Preparing Your Car Crash Case (2025)

Session 01: Discovery in Car Crash Cases: Navigating Discovery to Avoid Another Crash - A discussion about the discoverability and admissibility of medical records and medical bills, discovery involving non-retained experts, handling adverse medical exams, responding to discovery requests and motion for protection practice.

Session 02: View From the Bench - Practical advice for how to conduct effective, ethical, and efficient discovery.

Session 03: Negotiating with Insurance Adjusters - Learn how to ensure you have properly prepared your adjuster, and the insurance company, to get the case settled for your client before mediation or negotiations.

Session 04: Fifth Amendment: The Right Way and The Wrong Way - This presentation focuses on the application of the Fifth Amendment in a discovery context.

Session 05: Medical Bills in Car Crash Cases - Whether you’re an experienced trial lawyer or tackling your first car crash case, proving and challenging medical expenses can be daunting. Break down the nuts and bolts of this critical damages element, as well as more advanced strategies and recent case law impacting this ever-evolving area of the law.

Session 06: Using Medical Illustrations to Advocate - Explore how to create accurate and effective medical demonstrative aids that can be utilized to communicate the mechanism of injury and convey complex medical issues in a clear and simple way. Through visual presentation, learn the process of how to create and incorporate medical illustrations to educate adjusters, judges, and juries.