Psychological and Psychiatric Injury Claims
Issues covered include: Case review, current trends, reasonable management action, bullying/harassment, impairment assessments, pain disorders, first responder PTSD claims
Description
Keep yourself updated on the psychology and legal trends in psychological and psychiatric injury claims, including somatoform pain disorders and bystander PTSD 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 a better understanding of how medical professions form their assessments and evaluate claims, plus gain an update on the common law and workers comp claims.
Attend and earn 4 CPD units including:
2.5 units in Legal Knowledge
1.5 units in Professional Skills
This seminar was recorded in QLD on 13 June 2019
9.00am to 9.05am: Opening Comments by the Chair
Chair: Charlotte Evans, Branch Manager, Special Counsel, Shine Lawyers
9.05am to 9.50am: Moseling’s Case Review and Current Trends in Psychiatric Injury Claims
Gain a thorough understanding of the most important psychiatric injury cases and developments from the past year. Analyse the latest changes and key trends around harassment and bullying, nervous shock and sexual abuse claims that are critical for your practice.
Presented by Carl Moseling, Principal, McInnes Wilson Lawyers; Leading Compulsory Third Party Insurance Lawyer (Defendant), Doyle’s Guide 2018
9.50am to 10.35am: What is Reasonable Management Action and Bullying/Harassment?
- How management action is defined
- What is ‘reasonable management action’? Identifying the dividing line between reasonable management action and bullying/harassment
- Identifying the cause of the injury
- Does the injury arise in the course of employment and was employment the major contributing significant factor?
Presented by Susan Anderson, Barrister, Level 33 400 George Street Chambers
Professional Skills
10.35am to 11.20am: Making the Impairment Assessments: Common Myths Examined
- Making the assessment: methodology for discerning between the work-related cause or causes of a psychiatric condition relied on by a claimant and pre-existing or external stressor which are also contributing factors to the development of the condition
- Impairment assessments in secondary psychiatric injuries
- Evidence that is used by the expert: tips to improving the briefs
- What additional information is needed to make a proper assessment
- How much history/collateral information is useful to make their assessment?
Presented by Dr John Chalk, Psychiatrist, Ballow Chambers
11.20am to 11.35am Morning Tea
Professional Skills
11.35am to 12.20pm: Pain Disorders. Really?
- Real injuries vs pain disorders vs good old fashioned lying
- And how to tell the difference
Presented by Dr Joseph Mathew, Psychiatrist
12.20pm to 1.05pm: 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
- Discussion of the recent decision of Caffrey v AAI Limited
Presented by Robert Boal, Barrister, North Quay Barrister Chambers
1.05pm to 1.15pm Final Q&A and Closing Comments by the Chair
Venue
Mercure Brisbane
Level 2, 85-87 North Quay
Brisbane 4000
QLD
Australia