- FEATURED COURSES
- Hawaii Seminar
- Bodam & Beyond
- Winter Convention 2015
- Annual Rating 2014
- The Domino Effect
- Summer 2014 Convention
- Navigating the Maze of WC
- Back to Basics
Hawaii Seminar - April 2015
9.0 MCLE
9.0 Legal Specialization
6.0 DWC
- How do you establish "thresholds" for SIF?
- How do you spot and recognize a SIF case?
- How do you file a SIF case?
- How do you collect the medical evidence necessary to prove up an SIF case?
- How do you try your SIF case?
- When do you try your SIF case?
- Do you try your SIF case with the basic case, the industrial case or afterwards?
Bodam & Beyond - March 2015
4.0 MCLE
4.0 Legal Specialization
4.0 DWC
- Using evidence based medicine to support your client’s RFA and prove your case at EXPEDITED HEARING
- Securing home health care
- Labor Code §4600 requests not subject to UR/IMR
- Case Law Update (Bodam, Shanley, etc)
- Consequences of forced detox
- Defense considerations
Winter Convention - January 2015
16.0 MCLE (1.25 Ethics)
16.0 Legal Specialization
5.75 DWC
- How to Ensure that the Extent of Actual Impairment (and Disability) is Documented
- What Now? UR Appeals, IMR Appeals and the Dubon Case
- MPN Update: What ALl Lawyers and Doctors Need to Know
- Obtaining a Medical Evaluation for an Injured Worker Post SB863
- Commissioners' Panel
- Marvin Shapiro Memorial: Most Important Cases
- Ethics Redux
- The Great Debate
- Back to Basics: The Masters Share Their Secrets
- The Presiding Judges Speak Out
- What Are COnsidered Treatment Requests Under Code §4610
- Is There Really Such Thing as an Expedited Hearing?
Annual Rating Seminar - December 2014
6.0 MCLE
6.0 Legal Specialization
6.0 DWC
North:
- Obtaining Medical-Legal Reports, Accurate ADL Impacts and Ratings
- Assuring Comprehensive Exams are Conducted
- How Counsel Assure Physicians Have the Information they need
- What Makes a Good A/G Analysis
- Getting the Doctor to Address Work Limitations, ADL Loss and Effects of Pain on Functionality
- How and when to get an FCE
- The Role of the Vocational Evaluator
South:
- What Constitutes an Accurate Medical Examination?
- What to Look for in a Medical Report
- Substantial Medial Evidence
- New Approaches to Psychological Injuries
- Mock QME Cross-Examination by Experts
- Upper and Lower Extremities, Neck and Back Evaluation, Chronic Pain and Traumatic Brain Injuries
- AMA Compliance
- Work Capacity and Work Restrictions
The Domino Effect - September 2014
4.0 MCLE
4.0 Legal Specialization
3.0 DWC
- Can a worker be MMI if needed treatment is denied?
- Does a Refusal to Authorize Treatment increase Permanent Disability?
- Tolling the 104 TTD Cap during illegal treatment delay?
- Return to work issues raised by Denial of Treatment
- Obtaining an Accurate MSA in the face of Treatment Denials
- Quality of Evidence Supporting Treatment Requests
- Invalid UR and Insurance Bad Faith
- Medical Board Jurisdiction over UR Reviewers
- Invalid UR and Loss of Medical Control
Summer Convention - June 2014
16.5 MCLE
1.25 Ethics
1.25 Bias
15.25 Legal Specialization
6.0 DWC
- Is the California Workers’ Compensation System Losing its Mind?
- Trends in Apportionment
- Accurate Permanent Disability Ratings
- The Galaxy of Technology: May the Force Be With You Advocating for Your Clients
- The Commissioners & Friends Discuss the Hot Issues of the Day
- Marvin Shapiro Memorial Most Important Cases
- Gender Equity in Workers' Compensation Law
- Current Ethical Issues in CA and Around the Nation
- Regulations Update
- UR/IMR Update
- Medicare Set Asides
- A View from the Other Side
Navigating the Maze of WC - May 2014
4.0 MCLE
4.0 Legal Specialization
4.0 DWC
- Dubon case / UR
- Getting medical care for our clients
- The QME quagmire - how to keep your case moving
- The L.C. Section 139.48 Return to Work Fund
- The Cannon Case - Guzman update
- The new SJDV regulations - What you need to know so that you can advise your clients
- Permanent Disability Advance Requirement the rules have changed
- LeBouef Lives - discussion of recent cases
Back to Basics - March 2014
4.0 MCLE
4.0 Legal Specialization
- The Benefits, AOE/COE, TD, Earnings, Wage Loss
- Medical Basics (The spine, Knees and how to get a decent rating, Upper extremities)
- New Technologies (Using computers and iPads at the WCAB, EAMS, Paperless Offices, Client privacy)
- Preparing for Trial
- Where to sit, what to say; etiquette at the WCAB
- Preparing witnesses
- Preparing trial documents
- Direct vs. cross examination
- Offers of proof
