Managing a Compensation Claim During COVID-19
This unique medico-legal session explores what to expect when starting and managing a compensation claim during these turbulent times. Work step by step through key legal issues impacted by COVID-19, including causation, treatment, examinations, assessments, settlement, mental health, file management and more. Then pivot to the medical perspective as you learn what to expect behaviourally from your clients and how psychiatric assessments will run and what they mean in terms of capacity and instruction.
Description
Attend and Earn 1 CPD unit in Substantive Law
This program is applicable to practitioners from all States & Territories
Starting a Claim for Compensation During COVID-19
- Will the client have issues regarding causation?
- Will they be able to access necessary treatment to manage condition and support the claim?
Managing Existing Claims During COVID-19
- Access to treatment and the impact on ‘stability’ questions
- Access to medico-legals during this time (Will video examinations have the same weight in court?)
- Providing advice regarding difficult topics
- Engaging in settlement discussions
- Having discussions with clients about further delays to claims and potential impact that can have on mental health
- Participating in the Court process electronically
Presented by Genna Angelowitsch, Special Counsel, Adviceline Injury Lawyers
Emotional Responses to Pandemics and the Impact on the Litigant
- How do humans respond to a crisis?
- Common behaviours and emotional responses to pandemics
- Emotional responses to injury as seen in litigants
- How a litigant may react to a pandemic
- How the litigant’s response to the pandemic may affect your file management
- Capacity to instruct/ manage funds and outcomes of psychiatric assessments
Presented by Dr Patricia Jungfer, Psychiatrist