title: [The role of the Medical Scientific Council's Forensic Committee in the consent judgments regarding private insurance companies].
abstract: During recent years the Medical Scientific Council's Forensic Committee has provided for the professional revision of the medico-legal experts' opinions and settled the inconsonance between inconsistent opinions. This paper analyses the relationship between the revised experts' opinions in damage suits and the consent judgments.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The author assesses and evaluates the role and importance of the revised experts' opinions by the Forensic Committee in the process of lawsuits.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The Court has evaluated positively about two thirds of the revised experts' opinions and incorporated the Committee's answers to the forensic questions into the judgments. Sometimes it has happened that the judge misunderstood the basic medical and experts' opinions terms. In certain cases the consultant doctor of forensic medicine, the expert of social insurance and the doctor of the business insurance company used different terms, which resulted in ambiguity of terms appearing in the judgments.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The author recommends to elaborate a new methodical newsletter that defines the most important experts' opinions terms and background knowledge regarding damages in a way which is clear to all, and clarifies them according to everyday practice in order to make sure that experts working in different fields and dispensers of justice use a common language.
authors.affiliation: Igazságügyi Szakértoi és Kutatóintézetek Budapesti Orvosszakértoi Intézet Budapest Gyorskocsi u. 25. 1027. drhorvath.janos@chello.hu
authors.forename: János
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Horváth
mesh_terms: D026683:Advisory Committees; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D007343:Insurance Carriers / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007883:Legislation, Medical; D017149:Private Sector; D012955:Societies, Medical; D009626:Terminology as Topic