Case types
Case stories by case type
Every scrollbrief follows the same seven beats. What changes from one practice area to the next is the record: which documents carry the timeline, where the notice lives, and what picture makes the case plain to a reader who was not there.
These entries describe the form and the records each kind of case usually has. They are not accounts of past matters.
Trucking and commercial vehicle
- What happened
- Hours-of-service logs, dispatch messages and engine data on one clock, so the reader sees the hours before the crash beside the crash.
- What they knew
- The carrier’s own file: prior violations, inspection reports, hiring and training records.
- The harm
- Medical chronology, life-care plan and wage loss, each figure opening its page.
- Signature visual
- A route map that plays the trip against the driver’s log.
Firms look for this as: trucking accident demand package, 18-wheeler settlement presentation, commercial vehicle mediation brief.
Auto, motorcycle and pedestrian
- What happened
- Police report, scene photographs, vehicle data and witness statements in one sequence.
- What they knew
- Phone records, citations and prior claims, where the record has them.
- The harm
- Treatment from the first visit forward, with bills and liens totaled and sourced.
- Signature visual
- An intersection the reader can step through second by second.
Firms look for this as: car accident demand package, policy-limits demand presentation, time-limited demand exhibit.
Premises liability
- What happened
- Inspection logs, work orders and surveillance stills placed on the day of the injury.
- What they knew
- Prior incident reports and complaints, shown as a count the reader can open one by one.
- The harm
- Surgery, recovery and lasting limits, tied to the records that show them.
- Signature visual
- A floor plan with the hazard, the cameras and the path walked.
Firms look for this as: slip and fall demand package, negligent security presentation, premises liability mediation brief.
Product liability
- What happened
- Design history, testing, complaints, and the recall or the absence of one.
- What they knew
- What the maker knew and when. The hot-coffee excerpt on the home page is this beat.
- The harm
- The injury mechanism and its cost, with the expert report a tap away.
- Signature visual
- The mechanism, drawn so a reader can work it by hand.
Firms look for this as: product liability demand package, defective product trial graphics, failure-to-warn timeline.
Medical malpractice
- What happened
- The chart on a clock: orders, vitals, notes, and the hours between them.
- What they knew
- The standard of care as your expert states it, beside what the chart shows was done.
- The harm
- Outcome, prognosis and future care, each sourced. Your medical illustrator’s plates sit inside the piece.
- Signature visual
- A timeline where each missed interval is a gap the reader can see.
Firms look for this as: medical malpractice timeline, med mal mediation presentation, standard of care exhibit.
Wrongful death
- What happened
- The event and the decisions before it, in the defendant’s own documents.
- What they knew
- Warnings given, rules in place, and earlier incidents.
- The harm
- A life told through its records and its people: work, family, the plans on the calendar.
- Signature visual
- A day-in-the-life sequence built from photographs and messages, with any video you have placed inside.
Firms look for this as: wrongful death settlement presentation, wrongful death demand package, settlement documentary alternative.
Nursing home and elder care
- What happened
- Care plans, staffing sheets and charting set against the resident’s decline.
- What they knew
- Survey citations, prior complaints and corporate staffing targets.
- The harm
- Wounds, falls, weight loss and hospital stays, each dated and sourced.
- Signature visual
- Staffing against census, shift by shift.
Firms look for this as: nursing home neglect demand package, elder abuse mediation brief, staffing timeline exhibit.
Civil rights and police misconduct
- What happened
- Body-camera stills, dispatch audio and reports on one clock.
- What they knew
- Policy, training records, and how others were treated: the comparison evidence.
- The harm
- Jail time, injury and what followed, in the client’s records.
- Signature visual
- Every comparable case as a tile, with the client’s standing apart.
Firms look for this as: Section 1983 case presentation, police misconduct demand package, retaliatory arrest comparison evidence.
Criminal sentencing
- What happened
- A life line that turns at the offense, with documented steps marked after it.
- What they knew
- What changed: treatment, work and restitution, each with a record.
- The harm
- Who depends on the defendant and what a sentence does to them, shown plainly.
- Signature visual
- A record wall: certificates, pay stubs and letters the judge can open one by one.
Firms look for this as: sentencing mitigation video, mitigation package, sentencing memorandum exhibit, clemency presentation.
Which piece fits which stage
- Before suit: an interactive demand package for the adjuster, sent with the demand letter.
- In suit: an interactive mediation brief and trial graphics for the mediator, the defense and the jury.
- Civil rights: a civil-rights case story built around comparison evidence.
- Sentencing: a sentencing mitigation piece for one reader, the judge.
What Scrollbrief leaves to specialists
Scrollbrief does not make medical illustrations or 3D accident reconstructions, does not shoot day-in-the-life video, and does not run trial presentation in court. Work from those specialists sits inside a piece, beside the records that support it.