Are you fully prepared to handle workers' compensation claims? Walk through the step-by-step practicalities of handling a workers' compensation case, from initial intake through the hearing process. Whether you represent the claimant or the defendant, you'll gain the knowledge you need to effectively advise and zealously defend your client's position. Order today!

1. Overview of Laws and Concepts
2. Preparing Your Case: Procedures for Claimant and Defendant
3. Determining the Value of the Claim
4. Medical Issues During the Claim
5. Settlement Options (Including MSA Considerations)
6. Hearings: Practice and Procedure
7. Recovery From Third Parties

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1. OVERVIEW OF LAWS AND CONCEPTS
   9:00 - 10:00, Lucas J. Foust and Patrick T. Fox
   1. State and Federal Workers' Compensation Laws
      1. Scope of Employer Liability
      2. Who is Covered? – Employees, Independent Contractors, Subcontractors
      3. Compensability? – Injuries and Occupational Diseases
      4. Affirmative Defenses
      5. Extraterritorial Application of State Laws
      6. Non-Occupational Disability Benefit Laws
   2. Types of Benefits and Claims
   3. Statute and Case Law Update
2. PREPARING YOUR CASE: PROCEDURES FOR CLAIMANT AND DEFENDANT
   10:15 - 11:15, Lucas J. Foust and Patrick T. Fox
   1. Claimant's Attorney: Intake, Investigation and Case Preparation
   2. Defendants' Attorney: Receipt of the File, Investigation and Case Preparation
3. DETERMINING THE VALUE OF THE CLAIM
   11:15 - 12:00, Lucas J. Foust and Patrick T. Fox
4. MEDICAL ISSUES DURING THE CLAIM
   1:00 - 1:50, Lucas J. Foust and Patrick T. Fox
   1. Medical Discovery Issues
   2. Choice of Doctor
   3. Second Medical Opinions
   4. Medical Evaluation Issues and IMEs
   5. Vocational Rehabilitation and Functional Capacity Evaluations
5. SETTLEMENT OPTIONS (INCLUDING MSA CONSIDERATIONS)
   1:50 - 2:45, Lucas J. Foust and Patrick T. Fox
   1. Mediation Strategy
   2. Liens
   3. Medicare Set Aside (MSA) Considerations and Medicare Secondary Payer Act (MSPA) Requirements
6. HEARINGS: PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
   3:00 - 3:45, Lucas J. Foust and Patrick T. Fox
7. RECOVERY FROM THIRD PARTIES
   3:45 - 4:30, Lucas J. Foust and Patrick T. Fox

LUCAS J. FOUST is owner of Foust Law Office in Bozeman, Montana, where he specializes in personal injury, worker's compensation and criminal defense work. Mr. Foust is a Montana native. He received his B.A. degree from Gonzaga University in 1992 and finished his law degree at the University of Montana, School of Law in 1996. Upon graduation from law school, he began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable Justice, W. William Leapheart, of the Montana Supreme Court. Following his clerkship, Mr. Foust began practicing law as a public defender for the Lewis and Clark County Public Defender's Office in Helena, Montana. For two years, he worked as a public defender, taking 25 cases to jury trial in a 24 month period. In 1999, he moved to Bozeman, Montana, starting Foust Law Office, where he has practiced since.

PATRICK T. FOX is an attorney in the Helena law firm of Doubek, Pyfer & Fox, LLP. He focuses his practice in plaintiffs personal injury, medical malpractice, products liability, trial and appellate practice, and workers compensation. Mr. Fox attended undergraduate school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill as a Morehead Scholar (now known as the Morehead-Cain Scholars Program). After college, he moved back to Montana to attend the University of Montana Law School.  Mr. Fox is a member of the State Bar of Montana, the Montana Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice.

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