Expert Medical Witness is not free and must be paid immediately

The Attorney Fee’s usually include expenses for expert medical witness, unless a prior arrangement was made for the complainant to pay the expert witness fee’s before the expert medical  witness appears on your behalf. Its understood the expert must be paid in advance or at the time of service.

If you win your EEOC discrimination claim or get a settlement offer

The Agency agrees to reimburse Complainant for out-of-pocket medical expenses reasonably related to the allegations in this complaint, to a maximum of $15,000, that were incurred from April 1992 through May 1997 , including, but not limited to, expert medical witness fees, office visits, and medication.  Payment shall be based on documentation to be provided by the Complainant within 30 days from the date of execution of this Agreement that such medical expenses were reasonably related to the allegations in this complaint. . . .

The Agency agrees to make every reasonable effort to make payment of the substantiated amount within 60 calendar days of receipt of the documentation from the Complainant.

If you don’t win, the expert witness would not be paid by your attorney, which is why they require to be paid up front by the complainant.

Your attorney will try to convince you, that you need an expert medical witness to win your eeoc discrimination civil rights claim. This is not always true. EEOC discrimination courts are set up for the administrative judge  to weigh other witnesses an equal weight to an expert witness. While a complainants own doctor opinion matters, that is not the same as a hired gun, which an expert witness is compared to, since they really don’t know the claim or the complainant more than the time from once they were hired to look into the complainants claim.  The expert medical witness is only hired for their opinion or report. Which makes them a stranger in my book.