Walk into mediation knowing the future care number behind your case is airtight.

Integrity Life Care Planning produces certified, evidence-based life care plans for catastrophic injury cases nationwide — built by a dual-certified nurse life care planner with 30 years of clinical experience.

The wrong life care planner can cost your client more than you realize.

You are heading into mediation or trial with a catastrophic injury case, and future medical costs are the number that will make or break the settlement.
You have worked with planners before who delivered a plan that looked thorough on paper — then fell apart the moment opposing counsel pushed on the methodology.
You know that in Montana, where noneconomic damages are capped, your client's entire financial future depends on how well their economic damages are documented.
You need an expert who can not only build a defensible plan, but explain it clearly to a judge, a jury, or an insurer at the negotiating table.
Finding someone local who understands Montana's rural healthcare landscape — what care actually costs here, what is actually accessible here — is harder than it should be.

We know what it feels like to be on the wrong side of a low-ball future care projection.

Insurers routinely challenge life care plans — disputing methodology, questioning costs, and pressuring attorneys toward settlements that do not come close to covering what the client will actually need. You should not have to worry about whether the plan backing your case will hold.

Rae-Lynn Christians, RN, CLCP, CNLCP, CMC

Rae-Lynn has spent over 30 years in clinical nursing — in acute care, the emergency room, and interventional radiology. She founded Integrity Life Care Planning 18 years ago specifically to give plaintiff attorneys a certified, battle-tested expert who can document future care needs with the depth and precision courts require.

She holds dual life care planning certifications — both the CLCP (Certified Life Care Planner) and the CNLCP (Certified Nurse Life Care Planner) — a distinction held by few practitioners in Montana. She works with both plaintiff and defense attorneys, which means her methodology is built for scrutiny from both sides of the table.

Imagine walking into mediation with a life care plan that the other side already knows they cannot tear apart.

A plan built to survive cross-examination

Every recommendation in an Integrity Life Care Plan is grounded in medical literature, supported by clinical records, and tied to verifiable cost data for the market. When opposing counsel pushes on the methodology at deposition, there is an answer for every line.

Montana-specific costs your opposing counsel cannot credibly dispute

Life care plans fail when they use national cost averages (sometimes we have to use these) that do not reflect what care actually costs — or what is actually available — in rural Montana. We research local providers, realistic travel and transport costs, and care gaps that families in this state actually face. The result is a plan a jury can believe.

An expert who can explain the plan in plain English — to anyone

A life care plan is only as valuable as the person defending it. Rae-Lynn has testified in depositions and at trial. She communicates complex medical and cost projections in language that resonates with juries and mediators — without losing the clinical credibility that makes the plan stick.

Trusted by attorneys across the nation for 18 years.

Dual-certified in life care planning — a distinction held by few practitioners in Montana.

Rae-Lynn holds both the CLCP (Certified Life Care Planner, awarded by the International Commission on Health Care Certification) and the CNLCP (Certified Nurse Life Care Planner, awarded by the American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners). Most planners hold one. She holds both.

30 years of clinical nursing — including acute care, emergency, and interventional radiology.

Her clinical background means she reads medical records the way treating physicians do — not the way a generalist consultant does. That depth shows in the plan, and it shows on the stand.

Guest contributor, Life Care Management Institute.

Recognized by the professional community that sets the standards for life care planning practice nationwide.

Here is how a case engagement works.

Schedule a case review

Tell us about your client's injury and where you are in the case. We'll discuss whether a full life care plan or a medical cost projection fits your situation. No obligation.

We build a defensible plan

We review all medical records, research Montana-specific care costs, and build a comprehensive, evidence-based document. We walk you through every recommendation before opposing counsel sees it.

Enter mediation or trial with confidence

You will have a court-ready life care plan and a certified expert prepared to defend it — at deposition, in mediation, or at trial.

Every catastrophic injury case that goes to mediation or trial without a defensible life care plan is a case where the future care number is negotiable — and insurers know it.

In Montana, noneconomic damages are capped. Future medical costs are not. That means the life care plan is often the single most important document in determining what your client actually recovers.
Without a certified, court-tested expert behind the numbers, opposing counsel has room to challenge the methodology, dispute the costs, and reduce the projected damages. With the right plan, that room disappears.
Insurers move fast on catastrophic cases. The sooner a life care plan is in development, the more leverage an attorney has in early negotiations — and the less likely the case undervalues the client's real needs.

About Integrity Life Care Planning

Rae-Lynn Christians, RN, CLCP, CNLCP, CMC, started her career at the bedside — acute care, the emergency room, and interventional radiology. Thirty years of clinical nursing taught her how to read a medical record, understand what an injury actually costs a person over a lifetime, and communicate those findings in terms that hold up under scrutiny.

She founded Integrity Life Care Planning 18 years ago because she saw too many catastrophically injured people enter settlement without a clear, documented picture of what their future care would actually require. She has spent the years since building plans that attorneys can rely on — and that injured people can live by.

Integrity Life Care Planning is based in Helena, Montana. We work with plaintiff and defense attorneys throughout Montana and the surrounding region on catastrophic injury cases involving traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, amputation, severe burns, birth injuries, and complex multi-trauma.