The certificate on the crash date
Was the driver certified, by whom, and until when? Every exam, certificate and expiry sits on 1 line against the crash date, with the examiner's National Registry number pulled from each form.
§§391.43, 391.45Medrecords AI reads the plaintiff's injury records and the driver's medical qualification file, then puts both on 1 timeline against the crash date. Every entry links to its page. Fitness and causation opinions stay with your experts.
Sleep disorders answered No. Certified for 24 months.
How fast Medrecords AI reads both files.
Medrecords AIA truck case has a federal rulebook on the driver's side that a car crash does not. These are the points where the 2 files meet, and each one is flagged with the page behind it.
Was the driver certified, by whom, and until when? Every exam, certificate and expiry sits on 1 line against the crash date, with the examiner's National Registry number pulled from each form.
§§391.43, 391.45The health history on the MCSA-5875 is self-reported. Each answer sits beside the treating records from the same months, so a No on sleep disorders lands next to the sleep study.
§391.41(b)Collection times measured against the crash time, and any required test that is missing from the file.
§382.303Every interval over 30 days, with both dates. The adjuster will find it. You see it first.
flaggedEarlier complaints in the same body region, with the page, so the degeneration argument never arrives as a surprise.
flaggedReferenced but absent: the therapy notes a referral ordered, the second exam a certificate implies. Listed with the page that points to them.
missing-records list| Date | Source | Finding | Page | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Mar 2023 | DOT exam, MCSA-5875 | Certified for 24 months. Examiner registry number on the form. | p. 18 | cited |
| 14 Nov 2023 | Primary care | Loud snoring and daytime sleepiness reported. Sleep study ordered. | p. 44 | §391.41(b)(5) |
| 9 Jan 2024 | Sleep lab | Severe obstructive sleep apnea. CPAP prescribed. | p. 51 | §391.41(b)(5) |
| 20 Jun 2024 | CPAP download | Device used on 31% of nights. | p. 63 | flagged |
| 6 Mar 2025 | DOT exam, MCSA-5875 | Sleep disorders answered No. Certified for 24 months. | p. 22 | conflicts with p. 51 |
| 13 Apr 2025 | Post-accident testing | Drug test collected 29 hours after the crash. No alcohol test on file. | p. 71 | §382.303 |
| Date | Source | Finding | Page | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Mar 2019 | Chiropractic | Neck stiffness after lifting. 4 visits. | p. 88 | prior complaint |
| 12 Apr 2025 | Emergency department | CT head negative. Cervical tenderness, collar applied. | p. 212 | cited |
| 21 Apr 2025 | Family medicine | Neck pain 7/10. Physical therapy ordered 3 times a week. | p. 240 | cited |
| 22 May to 3 Jul 2025 | No provider | No visits for 42 days. | none | gap, 42 days |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Imaging center | MRI: C5-6 disc herniation with left foraminal narrowing. | p. 301 | cited |
| 30 Sep 2025 | Spine surgery | C5-6 anterior cervical discectomy and fusion. | p. 355 | cited |
We assemble and cite what the exam reports, certificates and treating charts say. We do not say a driver was medically unqualified, that a certificate was wrongly issued, or that unfitness caused the crash. Those opinions belong to a certified medical examiner and your retained experts.
No. We lay out every examination finding beside the §391.41 standard it bears on, with pages, so the question is answerable. Whether the certificate should have issued is an opinion for a certified medical examiner or your retained expert.
A DOT certification review reads one driver’s file against the standard, usually for a carrier or an examiner. This reads 2 files in 1 case: the plaintiff’s injury chronology and the driver’s certification history, built to be argued against each other.
The gap is flagged with the date range it covers. A missing or expired certificate is a fact about the file rather than an inference, and under Part 391 it is the carrier’s obligation, so it is reported as an absence rather than filled in.
No. Medrecords AI does not retrieve records from providers or facilities. You bring the records you already have, and review starts in minutes from upload. Retrieval vendors take days. You can keep yours and still cut the review to minutes.
Book a short demo. After it we open trial access on one of your own cases, the first one free on us, with both chronologies back page-cited.
Every rule, regulation, statute and published standard named on this page is linked below to the text the body that issues it puts out, read on the date shown. Where a standard is sold rather than published, the link goes to its publisher's page for it. A few rules are named without a link, because no source we could read and confirm publishes them.