IMAS' aim to improve & streamline medico-legal assessment led to the development of the MLQuestionnaires

MLQuestionnaires - selection of comprehensive self-assessment medico-legal questionnaires for - personal and medical accidents. Also for disability assessment. In each case self-assessment MLQs saves time obtaining essential information about all the medico-legal aspects of an accident:

• Background situation [before the accident]

• Circumstances and events [of the accident including the injuries]  

• Resultant disability, and the

• Consequential needs [personal and household] of the injured person and the

• Damages

Common to both personal and medical accidents. MLQuestionnaire System provides a self assessment means of thoroughly investigating each medico-legal stage of an accident.

The basic aim of the MLQuestionnaire is to obtain, record and transfer essential information about an accident. And with the minimum of effort. The individual MLQuestionnaire is:

• Comprehensive

• Simple, [de-skilled]

• An aide memoir, and most of all

• Time saving.  

The MLQs are designed in

• Simple - No / Yes

• Normal / Abnormal format

• Recording positive and negative findings

• For use with a computer, and

• Easily administered by Clerk / Paralegal. Also

• Acts as a signed disclaimer.

Client - with the time to:

• Consider the questions

• Find information, and to be

• Assisted by Relatives and Friends.

Lawyer - for the time saved. Other advantages include:   

• Prepared statement, or at least

• Reduced time in obtaining a statement [saving of up to two hours]

• Determine the likelihood of a claim being successful [or not]

• Whether Fast Track or Multitrack

• Facilitates issuing instructions [to expert and barrister]

• Reduced case completion time [~50%]

• Completed MLQ submitted as written evidence. Also MLQs offer opportunity

• Determine resultant disability and consequential needs - damages

• Signed disclaimer, then overall use of the MLQs offer

• Opportunity to

  • Systemize

  • Speed up

  • Integrate and enhance their litigation practice, and at the same time

  • Reduce costs.

Doctor - also benefits from the use of the self-assessment MLQs by:   

• Saving time with history. MLQs sent in gives patient time to outline the history for the doctor

• Saveing time writing - history & clinical assessment - written ready for completion,

• Acting an aide memoir, and as a

• Signed disclaimer for patients who decide to change their story

• MLQ derived medical reports are normally very comprehensive, especially if

• MLQ-based medical report writing software is used. Essentially

• Report is structured on the information from the MLQ after this has been confirmed.

Court - as experience has shown judges like the MLQ approach. It appears that they like:

• Simple Yes/No answers

• Abnormal-v-normal findings

• MLQs approved as being used as evidence. Acts as a

• Resume. On occasions as a

• Judicial aide memoir