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1. Selected Issues in Workers' Compensation Law
2. Causal Relationship, Apportionment and the Fund
3. Medical Issues and Their Role in the Complex Workers' Compensation Claim
4. Ethical Obligations
5. Litigation Techniques for the Difficult Workers' Compensation Case

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1. SELECTED ISSUES IN WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW
   9:00 - 10:30, Henry Doner
   1. Permanent Total Disability
   2. Permanent Partial Disability
   3. Managed Health Care Provisions
   4. Self-Insurance Update
   5. Computation of Benefits
   6. Workers' Compensation Fraud
   7. Settlement
   8. Reopenings
   9. Average Weekly Wage Considerations
2. CAUSAL RELATIONSHIP, APPORTIONMENT AND THE FUND
   10:45 - 12:00, Jeffrey S. Roth
   1. Understanding the Fund Liability Requirements and Available Defenses
   2. Using the Fund to Your Client's Advantage
   3. Causal Relationship Considerations
   4. Apportionment of Pre-Existing or Unrelated Post-Accident Disabilities
   5. Considerations Regarding the Fund Involvement
3. MEDICAL ISSUES AND THEIR ROLE IN THE COMPLEX WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIM
   1:00 - 2:00, Michael L. Bileci
   1. Psychiatric Injuries
   2. Occupational Stress Claims
      1. Establishing Stress Claims
      2. Proving Compensability
      3. Benefits Available for Stress Claims
      4. Injury Fund Claims
   3. Work-Related Aggravations of Pre-Existing Conditions
   4. Repetitive Motion and Related Injuries
   5. Vocational Rehabilitation
      1. Impact of Injury Upon the Worker and “Suitable Gainful Employment”
      2. Effective Tools for Dealing With Injured Workers
      3. Cost-Effective Rehabilitation
      4. The Role of Physical Therapy
4. ETHICAL OBLIGATIONS
   2:15 - 3:15, Michael L. Bileci, Christine DiMuzio Sorochen, Henry Doner, and Jeffrey S. Roth
   1. Rules of Professional Conduct
   2. Contacts With Parties, Doctors and Rehabilitation Personnel
   3. Attorneys' Fees
   4. Lawyer Liability
5. LITIGATION TECHNIQUES FOR THE DIFFICULT WORKERS' COMPENSATION CASE
   3:15 - 4:30, Christine DiMuzio Sorochen
   1. Preparation of the Injured Employee's Case
   2. Preparation of the Employer's Case
   3. Presenting Evidence in the Workers' Compensation Case
   4. Settlement Strategies
   5. ADA and the Injured Worker
   6. Family and Medical Leave Act

MICHAEL L. BILECI is an attorney with Capehart Scatchard, Attorneys at Law. He focuses his practice in the representation of employers, self-insured companies and insurance carriers in workers' compensation defense matters. Mr. Bileci earned his B.A. degree, cum laude, from St. Joseph's University and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Widener University School of Law. He is the author of "Can Employers Still Assert the Idiopathic Fall Defense?" in the Capehart Scatchard Workers' Compensation Newsletter. Mr. Bileci taught the in-house exam works class called, Important Court Decisions Which You Need To Know. He is a member of the South Jersey Claims Association. Mr. Bileci is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

CHRISTINE DIMUZIO SOROCHEN is an attorney with Hoffman DiMuzio & Hoffman. Her areas of practice include workers' compensation and Social Security disability law. Ms. Sorochen created groundbreaking new law by advocating the rights of an injured worker before the New Jersey Supreme Court in Brunell v. Wildwood Crest Police Dep't. She earned her B.A. degree, with a double-major in psychology and English, from the University of Delaware. Ms. Sorochen earned her J.D. degree, cum laude, with a Certificate of Achievement, from Widener University School of Law. She is a member of the Gloucester County Bar Association, and is admitted to practice in New Jersey and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

HENRY DONER is a managing partner with Doner & Castro. His areas of law practice consist of plaintiff's injury representation, workers' compensation claims, residential real estate transactions and defense of motor vehicle traffic violations. Mr. Doner is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University and the Widener University School of Law. He is admitted to the New Jersey State, New York State and Pennsyvania bar associations. Mr. Doner is also admitted to the federal districts of New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. He has served as a board member and officer in various for profit and not for profit businesses in the Southern New Jersey area, and was a staff writer for the Delaware Law Forum.

JEFFREY S. ROTH is a partner with Roth & Roth in Lakewood, New Jersey. Mr. Roth was a municipal judge for the Eagleswood, Jackson, and Manalapan townships. He was also acting/conflict municipal court judge for Ocean County Vicinage. Mr. Roth earned his A.B. degree from Rutgers University and his J.D. degree from Widener University School of Law. He is a member of the American Judges Association; American Bar Association; New Jersey State Bar Association; Ocean County Bar Association; District III-A Ethics Committee; New Jersey State Bar Association Committee on Sports-Related Law; and Trial Lawyers Association. He is also a chairman of Ocean County Bar Association Membership Committee.

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