Choose a date below to see the panels offered.
Continuing Education Credits awarded when attending the entire convention:
Minimum Continuing Legal Education: 16.00 MCLE (including 1.00 Ethics)
Legal Specialization in Workers’ Compensation: 16.00 MCLE
Division of Workers’ Compensation: 4.5 QME
Click on the links below to see an extended description, panelists and continuing education credits for each session.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
- Meetings: The Central Coast chapter meetings vary.
- Location: Varies
- Attendance fee: $45.00 CAAA Members $55.00 Non-Members
- WCABS: Oxnard 1901 N. Rice Ave, Suite 200 Oxnard, CA 9303 (805) 485-2533
Santa Barbara 411 E. Canon Perdido, #2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 968-0258
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
- Can MSAs be rigged?
- What should we be looking for in the MSA?
- Does an MSA help or hinder settlement?
- How do we challenge an MSA?
- Does an MSA need to be sent to CMS for approval?
- Structuring MSAs
Credit: 1.5 MCLE, 1.5 Legal Specialization
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
- Social Security offsets; "Hartman" formula
- State Disability
- Pensions, Long Term DIsability, PERS, and STRS
- Medicare and MediCal
- Affordable Care Act
- Special Needs Trust
Credit: 1.0 MCLE, 1.0 Legal Specialization
6:15 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2017
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
- Professional referrals; the do’s and don’ts for lawyers and doctors
- Attorney/client relationships
- Facebook and other social media
- Advertising on the internet
- Website content
- Blogging
Credit: 1.0 MCLE (Ethics)
- Preparing for the deposition
- Communicating with the doctor
- Knowing the medicine
- Objectives and strategies
- Evidence, objections and demeanor
Credit: 1.25 MCLE, 1.25 Legal Specialization
- The panel will discuss the important issues in workers’ compensation today, including implementation issues and regulations
Credit: 1.25 MCLE, 1.25 Legal Specialization
- The panel discusses the most important cases that have recently come down from the WCAB and appellate courts in California
Credit: 2.0 MCLE, 2.0 Legal Specialization
- Update on MTUS and opioids; what it means to injured workers
- The implications of new legislation
- SB 1160 strategies
- How can injured workers obtain treatment when the defendant denies a claim, or does not authorize treatment with an MPN physician?
Credit: 1.25 MCLE, 1.25 Legal Specialization, 1.0 QME
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2017
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
- Abuse of discovery
- Objections to sub rosa video
- How to deal with untimely service of video
- Subpoenas Duces Tecums
- Advocacy letters
- Bank records
- Witness statements
- Facebook and other social media
Credit: 1.25 MCLE, 1.25 Legal Specialization
- Percentage of doctors listed on an MPN who initially agree to see a patient based on the applicant attorney's request?
- Percentage of doctors listed on an MPN who refuse to see injured workers
- Excuses MPN doctors use to refuse to treat injured workers
- Steps to take to obtain authorization for treatment within MPN
- What constitutes denial of care?
- Treating outside the MPN
Credit: 1.25 MCLE, 1.25 Legal Specialization
SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2017
9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
- Does the “psyche standard” apply to physical injuries? (The McCoy and Wang cases)
- Does the Larsen case shed light on what constitutes a “violent” act? Can we extrapolate this definition to a “catastrophic injury?”
- What are the arguments for a “secondary” psychological condition actually being a primary “physical” injury?
- Labor Code §4662 total disability exception to the “psyche repealer”
- Good faith personnel action; Rolda revisited
Rasmusson; Gabor Vari, M.D.
Credit: 1.25 MCLE, 1.25 Legal Specialization, 1.25 QME
- What is a MTBI?
- When is a stroke industrial?
- Specialists used for treatment and evaluations in catastrophic cases
- How do you assess the value of a catastrophic case?
- Settlements; structure alternatives
- Vocational analysis
Credit: 1.25 MCLE, 1.25 Legal Specialization, 1.25 QME