The regulatory landscape of the personal injury lawyer has become exceedingly complicated. Assisting clients with catastrophic disabilities now exposes you personally to government recovery actions, damages, and malpractice risks. It's vital that your personal injury practice has a comprehensive plan for compliance when resolving cases if you want to protect yourself-and protect your clients. In The Art of Settlement, Jason Lazarus helps you navigate the complexities at settlement for catastrophic claims and provides you with the best course of action for each potential issue. As a nationally recognized settlement compliance expert, Jason shows you how to address important ethical issues, navigate settlement planning concerns, preserve government benefits, and employ lien reduction strategies. You'll gain insightful, essential perspective on how to deal with Medicare compliance, fight ERISA liens, and leverage qualified settlement funds. In today's complex and nuanced environment, every PI lawyer can benefit from the principles laid out in this book. This is a trial lawyer's ultimate resource for the world of regulatory compliance with catastrophic claims-a guidebook you'll consult again and again.

This book provides a complete reference manual for all health professionals who perform emergency sexual assault exams. The contents will cover the protocols of the exam, as well as the legal and medical considerations of the exam, so that physical evidence will hold up in a court of law. Colposcopic and full-color photographs clearly illustrate physical injuries found in sexual assault victims. The author considers both the.

The US Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice (NIJ) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of The National Academies to conduct a workshop that would examine the interface of the medicolegal death investigation system and the criminal justice system. NIJ was particularly interested in a workshop in which speakers would highlight not only the status and needs of the medicolegal death investigation system as currently administered by medical examiners and coroners but also its potential to meet emerging issues facing contemporary society in America. Additionally, the workshop was to highlight priority areas for a potential IOM study on this topic. To achieve those goals, IOM constituted the Committee for the Workshop on the Medicolegal Death Investigation System, which developed a workshop that focused on the role of the medical examiner and coroner death investigation system and its promise for improving both the criminal justice system and the public health and health care systems, and their ability to respond to terrorist threats and events. Six panels were formed to highlight different aspects of the medicolegal death investigation system, including ways to improve it and expand it beyond its traditional response and meet growing demands and challenges. This report summarizes the Workshop presentations and discussions that followed them.