2025 Medical Liability and Health Care Seminar

March 17–19, 2025
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Improve Your Medical Liability Litigation Knowledge + Grow Your Network!

Save up to $700 when you register on or before January 31, 2025!
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Join us in Philadelphia to hear from vibrant speakers about medical topics such as neurology and pathology, as well as legal topics including witness preparation and the Medicare Secondary Payer Act. The program is designed to foster professional development and growth for the seasoned medical liability attorney and our budding associates. Each day of the seminar includes the opportunity to earn CLE and connect with attorneys from across the country.

What You Will Learn:

  • Compliance with the complexities of the Medicare Secondary Payor Act to ensure your client and carrier are protected.
  • Prime methods to ensure your client’s deposition testimony is truthful, complete, and consistent with your theory of defense.
  • Tips to avoid case-killing ethical pitfalls surrounding HIPAA and other privileges.
  • Processes to select and seat a jury who will listen to the medicine and the law and resist the suggestion to go nuclear.

Expand Your Network By:

  • Dining with DRI members, friends, and speakers from around the country.
  • Attending on-site and off-site networking events.
  • Enjoying one of the country’s most historic cities with friends and colleagues.
  • Embracing the benefits of your DRI membership. If you are not a member, join today!

Counsel Meetings with Major Companies
Take advantage of the opportunity to engage with key industry companies* including:

  • TBD

*Subject to change

Representatives from These Companies Will Be in Attendance
Engage with claims professionals who either hire or supervise outside counsel:

  • TBD

*Subject to change

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Thank You to DRI's Medical Liability and Health Care Committee Leadership

Joseph G. Mattson
Joseph G. Mattson
Program Chair
Justin A. Hardin
Justin A. Hardin
Program Vice Chair
Erika Amarante
Erika L. Amarante
Committee Chair
Andrew DeSimone
Andrew DeSimone
Committee Vice Chair
Jodi V. Terranova
Jodi V. Terranova
Law Institute

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Registration Information

Save up to $700 when you register on or before January 31, 2025!
Worry-free registration: Cancellations received thirty (30) days or more before an in-person seminar are entitled to a full refund.

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Member Pricing Non-Member Pricing Non-Member Bundle ^
Early Bird Registration*
(Now thru Jan. 31)
$1,395 $1,795 $1,715
Regular Registration*
(Feb. 1–Mar. 16)
$1,595 $1,995 $1,915
Onsite Registration* $1,695 $2,095 $2,015
Group Registration
(Non-Sponsored)
Group registration is for registering four or more attendees, members and non-members. There is one free registration with every 10 registrations. You must lock in the rate three weeks prior to the seminar.
If you want to register for the group pricing, fill out the form here. Please note that online registration is not available for this offering.
Government Government members will receive the applicable government rate for the seminar upon login. If the government rate does not appear after logging in, please call DRI directly at (312) 795-1101 to receive the discounted rate. Invoices can be sent after purchase upon request.

Not a DRI Member? Select the Non-Member Bundle and Save!

^ Not a DRI Member and new to DRI? Take advantage of the Non-Member / Trial Membership Bundle and receive up to 9 months of membership when you register for the seminar. You’ll be able to add this special offer to your cart at check out. Note: Trial membership processing can take up to 30 days from the date of purchase, please contact DRI Customer Service with any questions.

Learn more about membership at DRI and get started on your DRI journey today!

*If your membership recently lapsed, please renew your membership prior to registering to ensure you receive your discounted member rate. If you would like to join DRI to receive the member pricing and see the benefits of becoming a member, click here to go to the Application page.

Networking Events

Premier Networking Event at the XXXXX
Sponsored by: ABC

Date: Wednesday, Month Day from 7:00–10:00 p.m.
Pricing: Free when you register for the seminar (guest tickets $100 each, available at check-out)
Location: XXXXX, Address, City, State

TBD.

Hotel Information

The seminar will take place at Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, 1201 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
To contact the hotel directly, call 215.625.2900.

A limited number of discounted hotel rooms have been made available at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk. Take advantage of the group rate of $269.00 (plus taxes and fees) Single/Double.

Reserve your Room Online

The hotel block is limited, and rooms and rates are available on a first-come, first-served basis. You must make reservations by February 23, 2025, to be eligible for the hotel's group rate. Requests for reservations made after February 23 are subject to room and rate availability.

Full Agenda

*Schedule and Speakers subject to change

Monday, March 17, 2025

Time (Central) Session
12:00 p.m. Registration
3:00–5:00 p.m. Preparing Medical Providers for Their First Deposition—Strategies to Avoid Surprise

In this presentation, you will learn cutting-edge witness preparation techniques from a nationally known litigator with decades of experience defending and prosecuting eight figure cases. Attorney Gross’s techniques allow witnesses to develop the tools effectively to ensure their testimony furthers the overall goal of your defense.

Space is limited – 50 people max; $250 additional charge – indicate your RSVP when registering for the seminar.

