ÿþ<title>The 25th Annual Workers' Compensation Institute - Schedule and Faculty</title> <table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="8" cellpadding="0" id="table1"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top" colspan="2"> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 32px"> <b> <font face="Arial" color="#333333" size="4"> <a target="_blank" href="/Materials/Seminars/53110.pdf"> <img border="0" src="/Materials/Seminars/53110_brochure.jpg" align="right"></a>The 25th Annual Workers' Compensation Institute</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 6px"> <font face="Arial" color="#CC6633" size="4"> Schedule and Faculty</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 32px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2">Schedule times listed below are for the live seminar. Times for replays may differ due to varied start times and abbreviated lunch and break periods. Please refer to the </font></i><b> <font face="Arial" style="font-size: 9pt">DATES/LOCATION</font></b><i><font face="Arial" size="2"> tab for individual replay start times.</font></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"><b><font face="Arial" size="3">Day 1  Friday, April 16, 2010</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">8:00  8:30 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">CHECK-IN &amp; CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">8:30  8:40 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">Blow Out the Candles! </font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">Welcome to the 25th Year of the Institute</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> David B. Kempston &amp; Janet Monson, Institute Co-Chairs</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"><b> <font face="Arial" style="font-size: 11pt"><br> </font> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <span style="background-color: #FEE794">&nbsp;WHAT S NEW THIS YEAR& </span></font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">8:40  9:00 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">New Workers Compensation Rules and Legislation Under Consideration This Year</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">An update on legislative and OAH rules developments.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> David B. Kempston &amp; Janet Monson</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">9:00  9:30 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">The ADAAA, the &quot;New&quot; EEOC Regulations and Stepped-up Enforcement  What Does It All Mean for Workers Compensation?</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (&quot;ADAAA&quot;) has significantly broadened the definition of &quot;disability,&quot; the EEOC has issued proposed expansive definitions of &quot;substantial limitation&quot; and &quot;major life activity&quot; (along with a list of medical conditions that may and may not be covered disabilities) and has embarked on an aggressive enforcement stance. What does this mean for workers compensation practitioners? Will recent EEOC litigation change the rules around &quot;light duty&quot; work and its application to workers compensation and non-workers compensation-related disabilities?</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Penelope J. Phillips</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">9:30  10:00 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">New Minnesota Cases: The Year s Most Significant Workers Compensation Cases</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Highlights from the most noteworthy workers compensation cases decided this year by the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Minnesota Workers Compensation Court of Appeals.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Jeffrey W. Jacobs</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">10:00  10:15 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">BREAK</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><br> </font> <font face="Arial" style="background-color: #FEE794" size="2"> <b>&nbsp;& AND NEW PERSPECTIVES ON PERENNIALLY HOT TOPICS </b></font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">10:15 a.m.  11:00 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">Medicare Set Asides: Where We ve Come, Where We Are and What We re Doing</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">A practical session on significant issues for practitioners dealing with Medicare Set Asides. Topics will include: (1) Recognizing when and/or if your case requires dealing with Medicare in terms of Notice, Reporting Regulations, and Medicare Set Asides; (2) If so, how to do it  including sample letters, forms, and contact information; (3) Dealing with Medicare as an intervenor; and (4) Tips for how to best effect a settlement of its intervention interest  including sample letters, forms, and contact information.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Charlene K. Feenstra</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">11:00  11:45 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">The Difficult Client: How to Move Beyond &quot;No&quot;</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">A client s resistance to settlement can be caused by many factors: unrealistic expectations, the endowment effect, inadequate information, principle, externalities, emotionality, and a host of other impediments. National negotiations expert Nina Meierding will examine causes of resistance and identify specific techniques that we can use that are customized to the particular client s obstacles to settlement.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Nina R. Meierding</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">11:45 a.m.  12:15 p.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">Judge Stofferahn s Top Ten  10 Things NOT to Do on Appeal</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Laying the groundwork at the hearing for a losing appeal. Writing a losing brief. How to lose the appeal at oral argument.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Judge David A. Stofferahn</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">12:15  1:30 p.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">LUNCH (on your own)</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">1:30  2:30 p.m. </font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="background-color: #CCCCCC">&nbsp;BREAKOUT SESSION A </span></font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">1) Annual Case Law Update  In Depth</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">The annual comprehensive review of significant workers compensation cases decided by the Minnesota Supreme Court and the Workers Compensation Court of Appeals.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Jeffrey W. Jacobs</font></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b><font face="Arial" size="2">2) Retraining and Exploration of Retraining</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">An update and practical discussion of the often hotly contested issues surrounding retraining and exploration of retraining under Minnesota workers compensation law.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Ruth M. Harvey</font></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b><font face="Arial" size="2">3) Competitive Negotiation  Tips for Dealing with Tactics</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Tactics are intentional behaviors designed to manipulate the other party s (or their attorney s) emotions and behavior. National negotiations expert Nina Meierding and experienced workers compensation attorney Peter Pustorino will explore specific negotiation tactics and possible responses that can effectively identify and neutralize such tactics.