert Witnesses
Case Value Assessment
Research Parties
Legal Analysis
Conduct comprehensive Medical Research through
Elsevier’s First Consult pod and the Medical References tab.
Be confident in your understanding of the medical issues involved in your case
while saving time and expense.
The MedMal Navigator all-in-one tool brings
you the same premier medical information that
doctors use—including access to the extensive
database of medical information from Elsevier,
the world’s leading provider of science and
health information.
• Search across the most highly litigated topics.
• Access over 1,600 Elsevier® medical journals
in a single click, plus thousands of medical
definitions, medical guidelines, journals,
abstracts and medical images.
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4. Conduct Standard of Care analysis
With built-in standard of care analysis, quickly see if a deviation in the standard
of care may have occurred.
The exclusive MedMal Navigator Q&A
technology matches the facts of your case
against current standard of care guidelines
… helping you quickly assess the potential
shortcomings in standards of care.
• Quickly grasp the medical guidelines and
standards of care that apply to your case.
• Identify potential breaches in the standard
of care before consulting with an expert.
• Determine if elements of negligence exist—
and to what degree.
• Stay current on evolving standards of care.
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Compare similar Verdicts and Settlements
Evaluate the risk to prosecute or defend a case with in-depth verdict and settlement
intelligence that’s delivered specific to your case
Research the outcomes of cases similar to
yours, and quickly determine the best way to
proceed with your case. Simply enter the facts
of your case and MedMal Navigator delivers
verdicts and settlements from comparable
cases, allowing you to:
• See how comparable cases have resolved
in the past
• Estimate the value of proceeding or settling
• Dig deeper into specific case dockets and
documents
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5. Find and Research Expert Witnesses
Find and research the best experts for your case by medical condition
and jurisdiction, including their past case involvement and background.
An expert witness can make or break your
case—this makes finding just the right expert
imperative. The MedMal Navigator solution
makes it easy to identify, vet and investigate
expert witnesses—your own and your opposition’s.
• Quickly locate experts by medical condition
and jurisdiction.
• Research an expert’s background, testimonial
history and case involvement.
• Gain additional insight with revealing charts
and graphs that show an expert’s
experience at a glance.
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Research all parties involved in your case
Investigate all key players—plaintiffs, defendants, opposing counsel,
jurors, witnesses and more
Leveraging the industry’s largest, most-trusted
collection of public records, MedMal Navigator
can provide insights into all key parties involved
in your case.
• Vet clients carefully before taking their case.
• Investigate hospitals, nursing homes and
other entities.
• Examine jurors and lay witnesses.
• Research your opposition.
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