Straight Practical Skills: A Workers’ Compensation Seminar
Date: Aug 19, 2025 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Location: Location Coming Soon, and Online
Areas of Law:
Earn up to 7.9 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
Presenters
- Hon. Maria Del Valle-Koch, Director and Chief Judge, New Jersey Division of Workers Compensation
- Director and Chief Judge of the Division of Workers’ Compensation
New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development - Victor Broccoli, Esq.
- Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq, New Brunswickpractices with Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He has primarily focused on the rights of injured workers and injuries from automobile accidents, and assists employees injured on the job with obtaining medical treatment and financial benefits.
Mr. Broccoli is admitted to practice in New Jersey and North Carolina. He is a member of the New Jersey Advisory Council on Safety and Health.
Mr. Broccoli received his undergraduate degree from Boston College, where he was the recipient of the John D. Donovan Sociology Prize, and his J.D. from Tulane University Law School, where he received an award for Outstanding Trial Advocacy and was a member of The Sports Lawyers Journal.
(9/23) - Michael Tomasino, Esq.
- Garces, Grabler & LeBrocq, Colonia
This full-day program is designed for practitioners who are actively engaged in the evolving field of workers’ compensation. Focusing on practical skills and real-world challenges, the seminar features both legal and medical experts - creating a dynamic and highly applicable learning experience.
Program Agenda:
- 9:00 | Announcements
- 9:05 | Keynote address - Hon. Maria Del Valle-Koch
- 9:10 | Ethical dilemmas with artificial intelligence
- 10:10 | Understanding radiology
- 11:10 | Break
- 11:20 | Directing unauthorized medical treatment and the handling of derivative liens, bills, and letters of protection
- 12:20 | Lunch
- 1:00 | Modern techniques in neurosurgery
- 2:00 | A legislative and case law update
- 3:00 | Break
- 3:10 | Addressing issues which arise when a claimant possesses both a workers’ compensation and a third-party claim
- 4:10 | Both a petitioner’s attorney and a respondent’s attorney taking the testimony of a shoulder or knee surgeon in a claim where the issue is whether the pathology is degenerative or an aggravation of pre-existing pathology.
- 5:00 | Adjourn
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