Colorado Workers' Compensation Law Basics: Build Your Practice Out of Stock
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February 2012
Colorado Workers' Compensation Law Basics: Build Your Practice
Program Highlights:
Understand How the System Works:
- Compensability
- Medical Benefits
- Temporary Total Disability (TTD) and Average Weekly Wage (AWW)
- Permanent Partial Disability (PPD) and Apportionment
- Ethics
- The Pre-hearing Process and Office of Administrative Courts (OAC) Hearings
Program Description:
Have you recently graduated from law school and don't know the first thing about workers' compensation law, but would like to start taking cases? Or have you been practicing workers' compensation law for a while and would like a refresher course on the basics? Either way, this program is for you! Build your practice by learning the fundamentals of this often complex area of the law: No question is too basic. Network with more experienced practitioners.
Topics:
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 Frank Cavanaugh, Esq.
Medical Benefits
- Injured worker's statutory right to receive medical treatment
- Employer selection of the Authorized Treating Physician (ATP)
- The “Designated Provider List” (DPL)
- How the Division's Rule 8 works
- How to request a change in 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 Kristin Caruso, Esq.
Temporary Total Disability (TTD) and Average Weekly Wage (AWW)
- When is the worker's disability “temporary” as opposed to “permanent”?
- When is the worker's disability “total?” “Partial?”
- Average weekly wage defined
- Why the concept of AWW is important
- Hourly, daily, and salaried workers
- Health insurance costs
- Issues with the self-employed
Presented by Barrie Sullivan, II, Esq.
Permanent Partial Disability (PPD) and Apportionment
- Permanent Partial Disability defined
- Requirements
- Scheduled impairment benefits
- “Whole person” impairment benefits
- Vocational rehabilitation
- Calculating the amount of benefits
- Apportionment basics
Presented by Elsa Martinez Tenreiro, Esq.
Ethics
- Who “Owns” Witnesses?
- Communicating with Employees of Represented Parties
- Direct Contact of Client with Represented Parties
Presented by Honorable Thomas J. DeMarino Administrative Law Judge
The Prehearing Process and Office of Administrative Courts (OAC) Hearings
- Prehearing administrative law judge (PALJ)
- Meetings and conferences
- Discovery process and common discovery issues
- Settlement discussions
- Forms
- Preparing for an evidentiary hearing before an OAC ALJ
- The ALJ's decision and order
- Appeals
Presented by Paul Krueger, Esq., Michael H. Kaplan, Esq., Honorable Kim Allegretti, Honorable Jeffrey A. Goldstein, and Honorable Ted Krumreich
Planning Committee
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
Tama Levine, Esq.
Blackman & Levine, LLC
Denver, CO
Peter H. McGuire, Esq.
Sullivan, Sullivan and McGuire
Denver, CO
Moderator
Greg Cairns, Esq.
Cairns & Associates, PC
Denver, CO
Faculty
Honorable Kim Allegretti
Administrative Law Judge
Office of Administrative Courts
Denver, cO
Kristin Caruso, Esq.
McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP
Greenwood Village, CO
Honorable Thomas J. DeMarino
Administrative Law Judge
Colorado Division of Workers' Compensation
Denver, CO
Honorable Jeffrey A. Goldstein
Administrative Law Judge
Colorado Division of Workers' Compensation
Denver, CO
Michael H. Kaplan, Esq.
Kaplan Morrell, LLC
Denver, CO
Honorable Ted Krumreich
Administrative Law Judge
Office of Administrative Courts
Denver, CO
Paul Krueger, Esq.
Ritsema & Lyon, PC
Denver, CO
Barrie Sullivan, II, Esq.
Sullivan Sullivan and McGuire, PC
Denver CO
Elsa Martinez Tenreiro, Esq.
Alvarado Laforett & Martinez Tenreiro, LLC
Denver CO
- CLE Pass Price *FREE! - exclusions may apply
- Standard Price $339.00 USD
- Member Price $289.00 USD
- General Credits 7.00
- Ethics Credits 1.00
- EDI Credits