AMA Guides: Understanding Their History andApplication The AMA Guides play an integral role in workers’ compensation cases. This comprehensive session provides workers’ compensation judges with essential knowledge about the historical context, latest developments, and practical application of the AMA Guides, with particular emphasis on its implications for judicial decision-making. Links Recording of Full Presentation (1:14:44) […]
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MegaSession video: “Achieving Shorter Disability Durations and Better Outcomes”
On December 7, 2017, at the National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference, Dr. Brigham had the opportunity to speak in the MegaSession on “Living Abled! Achieving Shorter Disability Durations and Better Outcomes.” Medical providers, attorneys, insurers, employers, and an individual’s coping and resiliency strengths all contribute to determining why people with similar injuries or illnesses […]
Needless dis/ability and a flawed medical industry
Many of the challenges we face in workers’ compensation are the results of flawed processes and the wrong incentives — that drive certain behaviors — ultimately harming injured workers and society. There is a increasing awareness of need for change to a “biopsychosocial” approach for claims management. Highly recommend the new documentary “Escape Fire: The […]
