The North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) has approved the recommended 2027 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP) Need Determinations. This blog post summarizes the need determinations and explains the remaining steps in the SMFP process
While plaintiff and defense life care plans follow the same professional standards, the process behind them differs in important ways. This blog breaks down how plaintiff life care planners build their opinions; through client and family interviews, home visits, physical and cognitive testing, and direct conversations with treating physicians. It also explains when additional evaluations (vocational, neuropsychological, driving, home modification, and more) are needed and how skipping these evaluations can leave a plaintiff's recommendations vulnerable to challenge from the defense.
Legislators in several states with Certificate of Need (CON) laws have introduced legislation to revise which services are subject to CON review. Recent legislative activity in Kentucky, Mississippi, and Connecticut would change existing requirements for facility expansion, equipment acquisition, and service initiation. These changes may shift the way healthcare facilities, practitioners, and other investors make healthcare investments in these states.
Loss of earning capacity is often a major element of economic damages. In personal cases when the plaintiff alleges a significant loss of earning capacity due to physical or cognitive impairments from an injury, a vocational expert can reliably determine what, if any, post-injury jobs the plaintiff can perform and the earnings from those jobs.
The North Carolina State Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) has published the draft of the 2027 State Medical Facilities Plan (SMFP). This blog post summarizes the need determinations and explains the remaining steps in the SMFP process
On January 16, 2026, State Office of Administrative Hearings (SOAH) administrative law judges issued decisions in favor of Texas Mutual Insurance Company (TMIC) and other carriers, upholding RPC’s fair and reasonable payment methodology for rotary-wing air ambulance services as consistent with Texas Department of Insurance rules. Beginning in 2014, RPC developed and defended a data driven methodology for rotary-wing air ambulance services adjusting Medicare rates for operating cost inflation. In the most recent SOAH hearings, Ron Luke, JD, PhD and Brian Piper, PhD, testified. RPC has since been retained to develop a comparable methodology for fixed-wing air ambulance services and expects to continue supporting TMIC and other Texas workers’ compensation carriers in future medical fee disputes. Read our latest blog post for the full history of the case, RPC’s methodology, and what these rulings may mean for future air ambulance billing disputes.
RPC's economic and forensic accounting experts played a key role in one of the first cases tried to verdict in the Texas Business Court. Through detailed financial analysis, damages modeling, forensic accounting, and expert testimony, RPC helped ES3 Minerals LLC successfully pursue claims involving intellectual property theft, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of employment contracts, resulting in a judgment exceeding $60 million.
At RPC, provide Tennessee attorneys with defensible, well-supported expert analyses for all components of economic damages. Our multidisciplinary team provides analysis and testimony in personal injury litigation arising from motor vehicle accidents, workplace injuries, wrongful death, and medical malpractice. Rather than coordinating multiple independent experts, RPC offers a cohesive team approach, offering you a single source.
Medical cost estimates (MCEs), surgical cost estimates (SCEs), and life care plans (LCPs) are reports prepared for a plaintiff or defendant in a personal injury case to estimate reasonable costs of future medical care. Difference in the cost of the reports, justifies adjusters and attorneys carefully consider whether a full LCP is needed or an MCE or SCE will suffice. In this blog, we discuss what an MCE, or SCE, is and whether it is best to prepare an MCE or SCE or an LCP, depending on the facts of the case.
Railroad workers operate under a unique framework of federal laws and benefit systems that significantly impact the evaluation of economic damages in personal injury cases. Unlike standard workers’ compensation claims, railroad injury cases often involve the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA), along with specialized programs like the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (RUIA) and Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) benefits. Understanding these distinctions is essential for attorneys and experts seeking to properly assess damages and ensure fair compensation.