Advanced Personal Injury Mediation

    Mediation practitioners, people from non-legal backgrounds and generalist lawyers will benefit from this focused examination of the current personal injury law as it plays out in the mediation room. The mediator handling and the case law concerning loss of opportunity, past and future income loss, care costs, causation, costs and liability disputes will be reviewed and applied in the context of mediating slip and fall injuries, medical negligence claims, and motor vehicle cases. The roles and typical interests of the participants and organizations commonly at the table, will be studied and mediation techniques applied. This course will be of interest to anyone mediating or negotiating in this area or planning to do so.