The Advantages of Hiring a Physician Life Care Planner

As a certified life care planner, we work with law firms nationwide to quantify damages, costs for future care and needs, and provide documentation to present as demonstrative evidence at trial.

Life care planning includes objectively documenting:

1. A person’s condition
2. Requirements for ongoing care and additional needs in his/her life
3. Probable effects on life expectancy
4. Costs for ongoing care and other needs

The challenge that many attorneys run into is that few life care planners are professionally qualified to substantiate the basics.

You may have worked with Life Care Planners in the past who were nurses, occupational therapists, or other medical professionals. Although they certainly offer expertise in their field, they are bound by the limits of their professional license. 

When hiring a life care planner, carefully consider the advantages of a physician’s authority and expertise:

• An M.D. can independently formulate their own medical opinions.
• A physician can independently make, question, or defend recommendations for ongoing medical care.
• An M.D. can ask other doctors questions that may not have come up in a report or that may not have been considered yet.
• An M.D. has the ability to educate legal council and other stakeholders on the pathology of injuries in plain English.