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Event Information
Managing Your Case: Maximizing Recovery; Mitigating Damages
August 24, 2023
Credits
N/A
MCLE: 3.00
Pricing
Dates
Thursday, August 24, 2023Time
8:55 AM - 12:10 PMRegistration Deadline
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
This course focuses on the
fundamentals of litigating a South Carolina Workers' Compensation Claim from
intake through resolution. It is taught from both a defense perspective so as manage the case to limit exposure and damages, as well as an advocate for claimants to maximize recovery and awards in the case. While this course does cover most of the primary aspects of handling a workers' compensation in South Carolina as an attorney advocate for employers or injured workers, it will not over much related to the discovery process in litigation of a workers' compensation claim.
Click here to register for the live webinar.
This seminar is a basic to intermediate level program.
This program qualifies for 3.0
MCLE credit hours.
SC Supreme Commission on CLE
Course #: 930057
The South Carolina Bar is an accredited CLE provider in South Carolina only. Attorneys are responsible for seeking their own credit in other jurisdictions.
Disclaimer: The views expressed in CLE programs and publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the South Carolina Bar, its sections, or committees. The South Carolina Bar believes that all Bar members have the right to both meaningful learning and to the exchange of ideas in a civil environment. The Bar reserves the right to remove or exclude any person from a Bar event if that person is causing inappropriate disturbance, behaving in a manner inconsistent with accepted standards of decorum, or in any way preventing fellow Bar members from meaningful participation and learning.
Registration Fees
| Price Description | Amount |
|---|
Agenda
Speakers
| Name | Organization | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Leventis | Smith Born Leventis Taylor & Vega | - |
Policy
Need to cancel or transfer your registration? Simply notify us in writing no later than 24 hours prior to the published start time of the seminar at registrar@scbar.org. You will be eligible to receive a full refund, be transferred to the live webcast or archived on-demand version of the same seminar, if available, or to a live or archived seminar of equal or lesser value. If you need to cancel within 24 hours of the start time of a program, you are eligible to take the program in its archived, on-demand format, if available. Neither transfers to the live webcast, nor refunds will be issued for cancellations made within 24 hours of a seminar start time.
Continuing Education
Agenda
8:30 a.m.
Registration
8:55 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9 a.m.
Intake of a new file and SCWCC Standard Forms
• Intake from the Claimant's Perspective
• Intake
from the Defense Perspective
• Most
Commonly Used Forms and Pleadings (F15, F20, F21, F27, F50, F51 & F58)
9:50 a.m.
Break
10 a.m.
Average Weekly Wage and Comp
• Concurrent
Employment
• "Extraordinary
Circumstances" to deviate
• Stacking
Wages and Classes of Prescribed AWW/CR's
• Other
classes of employees
10:50 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
Body Parts and Medical Care
• Which
Body parts are alleged/directly injured Which Body Parts/Systems are Affect?
• Which
Body parts are admitted/and being provided medical care?
• Who is
paying for medical care, emergency care on date of accident or after?
• Mileages,
Prescriptions, EMS rides and other things it is better to address on the front
end of the claim.
11:50 a.m.
Mock Pre-hearing conference in front of Comm. Leventis –
Audience Participation
Questions from the audience and follow up practitioners’
points from the mock
pre-hearing conference.
12:10 p.m.
Adjourn