Alexan Legal Nurse Consulting

Alexan provides high-quality, accurate and affordable medical legal case reviews, equipping law firms and insurance companies with the information, guidance and expertise needed to triumph in today's ever-changing healthcare environment.

Broad Expertise Meets Deep Knowledge

Alexan’s array of legal medical consulting services, include highly specialized services for mass tort, toxic tort, pharmaceutical liability, product liability, personal injury, medical malpractice cases, and more. With Alexan on your team, you can focus on strategy while we take care of the time-consuming medical aspects of your case. From translating complex medical documents and locating critical facts, to assessing the merit of a claim, Alexan is here to help you save time and money and present your best case.

A History of Success

Alexan (formerly J.L. Ferguson & Associates, Inc.) was founded in 1993 by Janice Ferguson. A dedicated and highly principled legal nurse consultant, Janice was renowned for helping clients throughout the U.S. solve the complex challenges of thousands of cases. In 2009, Nancy Breedlove, a LNC with years of experience consulting for a law firm in New Orleans, Louisiana, joined Janice. Together, they operated the premiere legal nurse consulting firm in the country, providing services, such as:

• Developing case projects
• Acquiring and reviewing medical literature
• Determining necessary assessment data
• Performing searches, interviews and procurement of experts
• Preparing database protocols for case management
• Assisting in the preparation of case-specific reports
• Evaluating and assessing complicated medical malpractice issues

In 2014, after a 25-year career in legal nurse consulting, Janice retired, and Nancy acquired the firm and renamed it Alexan Legal Nurse Consultants. Nancy's leadership, direction and continued focus on providing superior legal nurse consulting services to clients throughout the U.S. has resulted in considerable growth for Alexan. Today, Alexan’s experienced and dedicated team of legal nurse consultants offer clients insights and expertise from a variety of clinical backgrounds.

Give Your Team Every Advantage

Alexan offers your case a dedicated team of legal nurse consultants skilled in identifying and meeting your needs quickly and efficiently, even when unprecedented circumstances are involved. Our consultants offer years of experience in a number of areas, including specialties such as:

• Mass Tort
• Toxic Tort
• Pharmaceutical Liability
• Product Liability
• Personal Injury
• Medical Malpractice

A Trusted Source for Top Firms

Alexan has been retained by well-respected law firms across the nation that trust our consultants to help them win cases, obtain higher settlements, and defend clients with well-researched facts. A few of the high-profile cases we have provided services for include:

We Are Here to Serve You

Accessible and reliable, Alexan is here for you throughout the litigation process. Our consultants are adept at assembling, reviewing, analyzing, and summarizing medical records and literature. We are also skilled at identifying, locating and preparing experts, who can equip your team with the medical facts and issues relevant to your case. Whatever your need, we’re here for you. Let Alexan help you:

• Review and analyze cases for merit, damages and recovery
• Research medical records, case histories, studies, procedures and protocols
• Strategize approaches, working with applicable physicians and attorneys
• Refer experts (physicians, nurses, technicians, and researchers) to render opinions and testify
• Provide on-site consultation
• Advise, prepare and brief legal staff *
• Develop questions *
• Prepare experts *
• Prepare presentation materials (i.e. x-rays, graphs, artwork) *

* As relates to discovery, mediations, interviews, depositions, and trials

Complex Cases Are Our Specialty

Mass and toxic tort, pharmaceutical and product liability, and medical malpractice cases all have different legal approaches that require special medical analysis and support to prove negligence, causation and damages. Alexan offers your team decades of expertise in performing legal medical consulting for these kinds of cases, and below, you’ll find a list of special services we provide for each one.

Mass Tort / Toxic Tort

• Develop database protocols to properly and efficiently screen cases
• Collaborate with medical record service providers
• Identify medical issues pertinent to case
• Analyze medical records
• Refer to appropriate medical experts
• Coordinate medical data and evidence
• Work with physician experts to understand and help clients apply past, present, and emerging science to the case
• Educate attorneys on complex medical issues affecting causation
• Prepare chronological medical summaries

Pharmaceutical Liability / Product Liability

• Review medical records to determine related/compensable medical injuries
• Prepare chronological medical summaries
• Refer to appropriate medical experts

Medical Malpractice

• Review and analyze medical records
• Identify standard of care issues
• Refer to appropriate medical, nursing or other healthcare experts
• Prepare chronological medical summaries
• Audit and analyze medical billing records
• Review and analyze literature related to cases