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THE USE OF A LIFE CARE PLANNER FOLLOWING AN INJURY by hiren joshi
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THE USE OF A LIFE CARE PLANNER FOLLOWING AN INJURY |
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Lifecare planner sounds like another fancy term for someone taking your money in turn for investing it. They often serve an important role in helping folks who have serious personal injuries understand how much and what type of help they may need for the duration of their recovery or, in some instances, the rest of their lives. In civil litigation, the concept is that someone who is injured has a forum, the Courts, to seek redress for their injuries and damages. Many times, the injuries can last for years following the injury. Assuming that the Plaintiff is entitled to a recovery, one challenge is to determine the scope and size of the recovery. A lifecare planner spends their career working together with doctors, healthcare providers, therapists and accessory providers to create a detailed matrix of care and costs for the remainder of the Plaintiffs life. In most cases the cost of a lifecare planner is not prudent unless the injuries are serious and long lasting. The example would be someone who needed a knee, eye or body part replacement. Many of those “parts” are expensive to buy, expensive to put in through surgery and require being replaced at various intervals. The treating health care provider and the lifecare planner will have to come up with a scientific formula for the plan and cost of the maintenance and replacement over the Plaintiff’s life. There are so many more aspects involved. The lifecare planner has to look at the cost of assistant devices such as wheelchairs, prosthetic devices, home nursing care and the like. Ultimately,the lifecare planner will produce a report that should be endorsed by one or more physicians and health care service providers. The lifecare planner will be subjected to cross examination by lawyers seeking to determine if the lifecare planner has properly evaluated the “probable” lifetime costs of the Plaintiff. Since personal injury litigation has a certain time frame to be started and completed (either through trial or settlement) litigants will need to have a way to project costs such as lifetime care in cases of serious personal injury. If the question of how to evaluate your injuries come up feel free to contact the staff of SHAWLAW at 713-SHAW-LAW (742-9529) to get started to on finding out about your claim.
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