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. Ethics
8. The Hearing

1. WORKING WITH NEW CLIENTS - DO'S AND DON'TS FOR BOTH SIDES
   9:00 - 9:30, Timothy Belt, Robert N. Gawlas Jr. and Jeffrey M. Seyfried
   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
   4. What Does the Client Want and Can You Deliver It?
2. BUILDING A CASE FROM THE GROUND UP
   9:30 - 10:20, Robert N. Gawlas Jr.
   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 - 11:20, Jeffrey M. Seyfried
   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
   11:20 - 12:00, Timothy Belt and Jeffrey M. Seyfried
   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 - 1:45, Timothy Belt
   1. Intervening Events
   2. Career Ending Injuries
   3. Out of Control Medical Providers
6. WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CASE IS UNDERMINED
   1:45 - 2:30, Timothy Belt
   1. Fraud - The Kiss of Death
   2. The Unreasonable Client
7. ETHICS
   2:45 - 3:45, Timothy Belt
8. THE HEARING
   3:45 - 4:30, Jeffrey M. Seyfried
   1. What Commissioners Want
   2. Effective Presentation of Evidence
   3. The Key to Building and Winning Your Case

TIMOTHY BELT is an attorney at Fendler & Associates, P.C., where he focuses his practice on worker's compensation, personal injury and social security disability. He has focused his practice on workers' compensation since 2001, and has successfully litigated workers' compensation claims on behalf of injured workers' and employers before workers' compensation judges, the workers' compensation appeal board and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Mr. Belt's current workers' compensation practice consists exclusively of the representation of injured workers. Before joining Fendler & Associates, P.C., he was employed as an associate in the workers' compensation section of Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman and Goggin, P.C., and as an associate in the workers' compensation section of Laputka, Bayless, Ecker & Cohn, P.C. Mr. Belt earned his B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Ozarks and his J.D. degree from Villanova University School of Law. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, the Workers' Compensation Section of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, the Wyoming and Sullivan County bar associations, and the Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association.

ROBERT N. GAWLAS JR. is a partner in the law firm of Rosenn, Jenkins & Greenwald LLP, where his areas of practice include construction litigation, civil litigation, commercial litigation, environmental law, workers' compensation and insurance litigation. Mr. Gawlas has spoken to various business and professional groups on construction law, environmental law and workers' compensation issues. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (member, sections on: Civil Litigation; Workers' Compensation; Environmental Law) and the Wilkes-Barre Law and Library Association (member, Local Rules and Environmental Law committees). Mr. Gawlas earned his A.B. degree from Dartmouth College and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from Dickinson School of Law.

JEFFREY M. SEYFRIED is an attorney in the litigation department of the Philadelphia firm, White & Williams LLP. He practices exclusively in the area of workers' compensation defense, and represents self-insureds, third-party administrators and insurance companies in all aspects of workers' compensation defense work. Mr. Seyfried litigates workers' compensation matters in all jurisdictions of Pennsylvania. He also frequently speaks at workers' compensation related seminars. Mr. Seyfried earned his B.S. degree from Clarion University and his J.D. degree, magna cum laude, from Widener University School of Law. He is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and is a member of the Workers' Compensation Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Defense Institute, the Northampton County Bar Association and the Dauphin County Bar Association.  In 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009, Mr. Seyfried was named in a survey of his peers as a Pennsylvania "Rising Star" attorney by Law & Politics magazine. 

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