4th Annual Workers Compensation Conference
Our 4th Annual Workers Compensation Conference has been designed to provide you with the latest legislative updates and other developments, while enabling you to gain your CPD core competency area points on issues specific to your practice. You will pick up practical tips to gain an edge for your clients, develop your practice, and learn how to avoid ethical pitfalls that can trip up your matters and your practice.
Description
Attend and earn 7 CPD units including:
4 units in Substantive Law
1 unit in Ethics & Professional Responsibility
1 unit in Professional Skills
1 unit in Practice Management
This conference was recorded in VIC on 14 November 2018
Session 1
Latest Developments and Issues in Workers Compensation
Chair: Tony Kenyon, Principal, Kenyon Legal, Recommended Work Injury Compensation Lawyer, Doyle’s Guide 2017
9.00am to 10.00am: WorkCover Statutory Benefits Update
An analysis of recent trends in workers compensation with a focus on key developments in jurisprudence and its practical implications.
Presented by
10.00am to 11.00am: Workers Compensation and Common Law Claims for Psychiatric or Psychological Injury
- What can be claimed?
- What is constitutes bullying?
- What are the inherent limitations in these claims?
- Reasonable management action defence
- Strategic considerations in running a psychiatric injury case
- Recent cases
Presented by Jing Zhu, Barrister, Lennon’s List
11.00am to 11.15am Morning Tea
11.15am to 12.15pm: Work Accidents and TAC: Their Interaction
- What is the general rule when a work accident occurs and it involves the driving of a motor vehicle?
- What happens if it only involves the use of a motor vehicle?
- What are the benefits of having the work accident covered by TAC for common law purposes?
- How do you put in for a serious injury certificate with TAC in such circumstances?
- Aside from the obvious vehicle claims, in what other situations can the TAC be involved?
- What evidence may be needed from the outset?
- What generally happens if the vehicle is not registered, and therefore not insured by TAC?
- What outcomes can you anticipate?
Presented by Henry Carus, Principal, Henry Carus Associates Injury Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law; Recommended Work Injury Compensation Lawyers (Plaintiff), Doyles Guide 2017
12.15pm to 1.15pm: Dependency Claims
- Statutory entitlements available following a work-related death
- Damages recoverable under the Wrongs Act 1958
- Review of the most important case law
- WorkSafe statistics relating to dependency claims
Presented by Michel Margalit, Partner, Le Grand Margalit Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law; committee member, Law Institute of Victoria Workers’ Compensation Committee
Session 2
CPD Compulsory Units for Workers Compensation Lawyers
Chair: Stuart Le Grand, Partner, Le Grand Margalit Lawyers; Accredited Specialist in Personal Injury Law
Ethics & Professional Responsibility
2.00pm to 3.00pm: Conflicts of Interest and Confidentiality: Managing a Collision of Interests
- Managing your ethical obligations when you think your client may be lying
- Unfavourable social media posts: To delete or not to delete?
- The other side have said that you will be called as a material witness in your client’s case: Can you continue to act?
- Responding to a statutory demand for your client’s confidential information
Presented by Donna Cooper, Ethics Consultant, ethics4lawyers
Professional Skills
3.00pm to 4.00pm: Identifying the Key Issues and Marshalling Best Evidence in Stress Claims
- Identifying rates and costs of stress claims and why there is no improvement
- Legal duties that need to be operationalised to prevent stress claims
- Understanding the basis for rejecting stress claims and strategy
- Determining the basis for terminating stress claims and strategy
- Premium improvement and business case
Presented by Andrew Douglas, Managing Principal, FCW Lawyers
4.00pm to 4.15pm Afternoon Tea
Practice Management
4.15pm to 5.15pm: Risk Management in the Management of Multiple WorkCover Claims
- High volume caseloads: structuring your practice to ensure efficient and proficient file progress
- WorkSafe: using the WorkSafe website to assist in file progression
- Managing critical time limits in the WorkCover jurisdiction
Presented by Jodie Harris, Partner, Ryan Carlisle Thomas; Recommended Work Injury Compensation Lawyers (Plaintiff), Doyle’s Guide 2017