About the Course
Introduction
This CLE webinar will discuss medical record falsification in nursing home cases: what it is and what it is not, how to detect and expose it, and how to use it.
Description
Not much will inspire a jury more to punish the defendant than finding out someone has falsified nursing home medical records to cover up patient neglect or bad outcomes. Even more so if future caregivers relied on false records to make treatment decisions. But falsification happens more frequently than many attorneys realize, notwithstanding the advent of electronic medical records.
Often people falsifying medical records want to make it as difficult as possible to spot, so counsel reviewing these records have to know what constitutes "badges" of falsification. Honest updates to medical records with appropriate dates and explanations may well be necessary, so it is important to recognize what types of changes in records are and are not concerning.
If falsification is suspected, then plaintiff's counsel needs to have a strategic, pre-planned course of action to expose it and use it for maximum effect.
Listen as this panel offers guidance on the signs of record falsification, when and how to investigate, and how to strategically use evidence of falsification.
Presented By
Michael Brusca is a partner at Davis & Brusca, LLC and resides in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. He holds a juris doctor (JD) from the Temple University School of Law. Since 2009, Michael has devoted his practice to representing vulnerable people and their families in abuse, neglect, and death cases in nursing homes, rehabs, assisted-living facilities, group homes, and hospitals. Education: JD, Temple University School of Law, 2002
Mr. Carter has devoted his career as an attorney to protecting patients and their families in cases involving nursing home and assisted living neglect and abuse. He graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991. Mr. Carter started his career as a lawyer in Houston, Texas with one of the best and largest law firms in the country. He returned home to Virginia in 1997. Since then, Mr. Carter has personally handled hundreds of claims and cases against nursing homes and assisted living facilities in Roanoke, Salem, Lynchburg, Charlottesville, Richmond, Norfolk, Danville, and across Virginia. He is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, the American Geriatrics Society, the Nursing Home Litigation Group of the American Association for Justice, and the Christian Trial Lawyers Association.
Ms. Shore-Toca is a plaintiff’s attorney who represents clients in cases involving sexual assault, medical malpractice, birth injury, nursing home abuse and neglect, assisted living abuse and neglect, community integrated living arrangement (CILA) abuse and neglect, dental malpractice, and other personal injury cases, including privacy invasion, slip and falls, and auto accidents. Throughout her career, she has maintained a 100% success rate in securing compensation for her clients. Ms. Shore-Toca has been recognized as a National Academy of Personal Injury Attorneys Top 10 honoree, a Super Lawyer’s Illinois Rising Star, one of The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers, a member of The National Trial Lawyer’s Top 100 Trial Lawyers, and one of their Top 10 Nursing Home Lawyers. She has handled cases that have been highly publicized in the media, including CBS, ABC local news, NBC 5 Chicago Nightly News, AARP, Law360, The Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post.
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This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.
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Date + Time
- event
Thursday, March 12, 2026
- schedule
1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT
I. Defining falsification of medical records
II. Reasons for falsification
III. Frequently falsified categories of data
IV. What to look for to uncover falsification
V. Strategies for savvy investigation
VI. Using evidence of falsification
VII. Addressing explanations, defenses, or mitigation arguments
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- How should necessary modifications to the medical record be made and documented?
- Who is normally authorized to make changes?
- What issues arise when the persons making fraudulent changes cannot be found?
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