Managing Your Case: Maximizing Recovery, Mitigating Damages
Speaker: Peter Leventis
Thursday, August 24, 2023
This program qualifies for 3.0 MCLE credit hours.
SC Supreme Commission on CLE Course #: 930057
8:30 a.m.
Registration
8:55 a.m.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9 a.m.
Intake of a New File and SCWCC Standard Forms
- Intake from the Claimant’s Perspective
- Intake from the Defense Perspective
- Most Commonly Used Forms and Pleadings (F15, F20, F21, F27, F50, F51 & F58)
9:50 a.m.
Break
10 a.m.
Average Weekly Wage and Comp
- Concurrent Employment
- “Extraordinary Circumstances” to deviate
- Stacking Wages and Classes of Prescribed AWW/CR’s
- Other Classes of Employees
10:50 a.m.
Break
11 a.m.
Body Parts and Medical Care
- Which body parts are alleged/directly injured? Which body parts/systems are affected?
- Which body parts are admitted/and being provided medical care?
- Who is paying for medical care, emergency care on date of accident or after?
- Mileages, prescriptions, EMS rides and other things it is better to address on the front end of the claim.
11:50 a.m.
Mock pre-hearing conference in front of Comm. Leventis – audience participation, questions from the audience, and follow-up practitioners’ points from the mock pre-hearing conference.
12:10 p.m.
Adjourn