AMA Guides, 6th Edition: Critical Update for Attorneys and Workers' Comp Professional

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If you or your clients deal with workers' compensation, you don't want to miss the all-new audio conference from Tennessee Attorneys Memo, AMA Guides, 6th Edition: Critical Update for Attorneys and Workers' Comp Professionals.

This critical update will provide an in-depth look at the newly revised Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition from the American Medical Association -- helping you recognize when an impairment rating is too high, too low, or completely misses the mark.

Your speaker, an attorney who has argued twice before the Tennessee Supreme Court to establish ground-breaking legal rulings in workers' compensation, will guide you through the new ratings of the 6th Edition of the AMA Guides for more common work injuries.

In just 60 minutes we'll cover the key features of the new edition, including:

• Only permanent impairment may be rated and only after maximum medical improvement is reached.
• Valid impairment evaluation reports must contain the three-step approach of clinical evaluation, analysis of findings, and discussion of how the impairment rating was calculated.
• The Guides are based on objective criteria. If the findings conflict with established medical principles, they cannot be used to justify an impairment rating.
• Motion and strength determinations should be assessed carefully for self-inhibition (i.e., malingering).
• Ratings of future impairment are not provided.
• If there is more than one method to define impairment, the method producing the higher rating must be used.
• Subjective complaints alone are generally not ratable.
• If pain accompanies the objective findings of an injury or illness that permit rating using another chapter in the Guides, then pain-related impairments are not permitted to serve as add-ons.
  

March 18, 2008

Larry R. "Rocky" McElhaney II is the principal and founding member of Rocky McElhaney Law Firm. He is a 1999 honors graduate of Nashville School of Law. He has argued twice before the Tennessee Supreme Court, establishing ground-breaking legal rulings in workers’ compensation.

Rocky focuses his practice on representing injured people in significant matters of workers’ compensation, personal injury, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, tractor trailer and auto wrecks and disability insurance claims. He does not represent insurance companies. A small part of Rocky’s practice involves representing state chartered financial institutions in creditor’s rights and collection cases.

Rocky is a professor of Legal Writing at Nashville School of Law. He currently serves as President of the Nashville Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division. Rocky is an active member of the Tennessee Association for Justice, serving on the Young Lawyer committee. He is also a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Rocky is a member of the Nashville and Maury County bar associations. He routinely lectures to other lawyers regarding workers’ compensation and trial related issues.

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