Michael A. Gross, JD, CogentEdge/Magna Legal Services, St.Petersburg, FL
6:00 p.m. Networking / Cocktail Hour
7:30 p.m. Dine-Arounds

Join colleagues and friends at selected restaurants for dinner (on your own).

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Time (Central) Session
8:00 a.m. Women in the Law Coffee Meet Up
8:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee Service

Get to know the early risers in our group over a cup of coffee.
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions

Joseph G. Mattson, Devine Millimet Branch, Manchester, NH
9:15 a.m. Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance—Best Practices

Medicare liens are an unavoidable part of medical liability practice, and while they should be the plaintiffs’ responsibility to satisfy, the carrier has obligations and can remain exposed. Learn how to ensure you and your client don’t become responsible for the liens and other best practices for this thorny area of the law.

Barrye Panepinto Miyagi, Taylor, Porter, Brooks, & Phillips, Baton Rouge, LA
9:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
DRI Cares – Blessings in a Backpack

Click here for details on this DRI Cares session.
10:15 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. Provider-Patient Privilege and Beyond: Ethical Constraints in Defending Medical Liability Cases

Medical liability litigation challenges the providers and the attorneys involved as to the facts and the law. In this session, our speaker will explain how to avoid a third area of pitfalls—ethics.

Madeleine M. Pfefferle, Ellis & Winters LLP, Raleigh, NC
11:30 a.m. Jury Selection and Voir Dire in the Nuclear Age

Verdict size continues to grow; in this session, learn how to anchor the jury around reasonable, non-nuclear numbers from the start of the trial process, even before a witness is called.

Whitney L. Burkett, HeplerBroom LLC, Chicago, IL
Melissa Loberg, Loberg Consulting, Tampa, FL
Elizabeth Walker, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty, New York, NY
12:30 p.m. DRI Networking Lunch
2:15 p.m. Forensic Radiology—Using Radiology in Non-Radiology Cases

Sometimes imaging holds the key to successfully defending a case—even when your client isn’t a radiologist. In this presentation, learn how unexpected imaging findings already in your record can aid the defense of non-radiology cases.

Dr. David L. Smith, LSU Health & University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
3:15 p.m. Medical Liability Committee Business Meeting (open to all)
4:00 p.m. Adjourn
4:00 p.m. Small Group Networking Events
6:00 p.m. Premier Networking Reception

Join fellow seminar attendees at our Premier Networking Reception. More details to come.

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Time (Central) Session
8:30 a.m. Registration & Coffee Service
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Announcement

Joseph G. Mattson, Devine Millimet Branch, Manchester, NH
Justin A. Hardin, Brown & James PC, Saint Louis, MO
9:10 a.m. Neurological Injury from the Neurointerventionalist’s Chair

Difficult to diagnose neurological injury cases can be difficult to defend because the liability and causation issues cut across multiple disciplines. In this lecture, attendees will learn the best way to navigate this complex area of medicine.

Nasser Razack, MD, JD, Neurointerventional Associates, PA, St. Petersburg, FL
10:10 a.m. Coffee Break
10:25 a.m. Her Honor: Strengths and Strategies for Women in Law

A discussion with The Honorable Carrie E. Hyams, Court of Common Pleas, Cumberland County, PA who, prior to taking the bench, was a medical malpractice defense attorney.

Honorable Carrie E. Hyams, Court of Common Pleas, Cumberland County, PA
Andrea Merolla-Simister, Gidley, Sarli & Marusak, Providence, RI
11:25 a.m. Artificial Intelligence and Its Use in Pathology

Artificial intelligence continues to infiltrate all areas of life, including medicine. In this discussion, learn how providers can improve patient outcomes with AI-powered technology and other players in the biotech space.

Eric Walk, MD, CMO, PathAI, Boston, MA
12:25 p.m. Adjourn

CLE Information

Earn up to TBD hours of continuing legal education hours (CLE) from this seminar.

View CLE Credit by State

In some states that charge late CLE submission fees, there will be a $100 late fee to report CLE credits submitted more than 30 days after a seminar/virtual event. Click here for details on CLE late fees.

Thank You to Our Sponsors

DRI's Medical Liability and Health Care Seminar is proudly supported by:

Dorris and Associates International

If you would like to contact DRI about seminar sponsorship opportunities (including pricing) or to reserve a spot, please visit the sponsorship page.

DRI Cares

Blessings in a Backpack

Blessings in a Backpack Who Will Feed the Kids this Weekend?

Please join us in supporting Blessings in a Backpack, an organization that mobilizes communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for school-aged children across America who might otherwise go hungry. Seminar attendees will have the opportunity to fill bags of food on Tuesday morning. Feeding a child before you feed yourself is a wonderful way to support children and families in the Philadelphia community.

Donate to Blessings in a Backpack

Additional Resources

If you have any questions or concerns regarding DRI programs, please contact DRI Customer Service at 312.795.1101 or custservice@dri.org.