Free tools for medical malpractice attorneys and legal nurse consultants

No login. No email required. Built by the physician-reviewed team at MedLegal AI for plaintiff and defense practices.

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FREE · 50 STATES + DC · NO SIGNUP

Nurse Staffing Ratio & Nursing-Home Staffing Lookup

Was the unit legally understaffed? Pick the state and the setting. See whether the state mandates hospital nurse-to-patient ratios, staffing committees or public disclosure (statute cited), the nursing-home minimum hours per resident day, where the federal CMS staffing rule stands in 2026, and the exact records that establish staffing on a given date (PBJ data, staffing sheets, acuity tools), with a copy-ready summary.

→ Look up the staffing rule

FREE · CALCULATOR · NO LOGIN

Weight-Based Dose Checker (pediatric and adult)

Enter the drug, the patient's weight, the dose given, route and frequency. Get the mg/kg per dose and mg/kg/day, the published mg/kg reference range for common drugs with its cited source, a flag when the dose falls outside it, and the records that settle the question (order, MAR, pharmacy verification log, weight documented at the time of the order). Math only, no AI, nothing leaves your browser except the drug name.

→ Check a dose per kilogram

FREE · AI · NO LOGIN

Hospital Policy vs. What the Chart Shows

Paste the institution's own policy or protocol and the chart excerpt. Each policy requirement is pulled out with its timing or threshold and lined up against what the chart documents as met, not met, unclear or not applicable, every finding quoted, plus flags and the records to request (policy version in force, staffing, education, audit logs).

→ Compare policy to chart

FREE · 42 CFR 411.37 · NO SIGNUP

Medicare Conditional Payment (MSP) Estimator

How much does Medicare actually take out of the settlement? Enter the gross settlement, attorney fees, costs and the BCRC conditional payment figure. See Medicare's reimbursable amount after the procurement-cost reduction, the net to the client, estimated interest after the demand, and a BCRC timeline checklist with the appeal and waiver forms named.

→ Run the Medicare lien math

FREE · AI · NO LOGIN

Incident Report vs. Chart Comparator

Paste the incident or occurrence report and the chart notes for the same event. Get the two accounts side by side, discrepancies in time, location, witnesses, sequence, injury, notification and intervention with quotes from both, late entries and addenda called out, a who-was-notified grid, flags, and the audit trails and files to request.

→ Compare the two accounts

FREE · 20+ SPECIALTIES · NO SIGNUP

Expert Witness Fee Benchmark by Specialty

What should the expert cost? Pick the specialty (physician subspecialties, nursing, LNC, life care planner, vocational, economist) and the role (review, deposition, trial). See the survey medians and reported ranges with their sources and year, how fees are usually structured (retainer, minimums, cancellation), the court rulings that cut excessive rates, and a paste-ready fee-expectations paragraph for the engagement letter.

→ Benchmark an expert's rate

FREE · 50 STATES + DC · NO SIGNUP

HIPAA Authorization Form Generator

Build a records-release authorization that meets every 45 C.F.R. § 164.508 core element and required statement, with the state-specific lines for mental health, HIV, substance use (42 C.F.R. Part 2) and genetic information where your state demands a separate consent. Copy, download or print; nothing you type leaves your browser.

→ Generate an authorization

FREE · 50 STATES + DC · NO SIGNUP

Comparative Fault Settlement Calculator

What is the case worth after the plaintiff's share of fault? Enter the damages, the plaintiff's percentage and up to five defendants (settled or not). See recoverable damages under the state's pure, modified or contributory rule, each defendant's exposure under its joint-and-several rule, the effect of settlements two ways, and a 0–60% sensitivity table.

→ Run the numbers for your state

FREE · AI · NO LOGIN

Nursing Home Chart Audit

Paste care plans, MDS excerpts, nursing notes, incident reports, weights and orders. Get the resident snapshot, care-plan gaps, a falls table with post-fall and care-plan checks, a weight chart with percent-change flags, nutrition and medication concerns, physician-notification audit and the records to request next. Built for nursing-home neglect cases.

