MRI scans for medico-legal claims
MRI scans arranged at imaging centres across England and Wales and reported by GMC-registered consultant radiologists, giving instructing parties imaging evidence that supports expert reports prepared under CPR Part 35.
An expert opinion is only as good as the evidence behind it, and in many injury claims that evidence includes imaging. Expert Medical arranges MRI scans at imaging centres across England and Wales, with the images reported by GMC-registered consultant radiologists. Where a spinal claim needs it, we can arrange MRI of three regions, cervical, thoracic and lumbar, in a single appointment, so the reporting expert sees the whole spine rather than one section of it.
Solicitors use MRI to confirm or exclude disc, ligament and soft tissue pathology that plain X-ray cannot show, and to give the medico-legal expert objective findings to weigh against the claimant's reported symptoms. Insurers value the same scans for the clarity they bring to causation disputes. The resulting imaging and radiologist's report feed directly into expert evidence prepared under CPR Part 35.
Reported by consultant radiologists
Every scan is reported by a GMC-registered consultant radiologist, so the instructing party receives a formal written report describing the findings, not just the images. That report gives the medico-legal expert a documented radiological opinion to rely on when addressing diagnosis, causation and prognosis in the main report.
Three-region spinal MRI
Spinal claims often involve symptoms at more than one level. We can arrange MRI of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine as a single instruction, so degenerative change at one level can be compared with trauma-related findings at another and the causation picture is complete rather than partial.
Arranged around the claim
We handle the referral, the appointment and the delivery of images and report, so the instructing solicitor is not chasing an imaging centre. Where the scan is needed before a specialist appointment, we sequence the two so the examining expert has the radiology in front of them at assessment.
Objective imaging behind the expert opinion
A causation dispute narrows quickly when there is a scan on the table. MRI gives the medico-legal expert objective findings to set against the claimant's history, and gives both parties a clearer basis for settlement, whether the images confirm the injury or rule it out.
- MRI of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine, including three-region scans
- MRI of the knee, shoulder, hip, wrist and ankle
- MRI of the brain following head injury
- Soft tissue, disc and ligament injury imaging
- Comparison of trauma-related findings with degenerative change
- Formal reports by GMC-registered consultant radiologists
- Images and reports supplied to the instructing party and examining expert
- Scans sequenced with specialist medico-legal appointments
- Arranged for personal injury and clinical negligence claims
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