Frequently Asked Questions

Life Care Planning & Merit Screening FAQ

What is Case Veritas?
Case Veritas is a boutique, physician-led medical-damages practice for plaintiff attorneys. Our primary service is life care planning and medical cost projections for catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, birth injury, and complex damages cases. Independent pre-litigation merit screening is also available as a distinct service.
What is a life care plan?
A life care plan is a comprehensive, evidence-based document that projects the future medical and non-medical needs of a catastrophically injured person over their lifetime and assigns a defensible cost to each need. It is the foundation of the future damages claim in catastrophic injury, birth injury, and nursing home litigation.
What is the difference between a life care plan and a medical cost projection (MCP)?
A medical cost projection is a focused analysis of future medical costs. A life care plan is a broader, structured document that projects all future care needs across the lifespan, including equipment, therapy, and attendant care, with costs. In a free consult we recommend which level fits your case: MCP ($3,000), focused LCP ($10,000), comprehensive multidisciplinary LCP ($15,000), or a custom complex plan starting at $20,000, quoted after intake review. Outside specialist fees, when a discipline expert is retained, are scoped and quoted separately.
What makes Case Veritas different from other life care planners?
Most firms give the matter to one planner. Every Case Veritas plan is built by two Certified Life Care Planners from different clinical disciplines — a physician/CLCP and a nurse/CLCP — with one serving as designated author and the other performing formal peer review, and both clinicians signing the final plan. Because one of the two is a practicing physician, physician-level medical reasoning is built into the methodology from the start rather than merely reviewed after the fact. Discipline-specific specialists own their clinical recommendations when the injury demands it, and the designated author reconciles that input through a single methodology rather than stapling on isolated opinions.
What cases benefit from a life care plan?
Cases involving permanent, ongoing care needs: spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, severe orthopedic and amputation injuries, birth injuries such as cerebral palsy, severe burns, and nursing home neglect resulting in pressure injuries, fractures, or functional decline.
Who prepares the life care plan?
Every Case Veritas life care plan is built by two Certified Life Care Planners from different clinical disciplines — a physician/CLCP and a nurse/CLCP. One serves as the designated author who owns the plan, and the other performs formal peer review, with both clinicians signing the final report. Every projected need is grounded in the medical record and every cost in a documented source. The clinicians whose credentials appear on the report are the clinicians who did the work.
Can Case Veritas serve as a testifying expert?
Yes. Depending on the scope of the engagement, Case Veritas clinicians may provide consulting, report preparation, deposition testimony, or trial testimony. When a matter evolves from merit review into ongoing consultation or a formal life care planning or medical cost projection engagement, the scope and methodology applicable to each phase are clearly defined.
How do engagements work, and are services available in Spanish?
Start with a free 15-minute case-fit consultation, where we recommend the right level of review and quote a flat engagement fee upfront. Independent merit screening is a separate, prepaid flat fee of $1,250. Client evaluations are available in both English and Español.
What is independent merit screening?
Merit screening is a distinct, flat-rate service that tells you whether a case has clinical merit before you commit to expert retention. A board-certified physician and a legal nurse consultant independently review the record and give a clear proceed or decline recommendation. It is $1,250 with a five-business-day standard turnaround, and a 48-hour rush is available.
What types of cases do you screen?
We screen medical malpractice, nursing home, catastrophic injury, emergency medicine, hospital medicine, surgical, obstetric, primary care, and other medically complex matters across all specialties.
Who is Case Veritas for?
Catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, birth injury, and mass-tort attorneys, and anyone carrying substantial future medical damages who needs those damages proven rather than merely asserted.
How long does a life care plan take?
Turnaround depends on the scope of the plan and the volume of records. A medical cost projection is the fastest, a focused life care plan sits in the middle, and a comprehensive multidisciplinary plan takes longest because it may require a client evaluation and outside specialist input. We commit to a specific delivery date in writing at engagement, scoped to your mediation, disclosure, or expert deadline. If your deadline is tight, tell us on the consult and we will tell you honestly whether we can meet it.
What do you need from us to get started?
Medical records and billing, the basic injury and diagnosis picture, the client's date of birth, current treating-provider status, the venue, and any mediation, disclosure, or expert-deadline dates. For a comprehensive plan we will also coordinate a client evaluation, in person or remote, and ask for photos or video of the home environment where relevant. Please submit all files in electronic format.
How are records handled?
All case materials are submitted through a secure intake process and reviewed by our clinical team. Case materials are handled securely and shared only with authorized professionals participating in the engagement when clinically necessary, such as a retained discipline specialist. A confidentiality agreement is available upon request.

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