2021 Annual Workers’ Compensation Institute

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8:30 – 9:20 a.m. | DIVISION UPDATE

Colleen Joern Vetter, Division Director, Missouri Division of Workers’ Compensation, Jefferson City, and Harsh Bhasin, Project Director, Missouri Division of Workers’ Compensation, are the speakers.

This presentation will feature an update on Division Business Operations as well as an update on the Modernization Program.

9:20 – 10:10 AM | SO YOU FAILED? SHOULD YOU FILE AN APPEAL? PRACTICE IN FRONT OF THE LABOR COMMISSION AND THE COURTS

Patrick J. Platter, Neale & Newman LLP, Springfield, is the speaker.

This curriculum addresses the appeals that are required when parties lose in the Division. Appeals to the Labor Commission and appellate courts serve distinct goals and follow different procedures. Both are covered in this curriculum, with topics spanning from pre-appeal review to final briefing and oral argument.

10:10 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. | BREAK

10:20 – 11:10 AM | WORKPLACE DISEASES INCLUDING COVID

TBA for the speaker

LUNCH | 11:10 AM – 12:30 PM

12:30 – 2:10 PM | UPDATE ON CASE LAW

Michael F. Banahan of Evans & Dixon, LLC in St. Louis; B. Michael Korte of The Korte Law Firm in Webster Groves; and Cara L. Harris of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office in Springfield will speak.

| BREAK | 2:10 – 2:20 PM

2:20 – 3:10 PM | UP IN THE (SMOKE FILLED) AIR… THE UNCERTAINTY OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA’S IMPACT ON MO WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

Matthew W. Murphy, Vessell Bridges Murphy Law Offices, Columbia, is the speaker.

This lecture will cover Missouri Medical Marijuana Law, Amendment XIV of the Missouri Constitution, and recent modifications to the drug punishment sections of Chapter 287. (Section 287.120.6 RSMo.) MO amended many Chapter 287 requirements on August 28, 2017. One of the most significant adjustments was the implementation of the drug penalty clauses to include a presumption of punishment upon a positive drug screen. The next year, Missouri voters adopted an amendment to the Missouri Constitution that made medicinal marijuana cultivation, possession, and consumption lawful. This talk will go into the two sections and flesh out how the two bodies of legislation interact.

3:10 – 4:00 PM | BIAS ELIMINATION

Dr. Alisa Warren, Executive Director of the Missouri Commission on Human Rights in Jefferson City, will speak.

Michael Banahan has handled Workers’ Compensation cases in the school, government, and manufacturing sectors. Assaults, violent actions, back injuries, deaths, head injuries, heart attacks, infectious infections, musculoskeletal disorders, neck injuries, paraplegia/quadriplegia, permanent disability, pulmonary problems, and respiratory ailments are among his case experiences.

Mr. Banahan belongs to the Missouri Bar, the Illinois Bar Association, the Metropolitan St. Louis Bar Association, the Missouri Bar Workers’ Compensation Committee, and the Missouri Organization of Defense Lawyers. Mr. Banahan is a member of Evans & Dixon’s Management Committee. Furthermore, he has given several lectures on Missouri Workers’ Compensation and employer rights.

Bhasin, Harsh

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Harshdeep (Harsh) Bhasin joined the Workers’ Compensation modernisation program in October 2019 as a Project Director. Mr. Bhasin has more than 13 years of IT expertise, eight of which have been spent managing various big and complicated state government projects. Harsh has offered Program/Project Management and Project Delivery services to numerous Missouri agencies, the Green Mountain Care Board (GMCB) of Vermont, and the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services. He is passionate about process improvement, technology innovation culture, and how the government can better serve its residents.

Mr. Bhasin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Technology from Minnesota State University. He subsequently attended Pennsylvania State University for his Master’s degree in Software Engineering. Mr. Bhasin is a Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Project Manager (Agile Practitioner.) Harsh is a strong supporter of STEM education and serves on the Science, Engineering, and Technology Department Advisory Boards at local and national colleges to help influence future education curricula for workforce development.

Harsh has lived in Jefferson City for the past nine years. When he is not working, he spends time with his wife and kid, as well as reading financial and technical books/magazines.

Cara Harris is an actress.

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Attorney General’s Office of Missouri

Cara Harris went to Mizzou. Cara clerked in the Missouri Court of Appeals after graduation. In March 1993, she joined the Attorney General’s Office, where she has since defended the Second Injury Fund and the State in workers’ compensation cases. She is now the Labor Division’s Chief Counsel.

Platter, Patrick

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Neale & Newman LLP is a law firm in London.

Patrick J. Platter is a partner in Springfield, Missouri-based legal firm Neale & Newman, L.L.P. He holds undergraduate and legal degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia. He focuses on workers’ compensation law, municipal law, administrative law, and employment law. He has tried hundreds of workers’ compensation claims and appeals before the Labor and Industrial Relations Commission and appellate courts. His workers’ compensation appeals have covered a wide variety of topics under The Workers’ Compensation Law. Mr. Platter is a Rule 17 qualified mediator. He is on the Missouri Bar Fee Dispute Resolution Committee. He has been featured in the Missouri Bar Journal and talks to various professional and trade organizations about workers’ compensation and employment law. He is included in Super Lawyers® for workers’ compensation law and The Best Lawyers in America for municipal law.

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Korte Law Offices

Michael Korte has been elected as a Fellow of the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers. Workers’ Compensation Law and Practice, Volume 29 of West Publishing Company’s Missouri Practice series, and its addition, Volume 29A, both written by him.

He has received the Workers’ Compensation Distinguished Lawyer Award from BAMSL and Kids’ Chance, the Outstanding Service Award for his service as a former president of the Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, and he has been named one of the top 100 workers’ compensation attorneys in America by a national workers’ compensation bar association.

He formerly wrote science fiction reviews for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and pitched a no-hitter in Lawyers’ League slow pitch softball.

Murphy, Matthew

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Matthew is a two-time University of Missouri graduate, first with a degree in civil engineering and then with his JD in 1998. He has been active in the Missouri workers’ compensation system his whole legal career. He defended wounded clients for almost 10 years. Following that, Matthew worked as General Counsel for Missouri’s Department of Labor and Industrial Relations until becoming a workers’ compensation Administrative Law Judge in 2008. Matthew has been a founding partner at Vessell Bridges Murphy Law Offices since 2011, where he represents businesses and insurance carriers before the Division of Workers’ Compensation. They have offices in Columbia, Missouri, as well as Springfield, Missouri.

Vetter, Colleen

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Colleen Joern Vetter is in her fourth year as Director of Workers’ Compensation. Her J.D. is from the St. Louis University School of Law, and her B.A. is from Webster University.

Colleen worked as a legal clerk for the Honorable John C. Holstein of the Missouri Supreme Court after graduating from law school. She worked in private practice for many years, representing insurers, employers, and claimants before Missouri’s Division of Workers’ Compensation. Colleen worked as an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Litigation Division before joining the DWC.

Warren, Alisa

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Missouri Human Rights Commission

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