Chronic Pain - Key Issues & Considerations for Claimant Personal Injury Lawyers

Introduction

Chronic pain cases are amongst the most complex and challenging types of cases that a personal injury lawyer might handle. The medicine is constantly evolving due to ever increasing understanding of what pain is, the factors that influence it and how to treat it. Chronic pain cases frequently combine complex medico-legal issues with challenging factual scenarios, not to mention plenty of traps for the unwary litigator!

This webinar aims to identify the key considerations you will need to have in mind, as well as offering practical tips and solutions for some of the common issues and problems that can arise.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• What is chronic pain?
• The different diagnoses and new(ish) diagnostic criteria
• The importance of contemporaneous records
• Choosing your experts
• Dealing with pre-accident vulnerability: Acceleration? Aggravation? Something else?
• Credibility: social media, surveillance and fundamental dishonesty

This pre-recorded webinar will be streamed at 12:30pm on Thursday 29th August 2024 and will remain available to view by delegates who have registered by then for 90 days.