Dr. Clinchy and colleagues of his in various positions in civilian emergency medical and the fire services, are experienced consultants and expert witnesses in both defense and plaintiff cases involving prehospital emergency medical care. Attorneys seeking such professional consultation are free to contact ESF8-CON and we will seek to find you an expert who is well suited to the case you are contemplating. 

There is no fee or obligation when we provide counsel with such a referral but most of the individuals experiences in this sort of consulting work treat such engagements similarly.  First, there is a non-refundable fee for analyzing a case.  Whether the consultant is retained by counsel or not, this fee is always payable.  At the point the consultant completes his/her analysis and should counsel wish to have the consultant continue on the case, continued services will be for an hourly fee plus all relevant expenses. 

Our track record is fairly consistent where plaintiff cases are concerned and we would say that we probably convince plaintiff counsel in over one-half of the cases that we review that they do not have a bona fide case for prosecuting either the fire service or the emergency medical services entity that was involved in the care of the patient on whose behalf counsel is contemplating suit.  In many instances, sovereign immunity makes pursuit of such cases such low-yield as to make them cases that even if won, plaintiff would rarely garner sufficient recompense.  In other cases, it is evident that the medical history is such that the outcome could not have been altered by the prehospital care rendered or the cause of injury in the contemplated negligence action was from other than the prehospital care providers.