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Considerations When Hiring a Damage Expert for Your Personal Injury Case

Considerations When Hiring a Damage Expert for Your Personal Injury Case

You have a case that requires a damage expert.  What would be the decisions an attorney needs to make about who to hire? First, you need someone with the academic training and certification to measure objectively your client’s/claimant’s physical aptitude, achievement, temperament, interests, and personality traits.  This professional will need to compare your client’s preinjury […]

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The Difference Between a Medical Cost Projection and a Life Care Plan

The Difference Between a Medical Cost Projection and a Life Care Plan

When looking at future medical expenses, there are many ways to estimate and project your actual, real-world costs. However, the nature of these projections can vary greatly. For mediation or settlement, the process isn’t as extensive as cases that will require deposition and trial. Therefore, it’s important to understand the differences between a medical cost […]

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Vocational Evaluation for Personal Injury Cases

Vocational Evaluation for Personal Injury Cases

Quality personal injury Vocational testing and evaluation involves test instruments that measure the following: reasoning, math, language, spatial perception, form perception, clerical perception, finger dexterity, manual dexterity, eye/hand/foot coordination, color discrimination, strength, climbing/ balancing, stoop/kneeling, reaching / handling, talking/hearing, seeing, work location, extreme cold, extreme heat, wetness/ humidity, noise/vibration, hazards, dusts/ fumes.  These are the […]

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MVQS Worker Trait Factor Analysis

MVQS Worker Trait Factor Analysis

Ron Smolarski, M.A., ABVE/D, IPEC, CRC, CVE McCroskey MVQS is now operational to 2030. Soon, MVQS will be operational early in 2021. A team of MVQS users tested and used the software in 2020. As testers and working with the original MVQS Programmer/ Rehab Counselor, Dr. Wattenbarger and a new programmer, Dan Bur, we are […]

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Household Chore Damages Assessment

Household Chore Damages Assessment

Ronald Smolarski, MA, CEA, ABVE/D, CLCP, IPEC, CDEII, CCM, CVE, CRC,  CRV/D, ABMP/D Abstract. Accurate and practical assessment of the monetary damages associated with disability, in terms of household chores, is a concern for vocational experts, rehabilitation counselors, forensic economists, life care planners, psychologists, accountants, and finance professionals. Such assessment requires consideration of pre- and […]

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Common Issues for Pediatric Organ Transplantation Patients

Common Issues for Pediatric Organ Transplantation Patients

A life care plan for pediatric patients undergoing organ transplantation is important to realize the full scope of the costs and common associated risks. Dramatic improvements in graft and patient survival rates has increased within the past 10 years. Improvements in immunosuppressive medications has also enhanced organ transplants. Children awaiting transplants share some common issues: […]

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Ron Smolarski’s Reports with His Testimony Are a One – Two Punch of Dependability.

Ron Smolarski’s Reports with His Testimony Are a One – Two Punch of Dependability.

Ron’s reports can cover up to 4 experts’ testimony (Life Care Planner, Vocational Expert, Functional Capacity Evaluator, and Forensic Economist). The reports are streamlined and co-ordinate smoothly with medical/scientific support for the data used and the conclusions determined. Ron and his team conducted a study of Spinal and Head injury cases that resolved in a […]

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