PBA Fall Section Meeting
I just returned from the annual Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers' Compensation Fall Section Meeting which is held every September in Hershey, Pennsylvania. I always look forward to attending the Fall Section Meeting because it provides a great opportunity for Pennsylvania workers' compensation attorneys to review new developments in the law and to catch up with our colleagues. This year's topics included presentations on legal ethics, recent developments in workers' compensation law, Medicare Set Aside Agreements, and employment law for the workers' compensation practitioner.
The Fall Section Meeting is consistently one of the best continuing legal education programs that I attend and the faculty did another excellent job this year The highlight of this year's meeting was a presentation by Professor Samuel D. Hodge, Jr on the anatomy of the spine. Professor Hodge is the Chair of Legal Studies at Temple University and specializes in teaching anatomy to lawyers. I've actually lost count of how many depositions of doctors that I have attended that involve neck and back injuries, and Professor Hodge provided the best overview of the anatomy of the spine that I've ever heard, and really provided some useful information that I think I can use in future depositions with physicians who tend to minimize or ignore evidence of ongoing work-related disability.
The program was excellent and a hat tip goes to the faculty and course planners for another excellent seminar.
