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Life Care Planning

Considerations When Hiring a Damage Expert for Your Personal Injury Case

Considerations When Hiring a Damage Expert for Your Personal Injury Case

You have a case that requires a damage expert.  What would be the decisions an attorney needs to make about who to hire? First, you need someone with the academic training and certification to measure objectively your client’s/claimant’s physical aptitude, achievement, temperament, interests, and personality traits.  This professional will need to compare your client’s preinjury […]

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The Difference Between a Medical Cost Projection and a Life Care Plan

The Difference Between a Medical Cost Projection and a Life Care Plan

When looking at future medical expenses, there are many ways to estimate and project your actual, real-world costs. However, the nature of these projections can vary greatly. For mediation or settlement, the process isn’t as extensive as cases that will require deposition and trial. Therefore, it’s important to understand the differences between a medical cost […]

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Spinal Injury Life Care Planning

Spinal Injury Life Care Planning

Do you have the skill set to know if opposing counsel is over or under representing the medical and service needs of your spinal cord injury client/claimant? It is important to develop a life care plan based on the neurological level of injury not just the bony level of injury. Overall the annual rate of […]

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The Needs of a Pediatric Burn Patient

The Needs of a Pediatric Burn Patient

If your client, or someone you know, has been seriously injured by a burn, this article can help you better understand burns and how a life care plan will quantify the recommendations of the physicians to build a strong foundation for your case. There are approximately 120,000 children (300 per day) that require medical attention […]

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Common Issues for Pediatric Organ Transplantation Patients

Common Issues for Pediatric Organ Transplantation Patients

A life care plan for pediatric patients undergoing organ transplantation is important to realize the full scope of the costs and common associated risks. Dramatic improvements in graft and patient survival rates has increased within the past 10 years. Improvements in immunosuppressive medications has also enhanced organ transplants. Children awaiting transplants share some common issues: […]

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How A Life Care Plan Can Help Your Head Injury Case?

How A Life Care Plan Can Help Your Head Injury Case?

The brain, as the neurological control center for the body, affects almost every aspect of physiological functioning. Certified Life Care Planners can assist the plaintiff or defense in developing actual future medical damages. Layman “Life Care Planners” do not have the academic training to determine the real needs of the injured or the years of […]

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Is Your Amputation Case Fully Supportable for the Client/Claimant’s Care?

Is Your Amputation Case Fully Supportable for the Client/Claimant’s Care?

A knowledgeable Expert (a Certified Life Care Planner) can provide the best outcome with the research and references needed. Ron Smolarski is a Certified Life Care Planner with decades of experience researching and preparing complete Life Care Plans for Amputation Cases. This knowledge will give your case the fully supported, reasonable, usual and customary support […]

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Ron Smolarski’s Reports with His Testimony Are a One – Two Punch of Dependability.

Ron Smolarski’s Reports with His Testimony Are a One – Two Punch of Dependability.

Ron’s reports can cover up to 4 experts’ testimony (Life Care Planner, Vocational Expert, Functional Capacity Evaluator, and Forensic Economist). The reports are streamlined and co-ordinate smoothly with medical/scientific support for the data used and the conclusions determined. Ron and his team conducted a study of Spinal and Head injury cases that resolved in a […]

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