New York Life Care Planning Expert Services

In the Supreme Court of each county, in personal injury and medical malpractice actions that claim the cost of future care; before the New York State Workers' Compensation Board, where an injured worker's future medical treatment is contested; in the Court of Claims, where the claim runs against New York State; and in the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York in federal matters with a future care claim. New York's state page sets out the core counties and their courthouses.

The roster's certified life care planners, with physician support for the items within the scope of medical practice. The life care planning practice page names the planners and the physicians, with their credentials; each plan names its preparer and documents the basis for every item, so the reader knows who projected the need and where the projection came from.

Every future need the medical record and the treating providers support, listed for the person's remaining life expectancy: physician follow-up, therapies, medications, diagnostic testing, equipment and supplies, home modifications, transportation, attendant care, case management and the procedures the record anticipates. Each line states how often, for how long and at what cost basis, and the plan is revised and re-served when the clinical picture or the records change.

To the region where the person lives, from provider and supplier pricing and published fee data for that region, with the plan stating which region it priced to and why. Price, frequency and duration are kept as separate columns so that an opposing planner can test each on its own and check every price against the market the person will actually buy from.

The economist reduces the plan's items, at their frequencies, durations and prices, to present value in the forensic economic analysis, so the plan is drafted to be read by the economist as well as by the court. A vocational evaluation, where one is retained, reports the earning capacity the injury left as a separate opinion, and the two are never counted twice.

A finished plan is typically 30 to 60 days from receipt of complete records. The volume of the medical record, the number of treating providers to consult and the scheduling of the interview set the timing inside that range, and a rush timeline is arranged case by case when counsel asks for it at engagement.

Yes. Plaintiff and defense counsel retain KWVRS for New York life care plans, and the plan is built the same way whichever side retains it: the same record review, the same projection to published life care planning standards and the same regional pricing, documented so that an opposing planner can reproduce it. Counsel frames the question; the record decides what the plan supports.

New York matters are accepted at the KWVRS headquarters in Hackensack, New Jersey, where the plans are written; KWVRS also maintains a Richmond, Virginia office. Each plan is written to the forum in which the matter is pending, organized to that forum's disclosure requirements, and testimony on it is given where the forum and counsel schedule it.