Winning the Medical Damages Fight: Sanchez, Cuevas, and Real-World Costs

Medical damages valuation is a critical issue in litigation, affecting both plaintiffs and defendants. Attorneys must navigate Sanchez, Cuevas, and California’s jury instructions to ensure that expert testimony on price is admissible, defensible, and persuasive.

This CLE provides practical tools for litigators to effectively present, challenge, and defend medical cost valuations, covering:

Building a Strong Medical Damages Case – Ensuring expert testimony meets legal and evidentiary standards.
Challenging and Defending Expert Testimony – Using Sanchez strategically to exclude unreliable opinions or protect credible valuation reports.
The Failure of Medicare Plus – Understanding why courts reject it and how to argue for a fair alternative.
Structuring Admissible Expert Reports – Leveraging Fair Market Value (FMV) for credible and legally sound valuations.
Using Third-Party Data Sources (FairHealth & Others) – When they can and cannot be used as benchmarks.
Cross-Examining Experts and Medical Providers – Effective techniques to challenge inflated claims or defend reasonable valuations.

Through real-world case studies, expert cross-examinations, and trial-ready strategies, this session equips both plaintiff and defense attorneys to argue reasonable medical prices effectively in settlement negotiations and at trial.