Advancing or Defending Invisible Injury Claims

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> Essential Medical Information For Counsel

• The range of invisible injuries
• Diagnostics available in a given case – what do the various medical specialties contribute? who is qualified to opine on what?
• Rising technologies (e.g. spec scan)

> Current State of the Law on Invisible Injury Claims

• Overview of seminal cases
• What the courts expect as foundational evidence required to support the claim
• Invisible injury in the context of MIG and CAT including the new CAT definition–getting out of the MIG and into CAT
• Scope of damages in these cases
• Long-term disability claims and the invisible injury
• Building the Plaintiff’s Case From First To Last: Making the Invisible Visible
• Getting what you need to substantiate the theory of your case and to present it effectively.
• Credibility of the plaintiff and of experts
• Opening and closing statements
• Use of demonstrative evidence
• Proving damages

> Defences and Constructing the Defence Case

• Including: pre-existing conditions, secondary gain

> Ethical and Professional Issues In Advancing or Defending Against Claims of Invisible Injuries

Faculty

Program Chairs

• David Lackman, Gluckstein Personal Injury Lawyers
• Dena Oberman, Brown & Burnes

• Antonella F. Albano, Senior Legal Counsel, Legal Claims Dept., Intact Insurance Company
• Dr. David Berbrayer, Physiatrist & Consultant, Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, & Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Ronald P. Bohm, SBMB Law
• John Burnes, Brown & Burnes
• Mark Elkin Q.C., Thompson, Tooze, McLean & Elkin
• Susan E. Gunter, Dutton Brock LLP
• Meghan M. Hull Jacquin, Howie, Sacks & Henry LLP
• Alfred M. Kwinter, Singer Kwinter
• Gregory Neinstein, Neinstein LLP
• Wendy H. Sokoloff, Sokoloff Lawyers
• Paul Tushinski, Dutton Brock LLP
• Dr. Karen Wiseman, Psy. D., C. Psych, ABPP, Clinical Neuropsychologist and Clinical Psychologist

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