Work Comp Compliance Crusher: 2023 Update on Important Issues in Workers' Compensation Practice

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WORK COMP COMPLIANCE CRUSHER: 
2023 Update on Important Issues in Workers' Compensation Practice

Program originally presented Friday, August 18, 2023

This comprehensive Workers’ Compensation Update will focus on relevant issues, recent developments and case law affecting work-place injuries and workers’ compensation claims.

Program Agenda:

“Implicit Bias and Micro-Aggressions in the Workplace and Law”
Despite progress, bias continues to impact people in all areas of life, including the legal profession. In this CLE hour, our featured speaker will discuss implicit bias and how it can impact everything from our daily lives to daily practice of law. These biases, which can include both positive and negative stereotypes, are often activated involuntarily. Our everyday decision-making is unavoidably affected by implicit biases, stereotypes, and other types of cognitive biases. As attorneys, it is important that we understand these biases and recognize the steps we can take to ensure that they do not lead to negative consequences.

Featured Speaker:
Desireé Chang, M.S., Director of Education, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission 

Figuring Out Disfigurement and Specific Loss
This CLE session, panelists discuss the elements of a disfigurement claim and offer practice tips on how to handle those claims from both Claimant and Employer’s perspectives. They also offer insight from both counsel and the Workers' Compensation judiciary, concerning mediation of disfigurement claims, particularly in the post-pandemic world.

Panelists:
Hon. Holly San Angelo, Judge, Workers' Compensation Office of Adjudication, PA Department of Labor & Industry
Bethann R. Naples, Esquire, Naples Law, LLP, Philadelphia
Maria Terpolilli,  Esquire, Terpolilli Sawyer PC, Philadelphia

2023 Workers' Compensation Pennsylvania Case Law Update
Post-COVID we have new realities and different questions that affect workers’ compensation practice and procedure. In this informative CLE session, speakers highlight the most recent updates on legislative activities affecting workers’ compensation matters, along with a summary of significant case law.

Panelists:
Mitchell I. Golding, Esq., Dengler and Lipski, Philadelphia
Levi Wolf, Esquire, Wolf, Baldwin & Associates, P.C., Philadelphia

Navigating the Medicare Maze in Workers’ Compensation
This CLE session will highlight everything you need to know about Medicare, including who exactly is a Medicare Beneficiary and the reasonable expectation of Medicare enrollment. Knowing the Medicare laws, the intricacies of Medicare Set-aside allocations, the effect of conditional payments, and the impact Medicare can have on settlement is imperative in the representation of clients.    

Panelists:
Andrea Rock, Esquire, Marshall Dennehey, Philadelphia 
Joseph Conlan, Esquire, Martin Law, Philadelphia
 

Attend this face-paced, in-depth afternoon on the hottest workers’ compensation issues and gain the strategies, background and confidence you need to successfully handle cases in your practice!

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