An on-the-job injury can be costly, both in terms of money as well as morale and productivity. Ultimately, all parties want to try and get back to status quo as quickly and painlessly as possible. Unfortunately, these claims often cause disagreement and contention, which rarely leads to a mutually advantageous conclusion. How can you avoid all the conflict and achieve the results your client deserves?

Learn a whole new slant on workers' compensation resolution – right from the convenience of your desk. This guide will help you to learn a more cooperative approach to claims that paves the way for a more satisfactory outcome – for all the parties involved. At your fingertips, you'll have valuable tips for carefully choosing new clients, building solid cases from the ground up and smoothly transitioning into a case that's already in progress. You'll also learn proven techniques for troubleshooting factors that are beyond your control and taking corrective steps if your case is being undermined. Present your case persuasively at the hearing and be prepared to factor in some of the hot topics in workers' compensation that may affect your next case. Order today and increase your odds for success.

1. Working With New Clients - Do's and Don'ts for Both Sides
2. Building a Case From the Ground Up
3. Getting Up to Speed With the Case in Progress
4. How to Smooth the Process for Both Sides - Practical Tips and Tactics
5. Controlling Issues That Could Damage or Destroy Your Case
6. What to Do When Your Case is Undermined
7. Hot Topics
8. The Hearing
9. Ethics

1. WORKING WITH NEW CLIENTS - DO'S AND DON'TS FOR BOTH SIDES
   9:00 - 9:35, Todd A. Delcambre and William Ken Hawkins
   1. What to Look for and What to Avoid in a New Client
   2. Obtaining all the Information You Need
   3. Providing Your Client With all the Information They Need
   What Does the Client Want and Can You Deliver It?
2. BUILDING A CASE FROM THE GROUND UP
   9:35 - 10:20, Todd A. Delcambre
   1. Issues to Review
   2. Obtaining Medical Documentation
   3. Communication - Keeping Both Sides Informed
   4. Choosing Your Battles Wisely
   5. Wage Calculations - Hidden Gold Mines or Curses?
   6. Light Duty Job Offers - Issues and Tactics
3. GETTING UP TO SPEED WITH THE CASE IN PROGRESS
   10:35 - 11:10, Todd A. Delcambre
   1. Missing Information - What, if Anything, is Missing? Is it Obtainable? Is it Fixable?
   2. Can You Improve Your Client's Current Position?
   3. Cost Containment Techniques
4. HOW TO SMOOTH THE PROCESS FOR BOTH SIDES - PRACTICAL TIPS AND TACTICS
   11:10 - 12:00, William Ken Hawkins
   1. Getting the Worker Back to a Productive Life
   2. Maximizing Success in Motions for Additional Conditions
   3. Keeping Treatment Authorized and Effective
   4. Getting Bills Paid
5. CONTROLLING ISSUES THAT COULD DAMAGE OR DESTROY YOUR CASE
   1:00 - 1:35, William Ken Hawkins
   1. Intervening Events
   2. Career Ending Injuries
   3. Out of Control Medical Providers
6. WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CASE IS UNDERMINED
   1:35 - 2:00, William Ken Hawkins
   1. Fraud - The Kiss of Death
   2. The Unreasonable Client
7. HOT TOPICS
   2:00 - 2:45, Todd A. Delcambre
   1. Voluntary Abandonment
   2. Drug Testing and Effect on Claims
   3. Zone of Employment - Coming and Going Rules
   4. Subrogation
   5. SMOs and IMEs Under the New Rules
   6. Settlements
   7. Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements
8. THE HEARING
   3:00 - 3:30, Todd A. Delcambre
   1. What Judges Want
   2. Effective Presentation of Evidence
   3. The Key to Building and Winning Your Case
9. ETHICS
   3:30 - 4:30, William Ken Hawkins

TODD A. DELCAMBRE is a partner with the LeBas Law Offices in Lafayette. His areas of practice include workers' compensation, longshore, the Jones Act and subrogation. Mr. Delcambre has worked as a workers' compensation mediator for a year and a half, and has previously spoken at several workers' compensation seminars. He is a member of the Louisiana State and Lafayette bar associations. Mr. Delcambre earned his B.A. and J.D. degrees from Louisiana State University.

WILLIAM KEN HAWKINS is a sole practitioner on the North Shore of Lake Ponchartrain, as well as the Jefferson, Orleans, River Parishes and the extended southeastern areas of Louisiana. He has practiced law throughout south Louisiana since 1988, and has handled workers' compensation and longshore claims exclusively since 1993. Mr. Hawkins is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education seminars, having taught more than 30 workers' compensation seminars to other Louisiana attorneys since he opened his own practice in 1999. In addition to his numerous published articles on Louisiana workers' compensation issues, he frequently testifies at the Louisiana House of Representatives and State Senate Labor committees on behalf of injured workers regarding proposed workers' compensation law. In 2004, Mr. Hawkins was appointed by Governor Kathleen Blanco to the Advisory Council on workers' compensation. He was reappointed in 2008 by Governor Bobby Jindal. As the plaintiff's attorney representative on the council, Mr. Hawkins drafts legislation and frequently testifies at the House and Senate Labor committees about laws that affect injured workers in Louisiana. Long recognized for his ability to resolve disputes in a gentle and thoughtful manner, he also mediates workers' compensation and longshore claims with his long-time mentor, Charles R. "Chuck" Davoli.

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