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The consideration of reaching out to an expert is as simple as calling our agency.

Are you reviewing a personal injury or death case to consider accepting it?  Are you working on a defense case and are considering an expert to refute evidence or confirm evidence?  Will the answer assist in pursuing a plea or settlement, or go to trial?

There are many questions to consider and we can help answer them through our own subject matter expertise, and that of the experts we associate with directly and through our network of expert associations. We work with incident scenes (motor vehicle, crime scenes, etc.) regularly and as former death investigators were solely responsible for our scene work and evidence detection, collection, handling, and analysis; as well as the review of all records to support the investigation. 

Our expert consultations include reviews of the investigative records, reports, and photographs to determine the nature and dynamics of death and serious bodily injury - were they defense wounds, self-inflicted wounds, is the scene staged or was evidence handled properly?  Many questions arise in properly defending your client or in civil litigation and we can help.  We can assist with scenes, photography, evidence collection, fingerprints, alternate light sources, death and injuries with causation, law enforcement reports, and medical records reviews; and many other areas of forensics.

Areas of extensive training and experience, and expert referrals:
  • Motor Vehicle Collision Scenes
  • Workplace Scenes
  • Causation of wounds, personal injuries and death
  • Evidence - including alternate light source, fingerprints and DNA collection
  • Medical Records, Law Enforcement Reports and Autopsy Reports
  • Bloodstain and Blood spatter
  • Fingerprints
  • Photography
  • Evidence Collection
  • Questioned Documents
  • Autopsies and Procedures
  • Interview and Interrogation Techniques
  • Communication with your expert
  • Assistance at depositions, hearings and trials
The following are services provided by our agency and affiliated expert forensic consultants
As expert consultants and legal investigators of death and injury causation, we are affiliated with a board certified forensic pathologists (and a national network) and board certified forensic toxicologist, as well as accredited forensic toxicology laboratory.  From our education, training and experience as medicolegal death investigators, we have developed this forensic team as the unique equivalent of a private medical examiner consulting agency.

The following are the specialized independently provided by our expert consultants - these are direct referrals and not invoiced by our agency.  We will assist in making consultation arrangements.
  • Forensic Autopsy (including second):  Our consulting Forensic Pathologist will first consult to determine if an autopsy is necessary and make necessary arrangements.  Based upon the forensic autopsy and information provided (we recommend one of the above investigative protocols), a medical opinion as to the cause and manner of death is provided.  Toxicology and analysis is extra and dependent upon the circumstances.  Verbal consultation and/or written report available.

  • Forensic Autopsy Assistant Services:  Our Board Certified Forensic Pathologist completes a full or partial autopsy.  A medical opinion is rendered as to cause and manner of death.  Includes toxicology and microscopic analysis.  Recommended for Life Insurance Companies on large exposure policies, Worker Compensation Carriers and Administrators on fatal claims, and Individuals where medical questions arise from a death where an autopsy is not otherwise completed.

  • Exhumation and Autopsy:  We will observe and assist with the exhumation process, including disinterment and autopsy

  • Forensic Pathologist Review and Consultation:  Our consulting Forensic Pathologist will review our written report (a written report must be provided), and review the office records, reports and photographs.  Our team will consult on the official cause and manner of death.  Verbal consultation and/or written report available.

  • Forensic Toxicologist Review and Consultation:  Our consulting Forensic Toxicologist will review our written report (a written report must be provided), and review the office records, reports and photographs.  Our team will consult on the official cause and manner of death or injury causation.

  • Medical Record Review and Interpretation: Medical records are expertly reviewed by our consulting medical doctors.  Verbal consultation and/or written report available.

Affiliated Forensic Experts
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We believe that medicolegal investigation and consultation is a team effort.  Stephen J. Cina, MD, Harold Schueler, PhD are affiliated experts with our agency in their respective fields, offering our clients comprehensive medicolegal services.
  • Dean began working with Forensic Pathologist Stephen Cina MD, in late 2002 and Karen in late 2004, as death investigators and forensic autopsy assistants. Dr. Cina recently served as the Chief Medical Examiner of Cook County IL (Chicago metro area). He currently works in the the Rocky Mountain west providing autopsies to multiple jurisdictions. Through Cina and Cina Forensic Consulting, he provides private consultations nationally.
  • Dr. Schueler is currently the Assistant Professor of Forensic Biology for the Department of Biological & Allied Health Sciencesis at a mid-western university. He has recently served as the Laboratory Director in a private laboratory in California, and a Chief Toxicologist for over 22 years at government laboratories in Cincinnati, Ohio and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Through Forensic Toxicology Consulting Services, he provides private consultations nationally.

Medicolegal investigation, including forensic pathology and forensic toxicology are not limited to death investigation, but are applicable to personal injury and injury causation investigations.

Each of our affiliated experts can be contacted through our office.

If you have any questions about what we offer in an expert death case review, contact our agency:
Office (970) 480-7793 ~ Fax (970) 480-7794
Email our Dean and Karen - associates@DeathCaseReview.com

We thank you for considering our agency for your Expert Consultations and Legal Investigations in Personal Injury, Negligence & Death in Civil, Criminal and Probate litigation, with an emphasis on cases involving Death and Serious Bodily Injury. Please contact us for your free initial case evaluation!
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