Admissibility of Evidence in Nursing Home Litigation: Proving or Challenging Authentication, Relevance and Hearsay
Recording of a 90-minute CLE webinar with Q&A
This CLE webinar will prepare attorneys representing plaintiffs or defendants in nursing home injury cases to argue for or against the admissibility of critical evidence at trial. The panel will discuss best practices for authenticating and challenging the authenticity of medical records and charts, statements of parties, photographs, regulatory documents or references, and other information. The panel will provide their insights into proving or defending against the relevancy and prejudicial nature of nursing home statutes and regulations, other documents, and making or overcoming hearsay objections.
Outline
- Types of critical evidence in nursing home injury cases
- Arguing for or against the admissibility of evidence: plaintiff and defense perspectives
- Authentication
- Relevance
- Prejudicial nature
- Hearsay
Benefits
The panel will review these and other noteworthy issues:
- Types of evidence counsel for patients in nursing home injury cases frequently seek to admit or keep out of evidence
- Types of evidence counsel for facilities in nursing home injury cases often try to admit or bar from evidence
- Best practices when arguing for or against relevancy, prejudice, and hearsay when seeking to admit or keep out evidence
Faculty
Bryan A. Ruggiero
Attorney
Levin & Perconti
As a law clerk for Levin & Perconti, Mr. Ruggiero closely assisted attorneys during depositions and trials,... | Read More
As a law clerk for Levin & Perconti, Mr. Ruggiero closely assisted attorneys during depositions and trials, frequently managing deposition preparation of expert physician and nurse witnesses. He was also responsible for drafting settlement demand letters, pleadings, mediation submissions, pre-trial memoranda, and other substantive motions, including an appellate brief for a medical malpractice case involving challenges to the validity of expert testimony.
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Karie Valentino
Partner
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith
Ms. Valentino is a member of the firm’s Long-Term Care and Elder Law, Healthcare, and Medical Malpractice... | Read More
Ms. Valentino is a member of the firm’s Long-Term Care and Elder Law, Healthcare, and Medical Malpractice Practices. She has engaged in numerous arbitrations and mediations and successfully tried to verdict multiple medical malpractice cases on behalf of physicians, nurses and hospitals, long-term care facilities and its employees. Ms. Valentino is the past President of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois.
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