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March 2010
2010 Annual Spring Workers' Compensaton Update
Program Highlights
- Case Law Update (Colorado Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and ICAP)
- Evidence-based Medicine and the Role of the Medical Treatment Guidelines in Colorado's Workers' Compensation System
- The Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) Diagnostic Criteria
- Issue and Claim Preclusion in Workers' Compensation Appeals
- Legal Ethics: The Musical
- Practice Issues Revisited: How Three Recent Changes in Workers Compensation Law Are Playing Out in the Real World
Program Description
Workers' compensation attorneys are in for a treat! The CBA Workers' Compensation Section is hosting its annual Spring Workers' Compensation Update on this date and the speakers and topics, as always, are relevant, timely, and practical!
The day begins with the always helpful review of the most important case law decisions over the past year, including Colorado Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and ICAP decisions. The day continues with a primer on evidence-based medicine and how that concept is implemented in the Division's Medical Treatment Guidelines. The morning concludes with a presentation by ICAP Administrative Law Judge Curt Kriksciun on issue and claim preclusion matters that often trip up workers' compensation attorneys filing appeals.
After lunch you will be treated to the most fun you can have while earning CLE: Legal ethics taught through the medium of humorous skits and songs! The next session of the program includes three presentations on how two recent Division rule changes, as well as a recent Colorado Supreme Court decision, are affecting Workers' Compensation cases in the real world. The final topic of the day is a review of the complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) diagnostic criteria, including the tests themselves and new treatments available.
The faculty includes distinguished workers' compensation law judges, medical doctors, as well as experienced practitioners from both the claimant and respondent's bars, ensuring that you receive a high quality CLE experience!
Topics
Welcome and Introduction
Extended by Patricia Jean Clisham, Esq.
Case Law Update (Colorado Supreme Court, Court of Appeals and ICAP)
Presented by T. Paul Krueger, Esq.
Evidence-based Medicine and the Role of the Medical Treatment Guidelines in Colorado's Workers' Compensation System
Presented by Daniel Sung, Esq.
Issue and Claim Preclusion in Workers' Compensation Appeals
Presented by the Honorable Curt P. Kriksciun, ICAP Administrative Law Judge, State of Colorado
Legal Ethics: Advertising, Solicitation, Changing Jobs and Competing for a Potential Client's Business
Learn about the legal ethics issues that can arise when a workers' compensation attorney
- Advertises for clients or solicits a potential client for his/her business
- Departs a law firm for solo practice, to join another firm or organization, or to work for a government agency
- Arrives at a new law firm after leaving a competing law firm
- Begins representing claimants after representing respondents (or vice versa)
- Departs a firm and brings active cases with him/her to his/her new firm
- Is approached by a competing firm with an offer of employment and the competing firm's lawyers are opposing counsel on one or more of the attorney's active cases
- Competes with other attorneys and firms for the business of the same potential client
Presented by Clifford E. Eley, Esq., Janet L. Frickey, Esq. and Thomas L. Kanan, Esq.
Practice Issues Revisited (Three 20-minute Presentations)
Learn how two recent rule changes and a recent supreme court decision that affect workers' compensation law are playing out in the real world!
- Audio Recordings Under Rule 8 - How Have They Affected Workers' Compensation Claims So Far?
Presented by Margaret D. Keck, Esq.
- Designated Provider Issues in Rule 8
Presented by Suzanne M. Gall, Esq.
- The Avalanche Industries Decision - The Real World Impact as of March 2010
Presented by Kristin A. Caruso, Esq.
The Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) Diagnostic Criteria
Learn about:
- The four diagnostic tests
- New treatments available, including Ketamine and spinal cord stimulators
- Thermagrams
- And more!
Presented by George V. Schakaraschwili, MD
Planning Committee
Patricia Jean Clisham, Esq.
Clisham, Satriana & Biscan, LLC
Denver, CO
Robert Erickson, Esq.
Pinnacol Assurance
Denver, CO
Tama L. Levine, Esq.
Blackman & Levine, LLC
Denver, CO
Lynn P. Lyon, Esq.
Ritsema & Lyon, PC
Denver, CO
Faculty
Kristin A. Caruso, Esq.
McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP
Greenwood Village, CO
Patricia Jean Clisham, Esq.
Clisham, Satriana & Biscan, LLC
Denver, CO
Suzanne M. Gall, Esq.
Suzanne M. Gall, LLC
Fort Collins, CO
Margaret D. Keck, Esq.
Thomas Pollart & Miller, LLC
Greenwood Village, CO
Hon. Curt P. Kriksciun, Administrative Law Judge
Industrial Claim Appeals Office
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment
Denver, CO
T. Paul Krueger, Esq.
Ritsema & Lyon, PC
Denver, CO
George V. Schakaraschwili, MD
Colorado Rehabilitation & Occupational Medicine, PLLC
Aurora, CO
Daniel Sung, Esq.
Division of Workers' Compensation
Colorado Department of Labor and Employment
Denver, CO
- CLE Pass Price *FREE! - exclusions may apply
- Standard Price $329.00 USD
- Member Price $269.00 USD
- General Credits 7.00
- Ethics Credits 1.00
- EDI Credits