Brigham and Associates, Inc. provides evaluation services, nationwide, in assessing complex issues often associated with workers’ compensation, personal injury, automobile casualty, and long term disability cases. The founder, Christopher R. Brigham, MD is regarded as one of the nation’s leading authorities on the use of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the AMA Guides Newsletter. He was Senior Editor of the AMA Guides Sixth Edition and has authored over two hundred articles.
Our team is compromised of the nation’s leading physician experts on the AMA Guides and evidence-based medicine. Our clients include attorneys (defense and plaintiff), insurers, corporations, non-profit entities, governmental agencies, and health care providers. We are highly regarded for our skills in consulting, training, and expert services. We strive to reflect integrity, innovation, and excellence. We understand the challenges you face, with nearly two decades of experience and recognition as the leading experts on the Guides.
Brigham and Associates, Inc. has established standards of excellence with the review of over thirty thousand cases. Our programs provide accurate assessments adapted for all state and federal workers’ compensation programs, Defense Based Act, Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Act, international law, and bodily injury claims. We have been involved in cases in all states and serve as consultants internationally (including Canada, Australia, Hong Kong and Italy).
We are unique in that our physician consultants are involved in editing or writing the AMA Guides; our opinions are authoritative. Medical issues are often complex and require physician discernment, therefore all of our analyses are completed by a board-certified physician who understands both clinical and claims issues. This distinguishes from other organizations and assures our clients that our conclusions are both insightful and supportable.
Christopher R. Brigham, MD, the President of Brigham and Associates, Inc., is Editor of the Guides Newsletter (the AMA’s authoritative publication on how the Guides are to be used), Senior Contributing Editor for the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition and was a contributor/author for several chapters. With the Fifth Edition he served on the Advisory Committee and as a reviewer. He is also the author of over two hundred articles on impairment and disability assessment. Dr. Brigham has utilized this broad experience to train expert raters and physician consultants to provide clients, nationally and internationally, with resources designed to drive accurate impairment ratings.
