Designing Life Care Plans in Personal Injury Cases to Withstand Scrutiny: Accuracy, Thoroughness, Methodology

Life care plans project the lifetime care needed and the related costs for someone with a catastrophic, permanent, or persistent limitation. Plaintiffs use life care plans to establish damages, but the defense may use its life planner for rebuttal. Thus, both sides must ruthlessly evaluate the plan's vulnerabilities.

Damages include anything necessary for the health, safety, and well-being of the injured person, not limited to medications, therapies, assistive technology, architectural modifications, supplies and equipment repair and replacement, transportation, and more for the duration of the patient's life.

Each plan should include a client interview; record review; corroboration with treating providers; probable relation to the indexed event; research; customary, reasonable, and usual costs; and establish that the needs included are medically probable. The plan must be comprehensive, individualized, collaborative, and evidence and outcome-based.

Listen as this experienced panel of personal injury lawyers and an experienced nurse life care planner guides counsel in how to use and defend a life care plan.