This seminar provides two days of cutting-edge instruction targeted to defense attorneys, claims professionals, risk management personnel, and in-house counsel. It offers advanced presentations by a faculty composed of physicians, lawyers and healthcare professionals. Topics will address how to assess and defend against claims of serious emotional and psychological distress; the impact of obesity in litigation and how it affects cases; updates to the current status of Medicare Secondary Payer laws and reporting requirements; strategies for defending cases involving healthcare “never ends”; state medical boards: the new adversary; and techniques for settling high-damages cases.