There is a question every attorney should ask before closing a personal injury file.

Not “do we have the medical evidence?” — that is standard.

The question is: “Do we have the occupational evidence?”

Because medical evidence and industrial psychology evidence are not the same thing and a file that has one but not the other is incomplete.

Medical evidence documents what happened to the body. It covers the injury, the diagnosis, the treatment, and the physical prognosis.

An industrial psychology assessment documents what that injury did to the person occupationally, their career trajectory, their functional capacity before and after the incident, and what the injury means for their earning potential going forward.

These are two distinct categories of evidence. Both are needed. And in our experience, the occupational component is the one most often missing from files — not because attorneys don’t know it matters, but because the right referral wasn’t made early enough.

At Magethi Industrial Psychology Services, we are available for medico-legal referrals across all personal injury matters — RAF claims, medical negligence, and occupational injury. The sooner the referral is made, the stronger the occupational evidence base.

If you have matters in your current caseload where the occupational assessment is still outstanding — it is worth addressing before the file progresses further.