CLE - 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

Hosted by the Workers' Compensation Section

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:

12:30 – 1:30 p.m. – “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

1:30 – 2:30 p.m. - 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

2:30 – 2:45 p.m. – (BREAK) 
 

2:45 – 3:45 p.m. - 2022 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

3:45 – 4:45 p.m. - 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

Join us for a 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!

Login link and materials link will be provided via email late the morning of the program.

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Cancellations and requests for refund will be honored on the following basis:

Cancellation policy for live, video, webinar, podcast, and telephone registrants 
If cancelling your registration, you must notify the Philadelphia Bar Association by email CLEcancel@philabar.org or FAX 215-238-6349 no later than 2 business days prior to the course presentation date for the appropriate site, in order to receive a 100% refund; 1 business day or less, you will receive a full tuition refund minus a $25 administrative fee. Transferring a registration to a substitute course date and time are welcomed. If you do not attend the course and did not notify Philadelphia Bar Association in the appropriate advanced notice, you will receive the course materials in full consideration of tuition paid.