Psychiatric and Psychological Injury Claims
Issues covered include: Bystander first responder PTSD claims, impairment assessment, work cover, workers compensation, WIRO.
Description
Keep yourself updated on the medicine, the psychology and the legal trends in psychological and psychiatric injury claims. With claims on the rise, understanding both the medicine and the law is essential for all practitioners working in this area. Straddling the medical and legal worlds, this seminar offers you a better understanding of how medical professionals form their assessments and evaluate claims. Plus gain an essential update on the common law and workers compensation claims.
Attend and earn 3 CPD units including:
2.5 units in Substantive Law
0.5 unit in Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in NSW on 20 June 2019
Chair: Hanaan Indari, Deputy Managing Partner, Carroll & O’Dea
2.00pm to 2.50pm: Bystander/First Responder PTSD Claims: Help is on its way for Injured First Responders
- Limits on potential claims for damages for psychiatric injury suffered by bystanders to an accident
- Are first responders such as police, fire service officers and paramedics ‘mere bystanders’?
- Does a tortfeasor owe a duty of care to a first responder attending the scene of an accident?
- Whether, as a matter of policy, first responders should be denied a duty of care
- Fundamental strategies for preparation and running common law trials in psychiatric cases
Presented by David Baran, Barrister, Jack Shand Chambers, Recommended Insurance Junior Counsel, Doyle’s Guide 2018
2.45pm to 4.15pm: MEDICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVES: Making the Impairment Assessments: An Assessor’s View
- Making the assessment: methodology for discerning between the work-related cause or causes of a psychiatric condition
- Evidence that is used by the expert: tips to improving the briefs
- How the rating scale works in practice? Hypotheticals examined
Presented by Dr Sharon Reutens, Psychiatrist, Medical Assessor and Review Panel Assessor
Commentary: Exceeding the Threshold and What it Will Take
This session will examine and discuss such questions as;
- What things will sway the assessor?
- How each of the categories operate with respect to the score in that category?
- How might an assessor reconcile the differences between each side’s medico legal reports?
Presented by Eraine Grotte, Barrister, Jack Shand Chambers and Louise Mathias, Barrister, Elizabeth Street Chambers
4.15pm to 4.30pm Afternoon Tea
4.30pm to 5.15pm: WorkCover and Psychiatric Injuries: Insights and Lessons from WIRO
- The latest trends and cases involving psychiatric injury matters before WorkCover
- Different approaches and outcomes for psychiatric injury cases compared to physical injury claims
- The types of psychiatric injury matters commonly before WorkCover, the evidence and factual disputes at issues, and how the matters commonly resolve
- Hot topics and what’s on the horizon in psychiatric injury claims
Presented by Kim Garling, Workers Compensation Independent Review Officer, Workers Compensation Independent Review Office
Venue
Cliftons Sydney
Level 3, 10 Spring Street
Sydney 2000
NSW
Australia