Karla Smit & Associates, LLC
Certified Legal Nurse Consultant
  "Because of my awareness of every medical and nursing issue and because I never take the chart at face value, I am able to asses medical records thoroughly for inaccuracies, inconsistencies, and
missing records."     Karla Smit
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These are just a few of the quality services that Karla Smit & Associates, LLC can provide for you:
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  • I have extensive experience with screening cases for merit.  This can keep you from wasting time and resources on non-meritorious cases. 
  • I have extensive experience with various personal injury cases.
  • ​I offer services of Life Care Plans and Cost Projection.
  • Detect clues to tampering and/or spoliation. Identify additional essential documents and/or records and other tangible items needed for further discovery could be essential to your case.
  • Personal knowledge and nursing experience allows me to assess alleged damages and/or injuries and then identify factors that caused or contributed to the alleged damages and/or injuries that could sway the outcome of a case in your clients favor.
  • Reviewing the medical record comprehensively allows me to help identify and recommend potential defendants. 
  • Identify the types of testifying experts needed and locating and interfacing with expert witnesses.  This benefit can help you by making your workload more manageable, allowing you more time to argue your cases successfully. 
  • I can coordinate and attend independent medical examinations.
  • Personal diverse medical knowledge allows me to summarize, translate, and interpret medical records and write reports that put the information into easy to understand language.  
  • Define applicable standards of care and identify deviations from and adherence to standards of care would also contribute to your case.  
  • I can consult with heath care providers and review, analyze, and summarize depositions and past testimony.
  • Because of my nearly 16 years as a case manager who floated to all areas of a "Trauma 5" hospital, I am experienced in standards of care and patient care that validate your position in your medically related cases.  ​