A life care plan is prepared by a specialized expert, typically a nurse or rehabilitation consultant, who evaluates a catastrophically injured plaintiff and lists every category of future care the person will need: surgeries, medications, physical therapy, durable medical equipment, home modifications, attendant care, and case management, each with a projected frequency and unit cost over the person's remaining life expectancy.

The plan itself is not a damages number; it is the factual input an economist then converts into a present-value dollar figure by applying cost inflation and discount rate assumptions to each line item. Life care plans are frequently the most contested piece of expert testimony in catastrophic injury cases, since opposing experts often disagree sharply about which future treatments are actually necessary.

Juricratic treats a life care plan as a structured line-item input to the damages model rather than a single lump figure, so a user can independently sweep the quantity, unit cost, and discount rate assumptions behind each category of future care and see exactly which line items are driving the total future-damages exposure.

Catastrophic injury plaintiffs commission a life care plan and a corresponding economic loss report to support a future medical damages claim at trial or mediation, while defense counsel retain a competing life care planner to challenge the necessity, frequency, or cost of specific line items and narrow the present-value total.