Infant Severely Injured During Automobile Accident

Claimants are a family of four involved in a motor vehicle accident in which another driver ran a stop light. The adult male and female in the car were not injured nor was a young male child. However, a female infant riding in the car was severely injured in the accident and sustained a traumatic brain injury. The infants was life flighted to nearby hospital where she remained for six to eight weeks. Nearly one year after the accident, an attorney asked Lee Ann for consult concerning the child's current status and prognosis for her future medical needs. Lee Ann was identified physical and cognitive disabilities that have the potential to impair the child for her lifetime and evaluated the possible impact upon the family financially and psychologically. She also guided the attorney in the proper direction in order to procure the necessary medical records to date that would establish chronic disabilities and needs of the child and the necessity of a Life Care Planner.