Balanced Medical Legal Assessments

We Specialize in expert medical legal consultation, assessment, reporting, and testimony. Our services include a thorough review of available medical and legal documentation, interview and direct assessment with the individual (where permitted), use of standardized assessment tools, balanced and reasonable recommendations, reference to relevant research and statistics, and evidence-based methodology. This is synthesized into a comprehensive, easy to ready report. Our goal is to provide services, reports, and opinions that are not only highly defensible but are also educational and informative to the parties involved in order to assist in achieving a well-informed, fair, and reasonable outcome. 

Our balanced vocational evaluations and employability assessments help to determine what if any employment options might be suitable for an individual following injury or onset of a condition. These assessments can assist in determining what level of income loss an individual may have suffered as a result of an injury or a condition, to guide return to work planning, or to determine eligibility for income replacement benefits or vocational services. 

Components that can be included in the vocational/employability assessment  include:

• Transferable Skills Analysis
• Job Demands Analysis / Worksite Assessments
• Ergonomic Assessments
• Functional Abilities Evaluation (strength, range of motion, physical tolerances)
• Functional Capacity Evaluation (Cognitive abilities, memory, planning, concentration)
• Aptitude Testing
• Career Interest Testing
• Work Skills and Abilities Testing
• Labour Market Research
• Wage Research
• Return to Work Planning
• Recommendations for workplace accommodations / modifications

Occupational therapy assessments can help to determine reasonable recommendations for an individual related to self-care needs, housekeeping, home maintenance, leisure, and community engagement. Occupational therapy assessments may include assessment of attendant care needs, as well as the need for assistive devices or home modifications. We also offer occupational therapy assessments to assist in determining catastrophic status. 

A life care plan methodically outlines the medical needs of an injured individual and projects those needs over the remainder of their lifetime included costs associated with:

• Medical Treatments and Assessments
• Medications
• Assistive Devices
• Home Modifications
• Attendant Care / Self Care Needs
• Housekeeping and Home Maintenance
• Vocational Rehabilitation 

We can provide a comprehensive life care plan or a condensed preliminary cost of future care depending on your needs. 

Specialized home or community assessments examining a persons functioning in different environments and under various conditions in the context in which they are performed. A Situational Assessment involves assessing a person in a number of real-life settings to determine the their ability to perform useful function and to adapt to stressful situations. These assessments can be useful components in catastrophic determinations. 

We understand that in preparing medical legal opinions we have an ultimate duty to the court to provide fair, objective, and non-partisan evidence. Josh has significant experience in providing expert testimony in legal proceedings including testimony at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT). He has been qualified on numerous occasions as an expert witness in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and Licence Appeal Tribunal in the areas of occupational therapy, vocational assessment & rehabilitation, employability, and life care planning. His opinions have been widely accepted in legal proceedings as evidenced in written judgments available for review on CanLII

Barker v. Barker, 2021 ONSC 158 (CanLII) 

Noiles et al. v. MTD Products et al., 2018 ONSC 5984 (CanLII) 

Rathan et al. v Scheufler et al., 2023 ONSC 3232 (CanLII) 

Cox v. Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company, 2021 CanLII 18925 (ON LAT)