The State Bar of Michigan’s Workers’ Compensation Law Section will conduct its Winter Meeting on Friday, December 9, from 9 a.m. to noon in person at St. John’s Resort, Judea Room, 44045 Five Mile Rd. in Plymouth, or online via Zoom.
The meeting agenda includes:
• 8:30 a.m. Hot Breakfast
• 9 a.m. General Business Meeting
• 10:15 a.m. Guest Speaker Nathan Gross, MD—A medical synopsis of those afflicted with work injuries while suffering from pre-existing age-related degenerative changes and the issues associated with proving a medically distinguishable change of pathology.
• 11 a.m. Guest Speaker Michael Reinholm, Accident Fund Company—The evolution and history of case law before and after the 2003 Michigan Supreme Court decision in Rakestraw v General Dynamics and statutory codification in Sections 301 and 401.
• 11:15 a.m.-noon Magistrate Roundtable and panel discussion on their application of Section 301 and 401 statutory codification post Rakestraw.—Magistrates Kevin Kales, David Williams, Bill Housefield, and David Grunewald.
To register for the in person or virtual meeting or for additional information, visit https://connect.michbar.org/workerscomp/home.
