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Leading Cardiologist

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Life Expectancy Consultant

Dr Sestier has been a consultant and Medical Director for different Insurance Companies for close to 30 years

For expert’s opinion about Life Expectancy calculation

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Medicolegal Expertise

Dr Sestier has more than thirty years of experience in disability claims and medical liability issues

For Cardiology consultation and medicolegal expertise

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Biography

As a medico-legal expert cardiologist or arbitrator, Dr Sestier has more than thirty years of experience in disability claims and medical liability issues, both for plaintiff and defense sides, testifying in front of civil or administrative courts in Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia and California. As an insurance medicine expert Dr Sestier has been consulted for many litigation issues, such as insurability, underwriting, disability, travel insurance, and critical illness definition. Dr Sestier developed also an expertise in Life Expectancy calculation, reviewing in 15 years more than 8,000 scientific publications reporting mortality for more than 400 medical conditions.

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Dr Sestier recently published in 2020

Expertise 101

Dr Sestier recently published in 2020 a French multi-author textbook (“Expertise 101”), summarizing the basic medico-legal knowledge that all medical experts in Quebec should master to write quality expert medical reports in the province of Quebec. This is the first and only textbook on how to give an expert opinion in the province of Quebec.

The different co-authors of this book with expertise in varying fields covered wide-ranging topics needed to master the art of writing a sound Independent Medical Evaluation (IME).  This textbook covers the following, among many other topics:

  1. The duties of the medical expert
  2. The musculoskeletal IME
  3. The psychiatric IME
  4. Return to work and functional limitations
  5. New rules for the experts under the new Quebec code of civil procedures
  6. Liability medical expertise
  7. Potential bias in expertise
  8. The rebuttal expertise
  9. Surviving the cross examination
  10. The expectations of Quebec government and private insurers.
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International Code of Medicolegal Ethics

Introduction
This proposed International Code of Medicolegal Ethics “the Code” is meant to supplement the World Medical Association International Code of Medical Ethics in areas of medicolegal practice. When accepting a medicolegal mandate, the health care professional assumes a different role from that of a treating health care professional. Based on best practices and international case law, the Code provides guidance to physicians and other regulated healthcare professionals who perform third party medicolegal evaluations and act as expert witnesses …
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Testimonial from The Single Joint Expert

On 26 April 1999, new Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) was introduced in the UK in response to Lord Woolf’s report on the civil justice system. Lord Woolf identified excessive cost, delay and complexity as the key problems facing the civil justice system. The role and use of expert evidence was identified as not only one of the two major causes of these problems, but was identified as the “subject that caused the most concern”. This was not surprising given that parties to litigation were all too often using too many experts, many of whom being not only superfluous to requirement but irrelevant to the issues in dispute …
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501, 2021

EXPERTISE 101:

EXPERTISE 101: FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES FOR WRITING AN IME IN QUEBEC Scientific director: Dr. François Sestier In collaboration with Dr. Georges L’Esperance and Dr. Michel Lacerte 2020, Thomson Reuters. ISBN 978-2-89730-662-5. This collaborative textbook covers the [...]

1011, 2020

Workers Compensation

Dr. Sestier is an expert for CNSST (Quebec WCB) for causation issues and assessment of Permanent Impairment. He testified several times in front of TAT (Tribunal administrative du travail, Previously name CLP ) for injuries arising occurring [...]

1109, 2020

Personal Injury

Both simple and complex personal injury claims, including assessment of damages, instructed by both claimant and respondent. His predominant area of expertise includes Orthopaedic and Traumatic conditions arising from injuries suffered at Work, with Recreational [...]

3003, 2020

Medical Negligence

Medical Negligence claims are complex. The plaintiff or the defendant can be ensured of an informed, well researched, independent and sustainable opinion. Dr. Sestier has been involved in areas as diverse as the following: Ethical [...]

1412, 2019

Wrongful Death

Dr Sestier has represented both the families of deceased and those other interested stakeholders, including: Medical Practitioners, Area Health Authorities, Private Health Care Providers, Insurers, Government Departments, CSST, WCBs, employers, Coroners, SAAQ, Veterans and Army [...]

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