Causation Determination in Workers’ Compensation (WC) and Toxic Tort Cases

Speaker: Joseph Abrams, DO, MPH
Resident, Occupational & Environmental Medicine Program
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Discussant: Jon T. O’Neal, MD, MPH, MFA, FACOEM
Lt.Col., USAF, SFS, Ret. Occupational Medicine Consultant Navy BUMED

Learning Objectives:

1) Describe the difference between legal and medical causation;

2) Describe the findings in recent Supreme Court decisions that define admissibility of expert witness testimony;

3) Explain why OEM doctors are well-equipped to make causation determinations in WC and Toxic Tort cases;

4) Explain what medical relative risk corresponds with a legal definition of ‘more likely than not.’

This event will be in person for anyone with an active Harvard appointment (student, staff, faculty).

For anyone interested in attending the Grand Rounds Seminar remotely

You will receive the zoom link after you register.