29th Annual Workplace Torts & Workers' Comp 

Registration includes seminar materials (in electronic format) and 6.0 CLE hours (inc. 1.0 ethics hour).

Please note you are registering to attend in person at the Friday Center located at 100 Friday Center Dr, Chapel Hill .

All NCIC Commissioners, Deputy Commissioners must pre-register for by completing the registration form and emailing the completed form to cle@ncaj.com. 

TOPICS & SPEAKERS

8:00 a.m. | Registration 

8:55 a.m. | Welcoming Remarks by Program Chairs  

• Stewart Poisson, Poisson Poisson & Bower, PLLC Wilmington 
• Vernon Sumwalt, The Sumwalt Group Workers' Compensation and Trial Lawyers, Charlotte

9:00 a.m. | Workers' Compensation Appellate Court Decisions Since November 2021

• Stewart Poisson, Poisson Poisson & Bower, PLLC Wilmington 
• Vernon Sumwalt, The Sumwalt Group Workers' Compensation and Trial Lawyers, Charlotte

10:15 a.m. |  Break  

10:30 a.m. | Workers' Compensation Appellate Panel 

• Neill Fuleihan, Brevard 
• Justice Robin Hudson, NC Supreme Court, Raleigh
• Honorable Valerie Zachary, NC Court of Appeals, Raleigh
• Mark Hullender, NCIC Deputy Commissioner, Raleigh
• Adrian Phillips, NCIC Commissioner, Raleigh 

11:15 a.m. | Panel Discussion: Pain and Psychological Treatment in Workers' Compensation Claims

• Kathleen Glancy, Moderator, Kathleen Shannon Glancy, PA, Wilmington
• Jeffrey B. Feldman, Ph.D, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem
• Griffin Pollock Sutton, PhD, Tidal Neuropsychology, PLLC, Hampstead
• David Zub, MD , EmergeOrtho Coastal Region, Leland

12:15 p.m. | Industrial Commission Update 

• Philip Baddour Chair, NCIC, Raleigh 

12:45 p.m. | Lunch (included)

1:45 p.m. | First Responders: Protecting the Protectors in WC Claims and Beyond

• Leah Broker, Law Office of Leah Broker, P.A., Asheville 
• Annemarie Pantazis, Wilder Pantazis Law Group, Charlotte 

2:15 p.m. | Belli Nuggets: Line of Duty Death Claims, Futility: All You Need to Know, Law Enforcement Officers and Firefighters

• Michael Bertics, Lennon, Camak & Bertics, PLLC, Raleigh 
• Sheila Chavis , Brent Adams Law Offices, PC, Raleigh 
• Annemarie Pantazis, Wilder Pantazis Law Group, Charlotte 

2:30 p.m. | Claims that Fall Outside of the Exclusive Remedy Doctrine 

• Noah Abrams,  Abrams & Abrams, P.A., Raleigh 

3:15 p.m. | Break 

3:30 p.m. | Survey of All the North Carolina State Bar Ethics Opinions involving Workers' Compensation Issues

• NIchole McLaughlin, NC State Bar 

4:30 p.m. | Adjourn 

SEMINAR MATERIALS

All of our seminar materials are PAPERLESS! Please be on the lookout for an email 72 hours prior to the seminar that includes the seminar materials to download and print.

This program has been approved for credit in the following jurisdiction(s):

North Carolina State Bar, Board of Continuing Legal Education

Credit has been approved with the North Carolina State Bar, Board of Continuing Legal Education for 1.00 Ethics credit and 5.00 General credits.

UNC - Chapel Hill Friday Center

100 Friday Center 

Chapel Hill , NC 

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Materials available with registration:

Cancellations received one week prior to the seminar date are refunded less a $35 service charge. Refunds cannot be given after this date. Substitutions are welcomed and may be made until the date of the seminar. For registrants who wish to transfer their registration to another NCAJ seminar, transfer requests received by 12:00 noon the third working day prior to the seminar are subject to a $50 transfer fee. Transfer requests received after this time are subject to a $110 transfer fee. Registrations may be transferred once and only to (one day) seminars scheduled through June 30, 2023.