SUMMARY

During the medical expertise, the expert has to “draw up” like a painter as faithful a picture as possible of the model who is the victim. The expertise forms the cornerstone of the compensation of damages because it solves the question relative to responsibility (in medical cases), the link of causality. The lawyer has a significant role to help the expert in this difficult task. He must remain vigilant so that the categories of damage that must be painted on the canvas are not however reduced or minimised.

Keywords: Injury, Injury assessment, Medical expertise, Cornerstone, Lawyer, Spokesman, Investigator, Guardian of the law, Conversion.