2011 Annual Fall Workers' Compensation Update
October 2011
2011 Annual Fall Workers' Compensation Update
Program Highlights
- What's Going on at the Division?
- New Legislation
- Changes at the OAC
- New Case Decisions from the Industrial Claim Appeals Office, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and the Colorado Supreme Court
- The Use of Spinal Cord Stimulators in Workers' Compensation Cases: When is It a Good Idea and When Isn't It? Difficulties in Getting Approval and Other Issues
- Ethics: The Basics of Advocacy Practice and Litigation Preparation-When Can You Talk with the Adjuster? Subpoenas; Interviewing Witnesses; Making Witnesses Available; Investigation and Subrogation; Third Parties
- Privilege Logs
… and more!
Program Description
This year's Planning Committee brings you a fresh program with the perfect balance of claimant and respondent perspectives on practical topics directly applicable to your practice
- Get the inside track on what's happening at the Division, and OAC, the legislature and the courts.
- Hear a nationally-known physician discuss the state-of-the-art medical issue of spinal stimulation.
- Draw the ethical line between being an advocate and being annoying
- Write a privilege log: How to Write One; Discovery Disputes; When Does Privilege Attach?
Find out why past participants describe this program as “comprehensive,” “excellent” and “very well planned and carried out!”
Agenda
8:30 - 9:00am
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10am
Welcome and Introduction
Extended by Clifford Eley, Esq., Program Moderator
9:10 - 9:40am
What's Going on at the Division?
Presented by Paul Tauriello, Director
9:40 - 10:10am
New Legislation
Claimant Perspective
Presented by Janet Frickey, Esq.
Respondent's Perspective
Presented by Douglas J. Kotarek, Esq.
10:10 - 10:20am
Networking Break
10:20 - 10:50am
Changes at the OAC
Presented by Matthew Azer, Director, Office of Administrative Courts
10:50 - 11:50am
New Case Decisions from the Industrial Claim Appeals Office, the Colorado Court of Appeals, and the Colorado Supreme Court
Claimant Perspective
Presented by Amy Brewer, Esq.
Respondent Perspective
Presented by Patricia Clisham, Esq.
11:50am - 1:00pm
Lunch - Compliments of CBA-CLE and the CBA Workers' Compensation Section
1:00 - 1:50pm
The Use of Spinal Cord Stimulators in Workers' Compensation Cases: When is It a Good Idea and When Isn't It? Difficulties in Getting Approval and Other Issues
Presented by Giancarlo Barolat, MD
1:50 - 2:40pm
Ethics
The Basics of Advocacy Practice and Litigation Preparation-When Can You Talk with the Adjuster? Subpoenas; Interviewing Witnesses; Making Witnesses Available; Investigation and Subrogation; Third Parties
Claimant Perspective
Presented by Jordan Levine, Esq.
Respondent Perspective
Presented by Katherine H. Mackey, Esq.
2:40 - 2:50pm
Networking Break
2:50 - 3:40pm
Privilege Logs
How to Write One; Discovery Disputes; When Does Privilege Attach?
Claimant Perspective
Presented by Jennifer Bisset, Esq.
Respondent Perspective
Presented by Thomas Kanan, Jr., Esq.
3:40pm
Q&A Panel
Members of the Faculty
4:00pm
Adjourn
Program Chair and Moderator
*Patricia Clisham, Esq.
Clisham, Satriana & Biscan, LLC
Denver, CO
Robert Erickson, Esq.
Pinnacol Assurance
Denver, CO
*Janet L. Frickey, Esq.
The Frickey Law Firm
Lakewood, CO 80214
Lakewood, CO 80214
Tama Levine, Esq.
Blackman & Levine, LLC
Denver, CO
Peter H. McGuire, Esq.
Sullivan, Sullivan and McGuire
Denver, CO
Moderator
Clifford Eley, Esq.
Eley Law Firm
Denver, CO
Faculty
Matthew Azer, Director
Office of Administrative Courts
Denver, CO
Giancarlo Barolat, MD
Barolat Neuroscience
Denver, CO
Jennifer Bisset, Esq.
Law Firm of Jennifer E. Bisset
Denver, CO
Amy Brewer, Esq.
Brewer Law Offices, PC
Breckenridge, CO
Thomas Kanan, Jr., Esq.
Denver, CO
Denver, CO
Douglas J. Kotarek, Esq.
Hall & Evans, LLC
Denver, CO
Jordan Levine, Esq.
Anderson Hemmat & Levine, LLC
Denver, CO
Katherine H. Mackey, Esq.
Ruegsegger Simons Smith & Stern, LLC
Denver, CO
Denver, CO
Paul Tauriello, Director
Colorado Division of Workers Compensation
Denver, CO
*Also on faculty
Video Replays: November 9, 2011
Denver: CLE Classroom, 1900 Grand Street, Suite 300
Grand Junction: 1250 East Sherwood Drive
Colorado Springs: 421 South Tejon Street, Suite 100
Registration Fees
| Non Member | $339.00 |
| CBA | $289.00 |
| WORKER | $269.00 |
| New Lawyer | $249.00 |
| CBA | $249.00 |
- General Credits: 6.00
- Ethics Credits: 1.00
- EDI Credits:
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