MDJW First Friday Webinar - The Affordable Care Act – A Tool to Reduce Future Medical Claims?

Because April 3^rd is an MDJW holiday, the April presentation will be on April 10, 2015 at noon Central time.  Mark Dyer, managing partner of MDJW’s Dallas office will present “The Affordable Care Act – A Tool to Reduce Future Medical Claims?” 

This course provides an overview of how the Affordable Care Act may be applied to claims involving future medical expenses.  It will address the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act, will discuss the collateral source rule and how the Affordable Care Act may change the applicability of the collateral source rule to claims involving future medical expenses.  It will also address how the mandates, requirements and changes of the legislation directly impact settlements, damages, negotiation and trial strategies in personal injury litigation.

Mark Dyer is a board certified trial attorney who has significant experience in representing clients state wide in tort and commercial litigation disputes. His areas of expertise include products liability and personal injury defense, commercial “business tort” defense and construction defect litigation. Mark has been named to the Texas Super Lawyers list by Super Lawyers®, a Thomson Reuters business, as featured in Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers magazines, every year from 2003 to 2012 and is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. Mark’s community involvement gives him unique insight and experience for handling his client’s litigation matters. Mark served on the City of Irving’s Planning and Zoning Commission from 2002 to 2009. This experience has given Mark a great depth of knowledge in zoning and property development issues. Mark serves on the Board of Trustees for both the Baylor Medical Center of Irving and the Irving Hospital Authority and currently serves as Chairman of both boards since 2008. Recently, Mark served a year on the Baylor Health Care Systems Operating Board. These experiences have been of great benefit to Mark’s clients who are involved in healthcare and personal injury litigation matters.  See http://www.mdjwlaw.com/professionals-Mark-Dyer.html for more information on Mark Dyer.

We have applied to the Texas Department of Insurance for one hour of Texas CE credit and to the Texas State Bar for one hour of CLE credit.  We do not apply for CE or CLE in any other state.  However, we can provide a Certificate of Attendance for you to use in applying for credit with other agencies.  Please note that we do not guarantee that any other agency will accept the Certificate of Attendance. 

Register for this webinar at: https://attendee.gototraining.com/r/4927260514203503618.  You will have the option of supplying your Texas Department of Insurance license number and/or Texas State Bar number during the registration process if you will be requesting CE or CLE credit.  If you are not requesting credit, you do not need to complete those fields.  After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the training.  We have a limit of 200 participants for the webinar.  Registration will close 30 minutes before the presentation.

If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to ce@mdjwlaw.com or call Cynthia Glenney at 713-632-1737.