→ Audit the chart

FREE · IMAGING AND PATHOLOGY · NO LOGIN

Imaging Report Timeline and Missed-Finding Comparison

Paste radiology, pathology or echo reports and get a dated study-by-study timeline, each finding tracked from first mention to every later study, recommendations with no documented follow-up, findings-vs-impression discrepancies, and the records to request next, every item quoted from the report.

→ Compare imaging reports

FREE · AI · NO LOGIN

EMS Run Report Decoder

Paste an ambulance patient care report. Get the eight prehospital time stamps with the exact words they came from, the response, on-scene and transport intervals computed in code, a vitals table, every intervention with its documented response, the destination decision, flags and the records to request (CAD log, 911 audio, ePCR audit trail, monitor download).

→ Decode the run report

FREE · AI · NO LOGIN

Discharge Instructions vs. What Happened

Paste the discharge summary, the instructions the patient was given and any return-visit or readmission notes. Get the instructions by category, follow-up arranged vs. scheduled, the return precautions matched against what actually happened, the gaps and the records to request next. Built for failure-to-warn and premature-discharge cases.

→ Compare the discharge

FREE · DEPOSITION · UP TO 40 PAGES · NO LOGIN

Deposition Transcript Summarizer

Paste a transcript and get the witness summary, key admissions with page:line cites, contradictions and hedges, a timeline of dated facts, exhibits referenced, follow-up questions and errata candidates, every item quoted verbatim from the transcript.

→ Summarize a deposition

FREE · AI · NO LOGIN

Anesthesia Record Analyzer

Paste the pre-op evaluation, intra-op vitals log, medication log and PACU notes. Get the case card, a timed table of hypotension, hypoxia, hypercarbia, bradycardia and hypothermia excursions with duration and documented response, the medication timeline, monitoring gaps, airway events, handoffs, the PACU course, flags and the records to request.

→ Analyze the anesthesia record

FREE · 50 STATES + DC · NO SIGNUP

Medical Records Copy Fee Calculator

How much can a hospital charge for copies of medical records? Pick the state, requester (patient, attorney, subpoena), page count and paper or electronic. See the statutory maximum, the statute, the HIPAA $6.50 and cost-based rules, and a paste-ready dispute paragraph for overcharges.

→ Check a records invoice

FREE · CHRONOLOGY TOOL · NO LOGIN

Lab Value Timeline Builder

Paste any lab dump, table or note and get a dated timeline grouped by analyte — troponin, lactate, WBC, hemoglobin, creatinine, potassium, INR, blood gases and more — with critical values and rising/falling trends flagged. CSV export and copy-ready chronology rows.

→ Build a lab timeline

FREE · AI · NO LOGIN

Pressure Injury Staging & Timeline Analyzer

Paste wound-care notes, Braden scores, turning logs and MDS excerpts. Get every wound's measurements and progression, a Braden-score chart, stage-vs-description inconsistencies, prevention gaps and the records to request next. Built for nursing-home and hospital neglect cases.

→ Build the wound timeline

FREE · AI · NO LOGIN

Medication Error Analyzer (Five Rights)

Paste orders, MAR excerpts, pharmacy records and nursing notes. Each medication gets a five-rights grid (patient, drug, dose, route, time), omitted/late/wrong-dose issues with quotes, ISMP high-alert flags, a timeline and the audit trails to request next.

→ Check the five rights

FREE · IN-BROWSER · NO LOGIN

Record Review Time & Fee Estimator

Quoting a review? Enter pages by record type, the work product (screening, chronology, summary, expert support) and your rate. Get hours by task with every pages-per-hour assumption shown, manual vs. AI-assisted, a fee range and a copy-ready quote paragraph.

→ Estimate hours and fee

FREE · AI · NO SIGNUP

Medical Record Abbreviation Decoder

Paste chart text and get every abbreviation, acronym, drug shorthand and unit decoded into plain English, quoted where it appears. Ambiguous ones (MS, PE, CP, RA) are flagged with the alternatives, never guessed. Sortable table, copy-ready glossary.

