Independent Expert Witness & Litigation Consultant

Six Experts in One

John M. Daniel, D.O.

Internal Medicine Physician • Family Nurse Practitioner • Registered Nurse • EMT • Law Enforcement Officer • Corrections Officer • Corrections Medicine

Complex cases often involve more than one professional standard. Dr. Daniel provides independent expert analysis informed by experience across six professional disciplines.

SERVING DEFENDANT AND PLAINTIFF ATTORNEYS NATIONWIDE

Why Six Experts in One?

A single case may involve physician care, nursing care, EMS response, restraint practices, law enforcement decisions, and correctional operations. Dr. Daniel evaluates how these issues intersect and provides objective opinions based on the evidence, applicable standards, and professional experience.

Practice Areas

  • Correctional Medicine and In-Custody Death
  • Corrections, Policies and Procedures
  • Police Use of Force and Restraint-Related Injury, Standards, Policies and Procedures
  • Medical Malpractice and Internal Medicine
  • Registered Nursing and Nurse
  • Practitioner Standards of Care
  • Emergency Medical Services
  • Death Investigation Review

About Dr. John Daniel

Experience Across Six Professional Disciplines

John M. Daniel, D.O., is an independent expert witness and litigation consultant whose career spans internal medicine, family nurse practitioner practice, registered nursing, emergency medical services, law enforcement, and corrections.
His multidisciplinary background provides an integrated perspective in cases involving overlapping medical, nursing, emergency-response, correctional, restraint, and law-enforcement issues.
His additional experience includes hospital medicine, correctional healthcare, military medicine, SWAT operations, death investigation, firearms instruction, and service as a RIPP Restraint Master Instructor.
Dr. Daniel provides independent case review, expert reports, affidavits, depositions, trial testimony, rebuttal opinions, and consultation for plaintiff and defense counsel.

Professional Focus
  • Objective, evidence-based review
  • Clear explanation of complex medical and operational issues
  • Analysis of overlapping professional standards
  • Service to plaintiff and defense counsel
  • State and federal litigation support nationwide
A portrait of Dr. Daniel

Practice Areas

Correctional Medicine and In-Custody Death

Medical care in jails, prisons, and detention centers; intake screening; chronic disease management; suicide prevention; medication management; correctional healthcare policies; deliberate-indifference allegations; and in-custody death.

Police Use of Force and Restraint

Use-of-force analysis; restraint-related injury or death; handcuff injury; SWAT operations; tactical medicine; arrest-related medical issues; and officer response to medical or behavioral emergencies.

Medical Malpractice and Internal Medicine

Hospital medicine, internal medicine, primary care, delayed diagnosis, failure to diagnose, failure to treat, clinical decision-making, documentation, and physician standards of care.

Nursing and Nurse Practitioner Standards

Assessment, documentation, medication administration, monitoring, supervision, clinical judgment, registered-nursing standards, and advanced-practice nursing.

Emergency Medical Services

Prehospital assessment, emergency response, scene management, trauma care, transport decisions, airway management, and restraint during transport.

Death Investigation and Toxicology

Medical-record review, autopsy correlation, toxicology interpretation, medical causation, restraint-related death, and medical-legal death investigation.

Litigation Services

Initial case screening and consultation; Medical-record and policy review; Expert reports and affidavits; Depositions and trial testimony; Rebuttal review and opinions