KW Life Care Planning prepares life care plans and medical cost projections across the most common case types in civil litigation.
Traumatic Brain Injury - Traumatic brain injury (TBI) matters involve a blow, jolt, or penetrating injury to the head that disrupts brain function. From a life care planning standpoint, TBI is distinctive because cognitive, behavioral, and emotional sequelae drive care needs as much as physical limitations do, and because the need for supervision and case management often persists long after acute rehabilitation ends. The life care plan documents every category of future care the injury makes necessary and the basis for each recommendation.
Spinal Cord Injury - Spinal cord injury (SCI) matters address the lifelong care consequences of partial or complete loss of motor and sensory function below the level of injury. Neurological level and completeness determine the scope of the plan, from equipment and supplies to attendant care and the medical surveillance needed to prevent secondary complications.
Amputation - Amputation matters involve the loss of all or part of a limb, with care needs driven by level of amputation, upper versus lower extremity, residual limb health, and prosthetic candidacy. Prosthetic technology and its replacement schedule are usually the central life care planning question, alongside the therapy, skin care, and follow-up that keep a prosthesis usable.
Wrongful Death - Wrongful death matters involve the death of an injured person, sometimes after a period of survival during which substantial care was delivered. Life care planning contributes in two ways: by documenting and valuing the care actually provided between injury and death, and, where a surviving dependent had care needs the decedent was meeting, by projecting the replacement cost of that care.
Medical Malpractice - Medical malpractice matters involve injury attributed to a departure from the accepted standard of care. The life care plan in these cases must isolate the incremental care the alleged breach made necessary from the baseline care the patient would have required anyway, which makes the causation opinions of the treating and retained physicians the foundation of the plan.
Burn Injury - Burn injury matters involve thermal, chemical, electrical, or radiation burns whose care needs are driven by total body surface area, depth, location, inhalation injury, and complications such as contracture, hypertrophic scarring, and heat intolerance. Because reconstruction is staged over years and skin care is lifelong, the life care plan must project both a surgical sequence and a daily maintenance regimen.
Personal Injury - Personal injury matters cover a broad range of physical and psychological harm arising from negligence, from orthopedic injury and chronic pain to complex regional pain syndrome and psychological trauma. Whenever an injury requires ongoing treatment, equipment, or assistance, a life care plan documents those future needs and their cost so future medical damages rest on an itemized foundation rather than an estimate.
Workers' Compensation - Workers' compensation matters involve work-related injury or illness within a statutory system that pays medical benefits under a fee schedule and, in many settlements, closes future medical liability in exchange for a lump sum. Life care planning in this setting supports settlement valuation, Medicare Set-Aside allocation, and disputes over the reasonableness and necessity of future treatment.
Motor Vehicle Accident - Motor vehicle accident matters span the full range of injury severity, from soft tissue and orthopedic injury to traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, and polytrauma. The life care plan scales to the injury: a medical cost projection for a defined course of orthopedic treatment, or a full plan when the crash produces lasting functional loss that requires equipment, assistance, and coordinated long-term care.
Birth Injury - Birth injury matters involve harm to an infant during labor and delivery, including hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, brachial plexus injury, and intracranial hemorrhage. Because the injured child has a full life ahead, the life care plan is usually the single largest component of damages and must address needs from infancy through adulthood.
Cerebral Palsy - Cerebral palsy matters, whether arising from birth injury or pediatric medical negligence, require a plan that scales with the child's Gross Motor Function Classification level and evolves through developmental stages into adulthood.
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