→ Decode a chart

FREE · DAMAGES · NO LOGIN

Life Expectancy & Work-Life Expectancy Calculator

Age and sex in, remaining life expectancy and expected age at death out, straight from the CDC United States Life Tables, 2023. Plus a survival-adjusted work-life expectancy estimate with sensitivity at retirement ages 62, 65, 67 and 70, and a demand-letter paragraph that cites the table.

→ Look up life and work-life expectancy

FREE · DAMAGES · NO LOGIN

Future Medical Cost Present Value Calculator

List each future medical need (annual cost, start, duration or lifetime), set medical inflation and a discount rate, and get the present value, a year-by-year schedule, a 0–6% discount-rate sensitivity table and a demand-letter paragraph. Lifetime horizons from the CDC 2023 life table; rates cited to BLS and the Federal Reserve.

→ Calculate present value

FREE · CARDIAC DEVICE CASES · NO LOGIN

Pacemaker & ICD Interrogation Report Decoder

Paste a pacemaker, ICD or remote-monitoring report: device, leads, battery, programming, every arrhythmia and therapy episode on a dated timeline, the alerts, and the records to request next. Only what the report says; inferences are labelled.

→ Decode a device report

FREE · AI-ASSISTED · NO LOGIN

Birth Injury Record Decoder

Paste L&D nursing notes, strip reads, the delivery note, cord gas and NICU note. Get Apgar and cord-gas values beside the published thresholds, documented FHR findings, interventions, the decision-to-delivery interval, flags and the records still to request. Every value quoted from the text.

→ Decode a birth record

FREE · INFORMED CONSENT

Informed Consent Analyzer

Paste the consent form and the operative or complication notes. Get the risks actually disclosed, whether the complication that occurred was among them, boilerplate flagged, the process gaps, and the deposition questions, every finding quoted from the record.

→ Analyze a consent form

FREE · PHILADELPHIA · NO LOGIN

Property Violation Check

Type any Philadelphia address: open L&I violations, unsafe-structure cases, lead-paint and rental-licence status from the City's own records. The notice question in a premises case, answered in seconds.

→ Check an address

DEMO · NO LOGIN

See the AI cite its source

Watch every finding pin to the exact Bates page — click any (p.N) and jump to the record line that proves it. The fix for the 17–33% hallucination problem.

→ Watch it cite the record

FREE · NO SIGNUP · PRIVATE

AI Citation Auditor

Paste any AI-generated summary and instantly flag every factual claim with no citation behind it. Runs 100% in your browser — nothing is uploaded. Meet your ABA Op. 512 duty.

→ Audit AI output for uncited claims

FREE MASTERCLASS

Become a Medical Expert Witness

A free online masterclass for physicians: how the expert-witness market works, landing your first retention, setting your fee, and reviewing more cases in less time.

→ Save your seat

FREE · 2-MIN QUIZ

Are You Ready to Be an Expert Witness?

A 2-minute self-assessment for physicians — answer 8 questions, get a readiness score and a personalized list of the gaps to close before you take cases.

→ Get my score

FREE COURSE · 8 MODULES

Become a Legal Nurse Consultant

The full free course — taught from three chairs (nurse, physician, trial lawyer). Read records like a consultant, spot standard-of-care deviations, and build the chronologies attorneys pay for. No signup to start.

→ Start the free course

LIVE

Medical Malpractice SOL Calculator

All 50 states. Handles discovery rule, minor tolling, government notice. 30 seconds.

→ Calculate a deadline

LIVE

Damages Calculator

Economic + non-economic + present value. State caps applied automatically.

→ Calculate damages

LIVE

Lien Priority Calculator

Medicare / Medicaid / ERISA / hospital. Ahlborn, Wos, Montanile doctrines applied.

→ Calculate net-to-client

FLAGSHIP

Free Case Score

Drop your hardest declined intake (or one you're on the fence about). Candid 1-page strength report — score, payout range, recommended experts, top Daubert vulnerabilities — emailed within 60 minutes. Plaintiff med-mal only.

