PREVENTING AND DEFENDING LONG TERM CARE LITIGATION

Gain the competitive advantage in increasingly high-stakes and complicated long term care litigation at the only long term care defense conference that brings you a supreme in-house presence on the faculty, the top defense firms, and renowned federal and state jurists from around the country…

The exorbitant verdicts against long term care providers keep coming… $677 million awarded in California… $193 million in Pennsylvania…$90 million in West Virginia… In this minefield of emotional hot-button issues, more and more juries have been sending a message to industry with staggering punitive damage awards. At American Conference Institute’s 2nd Edition of its acclaimed Long Term Care Litigation conference, an experienced faculty of renowned litigators and judges will guide you through every stage of a long term care case to help you limit exposure and to mount a rigorous and complete defense to combat unprecedented theories of liability. The conference culminates with esteemed plaintiffs’ and defense counsel going head-to-head and putting the advanced trial strategies shared over the course of the conference to the test in front of a federal judge and mock jury in the new Post-Conference Mock Jury Focus Group: Trial Skills and Jury Communication Drill Down.

$1270 per bed, per year.* This is what a leading industry report estimates claims against a nursing home for malpractice will cost on average. With over 1.5 million Americans currently living in a nursing home as of 2010, the amount of potential liability is staggering. Faced with increasingly aggressive tactics from the plaintiffs’ bar and amplified scrutiny by the public and the government, there is simply no room for error. Defense lawyers and corporate counsel must have measures in place to demonstrate compliance and avoid costly litigation in the fi rst place in order to mount a complete and formidable defense in this high-stakes arena if forced to do so.

Learn how to craft the most effective theories and defenses from over fi fteen in-house counsel responsible for handling long term care cases on behalf of the country’s top facilities and a panel of leading judges.

At this in-depth strategy session on the nuances of long term care litigation, attendees will gain the tools to execute a bulletproof defense based on the expertise of top judges and in-house experts from Brookdale Senior Living, Evergreen Healthcare, Extendicare, HCR ManorCare, Signature HealthCare and many more. This is the leading defense forum designed for both networking and sharing sophisticated strategies to turn a long term care case in your favor and combat an aggressive plaintiffs’ bar looking for the next big payday. As class action suits premised on regulatory violations and end-runs around the corporate liability doctrine become increasingly common, don’t miss the Pre-Conference Boot Camp: Regulatory Fundamentals for Long Term Care Litigators, designed to give you expert insight into the dense thicket of regulations governing nursing homes that might be the basis for the next hundred million dollar law suit.

In the increasingly costly and ruthless battle of long term care litigation, not a moment can be lost. Don’t delay - register now by calling 1-888-224-2480, faxing your registration form to 877-927-1563, or logging onto to www.AmericanConference.com/LTCLitigation.

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