Services - Medical Legal
Celebrating 28 years of service
We provide the following medical legal services:
- Independent Medical Evaluation
- Expert Medical Record Review
- Deposition and Trial Testimony
Dr. Chehrazi is a highly respected member of the neurosurgical community. He has had a distinguished service in academic neurosurgery for eighteen years at Yale, UCLA, and UCD, as well as over ten years of private practice. In addition, Dr. Chehrazi has extensive experience as a medical expert in medical-legal issues in neurological surgery. Please refer to his Curriculum Vitae for a detail of his accomplishments. The following is a summary of his medical-legal activities.
A LISTING OF ALL NEUROSURGICAL MEDICAL-LEGAL ACTIVITIES
PERFORMED BY B. BARRY CHEHRAZI, M.D.
From January 1990 to January 2007
A 17-year survey
| Expert Review (ER): | 157 |
| Deposition after ER: | 15 |
| Testimony at arbitration or trial: | 5 |
| Independent Medical Evaluation (IME): | 204 |
| Deposition after IME: | 14 |
| Testimony at arbitration or trial: | 5 |
| Treating Physician (TP): | 34 |
| Deposition as the TP: | 29 |
| Testimony at arbitration or trial: | 5 |
| Total testimony: | 15 |
Dr. Chehrazi has served as an expert medical reviewer and expert witness for many plaintiff and defense attorneys. Over the past seventeen years Dr. Chehrazi has worked with attorneys from a number of different States* as well as throughout California. Medical-legal fee schedule for Dr. Chehrazi will be made available upon request.
* Arizona, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia.
Pearls of wisdom:
I. What to expect of the expert witness?
| Ethical guidelines for expert witness require that the expert witness is not to serve as an advocate for either side in a personal injury or a malpractice dispute. The expert reviewer is to be fair, objective, impartial, nonpartisan, and not to adopt a position of advocacy for either side. The expert is expected to assess all available information and to advise based on his knowledge, with integrity and fairness. |
II. How to reduce the cost associated with expert reviewer?
| You can save your client money by organizing the medical records in a chronological order and removing the sometimes many duplicates from the record. It always takes more time which generates more expense when records are provided in multiple batches at different times. |
Contact Information:
For more information please contact Simi at:
Tel: (916) 771-3353
Fax: (916) 771-3443