→ Get my free case score

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Daubert Vulnerability Workup

Submit witness name + specialty. Get a tailored Daubert challenge checklist + 40-60 cross-exam questions in your inbox.

→ Get free workup

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Malpractice Timeline Maker

Paste record text or drop a .txt/.pdf. Get a dated, page-cited timeline of admissions, discharges, ER visits, procedures, studies and abnormal labs. No AI, no login. Print or export CSV/Word.

→ Build a timeline

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Bates-Cited Record Search

Paste a chunk of medical record or deposition text. Get back every page where your phrase appears, with Bates number, provider, date, and snippet.

→ Try free search

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Medical Chronology from the EHR

See a source-linked chronology built straight from structured EHR (FHIR) data — and watch it auto-flag a diagnosis amended 20 days after the patient's bad outcome. Live demo on a synthetic missed-PE case.

→ See the chronology + amendment flag

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EHR Audit-Trail Discovery Request

Generate a discovery request for the EHR audit trail — who entered or changed each note, when, and who accessed the chart — using each system's real report name (Epic, Oracle-Cerner, MEDITECH, athenahealth) plus the legal hooks. 3 free/day.

→ Build an audit-trail request

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Hospital Lien Resolver

Paste a hospital/provider lien and settlement figures. Get a forensic bill audit, common-fund reduction math, three settlement scenarios, and a reduction-demand letter + client net-sheet. Free demo, 3/day.

→ Run a lien reduction

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AI Deposition Practice

Getting deposed? Rehearse with a realistic AI examiner that questions you like opposing counsel will — privately, as many times as you want. Composure coaching, no case facts stored. For defendants, experts & any witness.

→ Practice your deposition free

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Causation Chain Builder

Paste your case facts. Get back a structured but-for chain — breach, mechanism, harm, damages, defense attacks, and an evidence-build checklist. 3 free/day.

→ Build a causation chain

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Deposition Question Predictor

Enter case type + specialty + alleged error + injury. See the toughest cross-exam questions a skilled plaintiff attorney would ask — grouped by qualifications, standard of care, causation, and documentation gaps. 3 free/day.

→ Predict the questions

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Certificate / Affidavit of Merit Readiness

Pick a state + case type. See whether a merit affidavit is required before filing, the expert-qualification rules (active-practice / same-specialty / board-cert matching the defendant), filing timing, and a pre-file checklist. Includes the Jan 2026 Berk v. Choy federal-vs-state caveat. 3 free/day.

→ Check merit readiness

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Case Merit & Defensibility Score

How defensible is the case? Get an evidence-grounded defensibility score (0–100), a payment-probability prior, and the drivers (breach evidence, causation, documentation, diagnostic loop) — grounded in 20 years of closed-claim data (payment tracks merit: 19% paid for no-error vs 84% for clear-error). Defend / contest / resolve posture. Instant, free.

→ Score a case

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153 state-specific reference pages — SOL deadlines, damages caps, and hospital/Medicaid lien rules for every US state + DC.

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Frequently asked questions

Are these medical malpractice tools really free?

Yes. Every tool on this page runs without a login or an email address. Each tool caps anonymous use per hour; a free MedLegal AI account removes the cap and adds the full records tools.

Who are the tools for?

Plaintiff and defense medical malpractice attorneys, personal-injury attorneys handling medical records, paralegals, and legal nurse consultants. Several tools (abbreviation decoder, lab timeline, consent analyzer) are also used by nurses and physicians preparing expert reviews.

Do you store the records I paste?

Text pasted into a free tool is sent to the analysis model and returned; it is not kept as a case file. For matters you want to keep, create an account and upload the record there, where it is stored under your account with a signed business associate agreement.

Can I rely on the output in a case?

Treat every result as a drafting aid for a professional who will verify it against the record. Each tool shows what it did not find and what to request next; none of them gives legal or medical advice.

Ready to run these on your actual case files?

The free tools give you a deadline or a dollar number. The full MedLegal AI suite runs the same analysis against your own records, timeline, and experts — plus 19 more tools for chronology, demand letters, depositions, and discovery. Zero hallucinated citations (CourtListener + PubMed grounded).

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