IICLE’s Fourth Annual Workers’ Compensation Institute will update you on the latest developments in the field and continue to assist you in taking your workers’ compensation practice to the next level! Sophisticated issues, such as an analysis of the most recent work comp cases, medical and scientific proof, stress cases, and an in-depth discussion of the Corn Belt case and its impact on PPD analyses, will be covered. The pitfalls of missing deadlines, as well as the new IWCC rules, will also be discussed. You won’t want to miss this terrific opportunity to network with Commissioners and Arbitrators and other workers’ comp attorneys!

IICLE’s Fifth Annual Workers’ Compensation Institute will continue to assist you in taking your workers’ compensation practice to the next level! Sophisticated issues, such as vocational rehabilitation, rebuttable presumptions, third-party subrogation, and special considerations regarding settlement, are covered. The unintended consequences of e-filing and ethical considerations facing the workers’ comp attorney are also discussed.

The 6th Annual Workers’ Compensation Institute will help you handle your most difficult cases more effectively. Learn how to prove and defend repetitive trauma claims (including analysis of the accident, notice and medical causation), prove up medical bills, and effectively handle occupational disease and hearing loss cases. You also won’t want to miss the annual case law update and hearing from the decisionmakers!

Better manage insurance coverage issues by learning sophisticated tips about how to tender to insurers, respond to claims, preserve coverage defenses, avoid estoppel, handle claims in good faith, file for declaratory judgment and understand complicated privilege and ethical issues. Emerging issues, such as technological advances facing the insurance industry and the proposed Restatement of Insurance Liability Law, are also covered.

At the IICLE® Medical Evidence for Lawyers program, physicians will explain the most common injuries suffered by civil litigants and help you better understand how to decipher complicated medical records. Our expert attorneys will increase your effectiveness during discovery and doctor depositions. They will also help you determine whether to conduct an Independent Medical Examination as well as how to best manage ongoing disability, handle evidentiary conundrums, and most persuasively present medical evidence at trial.

Are you NEW (or newer?) to handling Workers’ Compensation claims for either Petitioners or Respondents? Or want to brush up on your trial skills? The IICLE Work Comp Trial Boot Camp features experienced work comp practitioners on both sides sharing their knowledge and best tips to make you a better lawyer! You will learn about the unique rules of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission and how to try a work comp case from beginning to end. Bring all your questions to the faculty Q&A panel at the end of the day, too!