Disc 1 [01:30:00]

1. Mastering Personal Injury Cases For Doctors
2. Overview
3. Understanding How Your Notes Are Used in a PI Case
4. Understanding All of the Patient’s Potential Insurance Claims
5. What Should Your Patients Do and Not Do Immediately After a Collision?
6. The Initial Patient Visit and Subsequent Chart Notes
7. The Law on Preexisting Conditions

Disc 2 [01:08:00]

1. Overcoming Minor Impact Defenses
2. How Are Injury Claims Divided?
3. Minor Impact and Special Investigations Unit Cases
4. Problems Caused by Direct Referral Program Body Shops
5. Problems with Aftermarket (Non-OEM) Parts
6. The Financial Competition to Undervalue Vehicle Damage
7. Special Investigations Unit
8. Determining Causation
9. Common Defenses
10. Malingering
11. Somatoform Disorder
12. Claims That Your Patient Has a Personality Disorder

Disc 3 [01:12:00]

1. Liens and Settlement Reduction Requests
2. Liens and Settlement Reduction Requests
3. Responses to Calls to Reduce Your Bill
4. Research Disproving Typical Insurance Defenses
5. Imaging: DMX and Differences in MRI Quality
6. AMA Permanent Impairment from Spinal Instability
7. Problems with the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment, Sixth Edition
8. The Important Difference between the Words “Possible,” “Probable,” and “Certain”
9. C1 Instability Cases
10. Narrative Reports
11. Problems with Your Client Settling a Third-Party Claim without a Lawyer
12. Patients with Multiple Crashes, Apportionment, and Litigation

Disc 4 [01:55:00]

1. Records in Motor Vehicle Cases
2. What is Happening with Settlements?
3. Colossus—How Your Records Impact Settlement Values
4. The Importance of Re-diagnosing When Necessary
5. Diagnoses
6. Preexisting Conditions
7. Permanent Impairment
8. Prognosis
9. Duties Under Duress/Disability
10. Loss of Enjoyment of Life
11. Other Colossus Factors
12. Records in Litigation
13. Lawyer Referrals

Disc 5 [01:19:00]

1. Commonly Missed Traumatic Injuries
2. Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI)
3. Seizures from TBI
4. Endocrine/Hormonal Changes after TBI
5. Neurological Consequences of TBI
6. Physical and Chemical Changes after TBI
7. Glasgow Coma Score in TBI Cases
8. Ensuring the Defense Uses the Standard Definition of Mild TBI
9. Warning Signs of a Brain Bleed after Trauma
10. Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
11. Inner Ear Injuries
12. Alar and Transverse Ligament Injuries
13. Neuropsychology—What Do the Reports Mean?

Disc 6 [02:11:00]

1. From Crash Through Trial
2. Overview of the Claim and Litigation Timeline
3. The Insurance Bodily Injury Claims Adjustor
4. The Period from Wreck to Demand
5. Considering Whether to Go to Trial
6. From Filing to Trial
7. The Treating Doctor’s Role in the Patient’s Litigation
8. Giving Your Deposition
9. Trial Testimony
10. Trial Testimony (continued)
11. Cross-Examination
12. Judicial Order in Peter’s Case

Total running time: 9.25 hours (555 minutes)