Workers' Compensation Basics: Learn How the System Works
June 2015
Workers' Compensation Basics: Learn How the System Works
Co-sponsored by the CBA Workers' Compensation Section
Program Highlights:
- Medical Benefits, Including The "Designated Provider List (DPL)," How to Request a Change of Physician, and Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI)
- Indemnity Overview, Including Temporary Total Disability (TTD), Average Weekly Wage (AWW) and Permanent Total Disability (PTD)
- Compensability of an Injury Under the Colorado Workers' Compensation Act, Including Course and Scope of Employment, Special Circumstances and Defenses to Compensability
- Ethics Ripley's Believe It or Not, Including Copying Depositions, Contacting the Adjuster and Altering Medical Records
- Office of Administrative Courts Hearings, Including Courtroom Etiquette, Post-hearing Submissions and Surveillance
- The Prehearing and Settlement Conference Process, Including Prehearing Conference Procedures, Rulings on Written Motions and Practice Tips
- Featuring FOUR Judges from the Division of Workers' Compensation and the Office of Administrative Courts!
Program Description:
Workers' compensation is a highly specialized area of the law. It is full of detail and nuance that you have to be aware of if you want to be successful. If you would like to add this area to your practice, register for this program today, so you can lay the groundwork on foundational concepts like medical benefits, indemnity and compensability. Then sit in on TWO judges' panels and learn some essential ethics rules in workers' compensation arena.
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Agenda:
8:30am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am
Welcome and Introduction
Extended by Michael Kaplan, Esq., Moderator
9:10 – 10:00am
Medical Benefits
- Injured Worker's Statutory Right to Receive Medical Treatment
- Employer Designation of the Authorized Treating Physician (ATP)
- The "Designated Provider List" (DPL)
- How the Division's Rule 8 Works
- How to Request a Change of Physician
- Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI)
- When Medical Treatment Benefits Can Continue After MMI Has Been Reached and a Final Award Has Been Made
Presented by Elsa Martinez Tenreiro, Esq.
10:00am
Networking Break
10:10am
Indemnity Overview
- Temporary Total Disability (TTD)
- Average Weekly Wage (AWW)
- Permanent Partial Disability (PPD)
- Permanent Total Disability (PTD)
- Apportionment
Presented by Nick Fogel, Esq.
11:00am
Compensability of an Injury Under the Colorado Workers' Compensation Act
- Employer/Employee Relationship
- Course and Scope of Employment
- Arising out of Employment
- What is a Compensable Injury?
- Special Circumstances
- Defenses to Compensability
Presented by Brett Busch, Esq.
12:00pm
Lunch on Your Own
1:10pm
Ethics: Ripley's Believe It or Not
Copying Depositions/Transcripts; Contacting the Adjuster and Claimant if Represented; Altering Releases and Medical Records; COLTAF Accounts
Presented by Paul Krueger, Esq.
2:10pm
Networking Break
2:20pm
Office of Administrative Courts Hearings
- Courtroom Etiquette
- Hearing Submission Organization
- Citations
- Post-hearing Submissions
- Submission of Depositions
- Surveillance
Presented by the Honorable Laura Broniak and the Honorable Keith Mottram
3:10pm
The Prehearing and Settlement Conference Process
- Jurisdiction and Authority of Prehearing ALJs
- Prehearing Conference Procedures
- Rulings on Written Motions
- Handling Discovery, Essential Information and Claim File Request Disputes
- Settlement Conference Procedures
- Arbitration
- Practice Tips
Presented by the Honorable Patricia Clisham and the Honorable Jeffrey Goldstein
4:00pm
Adjourn
Location Information
CBA-CLE Large Classroom
1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
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1900 Grant Street, Suite 300
Denver, CO 80203
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $309.00 |
| CBA Member | $269.00 |
| CBA Workers' Compensation Law Section Member | $249.00 |
| Paralegal/Legal Support Staff | $209.00 |
| New Lawyer - (in practice 5 years or less) | $209.00 |
| CLEACCESSPASS - ELITE Pass Holder | $0.00 |
- General Credits: 6.00
- Ethics Credits: 1.00
- EDI Credits:
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Sponsor Information
- Medical Benefits, Indemnity and Compensability
- Learn the Processes in Both the Office of Administrative Courts and in the Division of Workers' Compensation
- Featuring FIVE Judges from the Division of Workers' Compensation and the Office of Administrative Courts