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  • Years of experience with medical-legal cases.
  • Owned, operated and managed by an expert nurse practitioner.
  • Objective nursing and medical expertise for complex medical-legal cases.
CAR Medical Legal Consulting will assist determining the validity of your case. An experienced legal nurse consultant will review the facts, offering insight only a medical professional can provide.

CAR Medical Legal Consulting services are tailored to plaintiff and defense law firms dealing with medically-related litigation, insurance companies and risk-managment departments. Our proven strategies are:
  • cost effective
  • customized
  • detailed
  • timely
We Can Help, Organize and Review Your Case, Provide Other Professional Assistance, and Save You Money!
CAR Will Save You Money
Instead of hiring a medical librarian to conduct research, a doctor to perform the case review and a graphic artist to prepare the information graphics, you can utilize the services of CAR Medical-Legal Consulting.

Our an experienced legal expert will do all of this and organize, translate and review the medical records, provide a chronological layout of the facts, research and review medical literature, assist in locating expert witnesses and providing for IME. CAR will improve the client's position in your case, and save you money at the same time.


Organize Medical Records
Medical records are generally disorganized. We'll organize the medical records by tabbing and numbering them in a logical order, and we'll provide a Table of Contents so you can efficiently locate specific information.


Analyze Medical Aspects
To fully understand the case, you may need to look at several perspectives. We'll give you an edge by providing a time perspective that outlines the case chronologically. Not only will the chronological analysis help you to understand the case, these different views may allow you to uncover additional information crucial to the medical issues of the case.


Evaluate Medical History
We will describe the case, it's ramifications and create a summary defining all the medical terms and abbreviations. In addition to providing valuable insight about the medical history of the case, our record review could supply you with the following information:

  • Missing or altered documents
  • Causation or mitigating factors related to damages
  • Identification and assessment of damages
  • Standards of practice and care, and any potential deviations from those standards
  • Relevant policies and procedures implemented in facilities
  • Potential impact of Managed Care policies/procedures on the outcome of your case
Locate and Prepare Independent Medical Exam (IME)
Should the case require an IME, we will locate a qualified expert, and provide him or her with a detailed summary of issues in the case that need special attention. In addition, we can help select an RN to attend the exam as a non-biased third-party observer.


Assist Litigation Preparation
The case may require interrogatories, depositions, mediations or trial phases. We can help prepare for the medical aspects of those portions of the trial by assisting with exhibit preparation, including anatomical drawings and informational graphics.


Research the Case
Complicated cases often require many hours of detailed research. We can provide assistance with medical literature research in both traditional medical libraries and online medical resources.


Provide Expert Witnesses
We can help you identify and locate qualified expert witnesses in almost any area.


The Owner, Joyce Van Dellen, RN, CFNP, COHN-S/CM, CCM, CLNC, Owner, CAR Consulting
Joyce Van Dellen, RN,CFNP, COHN-S/CM, CCM, CLNC, has been a registered nurse for 37 years, a nurse practitioner for 24 years, and has specialized in Legal Nurse Consulting since 1993. Ms. Van Dellen is currently employed as a nurse practitioner at the University of New Mexico Hospital.

Professional History
Ms. Van Dellen's nursing positions have included all aspects of work in critical care units, intensive care units, emergency rooms, medical surgical units, maternity units, and newborn nursery and surgery units. She has had managerial responsibilities and medical case managment experience, as well as experience in occupational medicine and worker's compensation both at the state and federal levels. Her diverse experience in these varied settings and her advanced clinical practice degree provides a rare depth of knowledge and ability to clients seeking successful, cost effective outcomes to their legal cases.

Certifications and Memberships
Ms. Van Dellen's professional accreditations include: Nurse Practitioner, Certified Case Manager, Certified Occupational Health Nurse Specialist. Ms. Van Dellen's memberships include:
  • American Association of Occupational Health Nurses
  • American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
  • New Mexico Nurse Practitioner Council
  • New Mexico Association of Occupational Health Nurses

Professional Presentations
Ms. Van Dellen regularly hosts seminars and academic discussions with nurses, doctors, judges, attorneys, paralegals, insurance claims adjusters, risk managers, human resource managers.

Topics include: medical records management, vaccinations, Hepatitis B vaccines, Hepatitis B, C and HIV, Workers Compensation, work-related injuries and modified duty and nursing documentation. If you would be interested having Ms. Van Dellen speak to your organization, please give us a call.


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