Managing Your Case: Maximizing Recovery; Mitigating Damages Out of Stock

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THIS ONDEMAND PROGRAM IS NOT ELIGIBLE FOR ACCREDITATION OUTSIDE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

About the Seminar
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. 

Welcome and Opening Remarks
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)

Average Weekly Wage and Comp

•  Concurrent Employment

•  "Extraordinary Circumstances" to deviate

•  Stacking Wages and Classes of Prescribed AWW/CR's

•  Other classes of employees

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

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

Adjourn 

Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 2.88 MCLE credit hours. 

This seminar is an Intermediate level program. 

Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in
2025, please use this course code: 251002ADO.

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The South Carolina Bar is an accredited CLE provider in South Carolina only. Attorneys are responsible for seeking their own credit in other jurisdictions.

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