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Nina R. Meierding &amp; Peter J. Pustorino<br>  David B. Kempston, moderator</font></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b><font face="Arial" size="2">4) &quot;Why Can t We Just Get Along&quot;  Ethical Issues in Workers Compensation Disputes</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i><b> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC6633">1.0 ethics credit applied for</font></b></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Ethical and professionalism considerations in workers compensation cases. Including ethics in discovery disputes: what to provide, what to withhold, and the wisdom to know the difference.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Thomas J. Beedem III &amp; David J. Klaiman</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">2:30  2:45 p.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">BREAK</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">2:45  3:45 p.m. </font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="background-color: #CCCCCC">&nbsp;BREAKOUT SESSION B </span></font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b><font face="Arial" size="2">5) Workers Compensation and Immigrants: Cross-Practice Questions of Eligibility and Strategy</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Your presenters  one an immigration attorney, one a workers compensation attorney  provide a comprehensive update on important questions of eligibility and strategy: When do lawful and unlawful immigrants qualify for workers compensation in Minnesota? How does the unlawful immigration status of a worker bear on continuing workers compensation eligibility? When does receipt of workers compensation benefits have a bearing on an employee s ability to maintain or acquire immigration status for himself and family members?</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Howard S. (Sam) Myers III &amp; Jerry W. Sisk</font></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b><font face="Arial" size="2">6) How Bad Is It? A QRC Perspective on Effective Placement in the Current Market</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Placement in the current economy; the placement process; assessment of placeability and employability; goal setting; structure of job search; and common errors of job search.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Steven M. Kurenitz</font></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b><font face="Arial" size="2">7) Attorneys Fees  Update and Analysis</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Recent developments in Roraff/Irwin and excess fee claims.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Allen R. Webb</font></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b><font face="Arial" size="2">8) Elimination of Bias: The Impact of Culture on Negotiation and Communication</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i><b> <font face="Arial" size="2" color="#CC6633">2-hour session<br> 2.0 elimination of bias credits applied for</font></b></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">This highly interactive two-hour workshop will explore how we as attorneys, judges, claims adjusters and qualified rehabilitation consultants can better understand and communicate with clients whose backgrounds are different from our own. This program discusses the impact of issues such as styles of communication, approaches to risk, attitudes about time and processing, attitudes about fairness, and &quot;when is a deal a deal&quot; in different cultures.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Nina R. Meierding</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">3:45  4:00 p.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">BREAK</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">4:00  5:00 p.m. </font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2" style="background-color: #CCCCCC"> &nbsp;BREAKOUT SESSION C </font> </b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2"><b>Elimination of Bias: The Impact of Culture on Negotiation and Communication</b> (continued)</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b><font face="Arial" size="2">9) The Dreaded Penalty Claim</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">A primer on state-imposed versus direct claims, and a practicum on how to defend them.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Tracy M. Borash</font></i></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> &nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">10) Permanent Total Disability: How to Successfully Prove Up and Defend</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Discussion of thresholds, medical and vocational evidence, retirement defense, removal from job market, significant case law and practice pointers.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Shannon A. Nelson &amp; Craig B. Nichols</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">5:00  6:00 p.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" color="#333333" size="4"> <img border="0" src="/Materials/Seminars/53110_logo.jpg" align="right"></font><font face="Arial" size="2">Special 25th Annual Institute Reception  A chance to win great prizes!</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">We re celebrating the 25th year of the Institute. Join colleagues and friends for complimentary beverages, gourmet hors d oeuvres, and a chance to win great prizes. </font> </p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"><b> <font face="Arial" size="3">Day 2  Saturday, April 17, 2010</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"><b> <font face="Arial" size="3">&quot;Medical Saturday&quot;</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"><br> <font face="Arial" size="2">8:30  9:00 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">9:00  10:05 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">The &quot;Nuts and Bolts&quot; of Spinal Fusions  Including Multi-Level Fusions</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Recent technological advances, and an honest appraisal of when they succeed and when they don t.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Daryll C. Dykes, M.D., Ph.D.</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">10:05  10:15 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">BREAK</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">10:15  11:20 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">Work-Related Shoulder and Elbow Injuries: The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">Factors that lead to good overall outcomes of shoulder and elbow surgery. Measuring outcomes of shoulder and elbow surgery. Workers compensation surgeries from the surgeon s perspective.</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Michael Q. Freehill, M.D.</font></i></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">11:20  11:30 a.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">BREAK</font></p> </blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">11:30  12:35 p.m.</font></p> <blockquote> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <b> <font face="Arial" size="2">RSD: Containing Costs While Maximizing Treatment</font></b></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <font face="Arial" size="2">RSD can (and often does) result in psychological distress. Pre-existing psychological disorders can indirectly lead to iatrogenic RSD  which is to say, treatment-induced RSD. Both cost containment and treatment optimization hinge on identifying high risk personality disordered patients before treatment careens out of control. This session provides information to aid in that discernment: A discussion of the pathophysiology of RSD; the psychological effects of chronic pain; the risks inherent in the medical treatment of personality disordered patients, including iatrogenic drug addiction; and the risk of unnecessary invasive procedures (because of over-reporting and magnifying symptoms).</font></p> <p style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 3px"> <i> <font face="Arial" size="2"> Leesa Scott-Morrow, Ph.D., J.D., L.P.</font></i></p> </blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top">&nbsp;</td> <td align="left" valign="top" width="100%"> &nbsp;</td> </tr> </table>