Our Core Practice
Physician-Led Life Care Planning
For catastrophic injury and medical malpractice cases, Case Veritas builds specialist-integrated life care plans that translate a plaintiff's future medical needs into itemized, sourced, and defensible damages a jury can follow.
A life care plan is the backbone of future-medical damages. It projects the lifetime care a catastrophically injured person will require and attaches a defensible cost to each element, giving you a damages model grounded in the medicine rather than in argument. Done well, it survives cross-examination. Done poorly, it hands the defense a roadmap for impeachment.
Case Veritas builds these plans with 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 end to end, and the other performs formal peer review, with both clinicians signing the final report. When a case calls for it, appropriately qualified specialists such as physiatry, PT, OT, SLP, rehabilitation nursing, and seating and mobility contribute their own clinical recommendations, which the designated author reconciles through a single methodology. The result is one integrated plan, not a stack of competing opinions.
Physician-Level Clinical Reasoning
What Does a Physician Life Care Planner Add to a Case?
Physician training sharpens several judgments that sit underneath every life care plan: how a diagnosis is likely to progress, what a realistic prognosis looks like, what level of future care is medically necessary versus merely possible, how conditions interact with one another over time, what medications and procedures a given trajectory is likely to require, and, importantly, when a question exceeds the core team\u2019s own expertise and needs a specialist\u2019s input. A physician life care planner brings that reasoning directly into the planning methodology rather than layering it on as a separate review step.
At Case Veritas, Andrew Tisser is both a physician and a Certified Life Care Planner, and Gina Marra is a registered nurse, licensed clinical social worker, legal nurse consultant, and Certified Life Care Planner. On any given plan, one of the two serves as the designated CLCP author who owns the report end to end, and the other performs formal peer review; both clinicians sign the final plan. Which of them authors a particular case depends on the matter, not a fixed rule. When an injury raises issues beyond what this core team can responsibly resolve alone, appropriately qualified outside specialists are brought in, and their recommendations are reconciled into the plan through the designated author\u2019s methodology.
What a Plan Covers
Every affected system, one integrated analysis
Physician & Specialist Care
Projected physician follow-up, specialist management, diagnostics, and recurring evaluations across every affected system, established from the record before any cost is assigned.
Therapies & Rehabilitation
Physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, cognitive and behavioral rehabilitation, scoped to the plaintiff’s documented functional level.
Equipment & Supplies
Durable medical equipment, assistive technology, seating and mobility, and consumable supplies, with realistic replacement schedules rather than one-time figures.
Attendant & Home Care
Attendant care, skilled nursing, and home-health needs mapped to the level of assistance the injury actually requires, including progression over the lifespan.
Home & Vehicle Modification
Accessibility modifications, adaptive equipment, and periodic renovation costs tied to the plaintiff’s living situation and life expectancy.
Medications & Complications
Ongoing pharmacologic needs and the reasonably anticipated complications of the injury, projected with sourced, defensible costs.
Built to Withstand Scrutiny
Where life care plans get impeached, and how ours don't
Costs with no clinical basis
Every line item is tied to a documented clinical need established from the medical record before a dollar figure is attached.
A planner working outside their expertise
Discipline-specific recommendations stay attributed to appropriately qualified clinicians, not asserted by a single generalist.
Stapled-together specialist opinions
One designated CLCP author reconciles all input through a single methodology, so the plan reads as one coherent analysis.
Figures that cannot be reproduced
Sourced pricing and transparent methodology mean the same inputs produce the same plan under scrutiny.
Cases We Build For
Catastrophic and medically complex injuries
Spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, birth injury, amputation, severe burns, and polytrauma. If future care is the center of the damages, the plan needs to be led by the medicine.
Common Questions
Life care planning, answered
- What is a life care plan?
- A life care plan is a comprehensive, medically grounded document that projects the future care a catastrophically injured person will need over their lifetime, along with the cost of that care. It translates a diagnosis and prognosis into itemized, sourced, and defensible future-medical-damages figures a jury can understand.
- Who authors the plan at Case Veritas?
- Every 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 end to end, and the other performs formal peer review, with both clinicians signing the final report. Discipline-specific specialists contribute their own clinical recommendations when indicated, and the designated author reconciles that input through a single methodology.
- What is a physician life care planner?
- A physician life care planner is a physician who has also earned the Certified Life Care Planner (CLCP) credential, bringing direct clinical training in diagnosis, prognosis, and medical necessity into the life care planning methodology itself. At Case Veritas, Dr. Andrew Tisser is our physician/CLCP; he and nurse/CLCP Gina Marra each serve as designated author or formal peer reviewer depending on the case, and both sign every plan.
- What makes the Case Veritas model different from a single-planner plan?
- Most firms give the matter to one planner. Case Veritas puts two Certified Life Care Planners — from different clinical disciplines — into every final plan, one as designated author and one as formal peer reviewer, with both signing. Because one of the two is a practicing physician, physician-level medical reasoning is built into the methodology from the start rather than layered on as an after-the-fact review. That combination of dual-CLCP authorship and reciprocal peer review is what makes the plan reproducible and harder to impeach.
- When should I retain a life care planner?
- Retain once the plaintiff has reached maximum medical improvement or a stable, well-documented prognosis, and early enough that the plan can inform your damages model, mediation, and expert disclosures. For cases still being evaluated, Case Veritas can begin with an independent medical merit review and remain available as the medical picture develops. When future-care needs become material, the matter can transition into a separately scoped medical cost projection or life care planning engagement.
- What types of cases do you build plans for?
- Spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, birth injury, amputation, severe burns, and polytrauma, among other catastrophic and medically complex injuries on the plaintiff side.
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Physician-led, specialist-integrated life care planning — two Certified Life Care Planners, one designated author, formal peer review on every plan. See a sample plan, review services and pricing, or explore medical cost projections.
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