Life Care Plans in Traumatic Brain Injury Cases: Challenging Future Damages Calculations
Recording of a 90-minute CLE video webinar with Q&A
This CLE course will guide personal injury counsel in using or challenging life care plans offered in traumatic brain injury cases to measure and present future medical damages. The panel will also explain strategies that counsel frequently use to challenge life care plans throughout a case: discovery, cross-examination of life care planning experts, and closing argument.
Outline
- Overview of life care plans
- Plaintiff strategies
- Defense strategies
Benefits
The panel will review these and other key issues:
- The evolution of life care plans and life care planners
- Analyzing items/services involved in traumatic brain injury litigation
- Discovering the life care planner's methodology
- Distinguishing medically necessary from medically beneficial
- Exploring bias and prejudice
- Critical lines of questioning when deposing a life care planner
- Addressing life care plans during mediation
- Attacking and defending life care planners at trial
Faculty
David J. Alfini
Partner
Hinshaw & Culbertson
Mr. Alfini focuses his practice on helping his clients control their risk both inside and outside of the court room. He... | Read More
Mr. Alfini focuses his practice on helping his clients control their risk both inside and outside of the court room. He has developed a national practice representing clients in a variety of matters such as construction defect, product liability, long term care, toxic exposure, premises liability and auto liability cases. Mr. Alfini is admitted to practice in California, Illinois, and Indiana. He has also been admitted pro hac vice in more than twenty jurisdictions nationwide. Mr. Alfini's clients find that this gives him a unique outlook on litigation and issues that arise in more than one location. He handles all aspects of litigation up through trial. Mr. Alfini has mediated cases in numerous jurisdictions and tried matters in Illinois, Maryland, Washington, Texas and New York.
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Dr. Richard S. Kaplan, MD, CLCP
Physician Life Care Planner
Kaplan Life Care Planning
Dr. Kaplan has gained his experience treating patients in many clinical settings who have complex pain and disability... | Read More
Dr. Kaplan has gained his experience treating patients in many clinical settings who have complex pain and disability issues involving neurolgical, orthopedic, rheumatological, and medical diagnoses. He also has extensive medicolegal and forensic experience providing medical damages, medical necessity, and causation opinions for plaintiffs, defendants, and state/federal governmental entities.
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