Karen Apy
RN, LNC, NLCP
As a legal nurse consultant, Karen has worked on hundreds of cases involving personal injury, medical malpractice, pain and suffering analysis, and product liability. She provides:
- Preparation of timelines of facts/chronology of events
- Prepares summaries/narrative reports identifying strengths and weaknesses
- Assesses alleged causation, contributing factors, and damages
- Identifies key witnesses
- Provides education and clarification of medical/legal issues to assist the legal team
- Assists in the discovery process and identities missing records
- Assists in demonstrative evidence for trial
General Information:
Karen Apy has been a registered nurse for nearly forty years a legal nuse consultant since 2000, and a nurse life care planner since 2004. Her extensive nursing background includes emergency department, medical-surgical, critical care, orthopedics, rehabilitation, as well as geriatrics.
She’s been in healthcare research, education and administration and has spent the last twenty years assisting plaintiff and defense attorneys in case preparation through medical records review, identifying deviations and adherence to standards of care, causation, and assisting with the assessment of damages.
As a nurse life care planner, Karen has provided plaintiff and defense life care plans, and medical cost projections for numerous cases involving catastrophic injuries, amputations, brain injury, chronic pain, burns, and spinal cord injuries.
over 40 years of Nursing experience
Licenses & Certifications
Registered Nurse (RN)
Certified Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC)
Certified Nurse Life Care Planner (NLCP)
Education and Training
1984 University of South Carolina, Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Specialties & Experience
General Specialties
Specialty Focus
Legal Nurse Consultant, medico-legal professional in the areas of Life Care Planning, Life Care Plan Projections, and Life Care Plan Critiques for injuries, including Spinal Cord, Amputations, Burns, Brain, Birth & Cerebral Palsy