[The use of the principles of the theory of criminal identification in researching the objects of forensic medical expertise].

Possibility of using principles of criminalistic identification theory in investigation of objects of medicolegal expert evaluation is discussed. These principles were analyzed and shown to extend the objects of medicolegal identification, which however possess certain features influencing the specific character of their investigation.

[Urgent problems of forensic medical expert evaluation of disability in civil suits].

The author discusses urgent medicolegal problems related to evaluation of the degree of occupational disability, necessity of additional diet for victims, which arise in connection with civil actions of persons who underwent non-occupational trauma.