Casey Strategic Prompts - Workers' Comp

The Case Lifecycle with Casey

Work Restrictions & Disability

• Create a timeline of all work restrictions documented in these medical records, including which provider issued each restriction and the dates they were in effect.
• List all periods the claimant was taken completely out of work and all periods of light duty, with the corresponding physician and dates for each.
• Which doctor first took the claimant out of work, and what was the specific diagnosis or reason documented at that time?

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Demand & Settlement Letters

•  Draft a workers compensation demand letter based on these records. Do not include pain and suffering damages. Incorporate future medical expenses and summarize the treatment history chronologically.
• Calculate a settlement value range based on the medical treatment, surgeries, and future care needs documented in these records.

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Surgery & Surgical Recommendations

•  List all surgeries that have occurred since the work accident, including the date, procedure, and performing surgeon.
• Has any provider recommended surgery that has not yet been performed? If so, what procedure was recommended and by whom?

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Medical & Treatment Timelines

• Build a chronological treatment timeline for this claimant starting from the date of injury, including provider names, visit dates, and key findings at each visit.

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Future Medical Cost Projections

• Based on the treatment recommendations in these records, project the estimated future medical costs for this claimant, broken down by procedure or treatment type.

• What is the estimated cost for the recommended lumbar fusion surgery, including pre-op, procedure, and post-op rehabilitation?

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Injury & Diagnosis Identification

• List all diagnoses documented in these records and identify which are directly related to the work accident versus pre-existing conditions.

• Are there any pre-existing conditions documented that the employer or insurer could argue are unrelated to the work injury?

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Medical Causation

• Draft a causation questionnaire to the treating physician asking them to confirm, within a reasonable degree of medical probability, that the claimant's injuries are causally related to the work accident.

• Is there any language in these records where a provider attributes the claimant's condition to the work injury? Quote the relevant passages.

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Provider Identification

• Identify all providers who have treated this claimant for the work-related injury and summarize each provider's role in the treatment history.
  
  

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