Personal Injury & Negligence

4.73

Pain and Suffering Damages in Personal Injury: Plaintiff and Defense Tactics

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Arkansas CLE Approved 6 Total
California CLE Approved 6 Total
Colorado CLE Approved 7 Total
Connecticut CLE Approved 6 Total
Delaware CLE Approved 6 Total
Florida CLE Approved 7 Total
Georgia CLE Approved 6 Total
Hawaii CLE Approved 6 Total
Iowa CLE Approved 6 Total
Idaho CLE Approved 6 Total
Illinois CLE Approved 6 Total
Indiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Kansas CLE Approved 7 Total
Kentucky CLE Approved 6 Total
Louisiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
Minnesota CLE Approved 6 Total
Missouri CLE Approved 6 Total
Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 6 Total
Mississippi CLE Approved 6 Total
Montana CLE Approved 6 Total
North Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
North Dakota CLE Approved 6 Total
Nebraska CLE Approved 6 Total
New Hampshire CLE Approved 6 Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
New Mexico CLE Approved 6 Total
Nevada CLE Approved 6 Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Ohio CLE Approved 6 Total
Oklahoma CLE Approved 7 Total
Oregon CLE Approved 6 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
Rhode Island CLE Upon Request 6 Total
South Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
Tennessee CLE Approved 6 Total
Texas CLE Approved 6 Total
Utah CLE Approved 6 Total
Virginia CLE Approved 6 Total
Vermont CLE Approved 6 Total
Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
Wisconsin CLE Approved 7 Total
West Virginia CLE Approved 7.2 Total
Wyoming CLE Approved 6 Total
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5 hours 48 minutes
Jennifer El-Kadi
Kevin Knight
Michael Needleman
David Cooper
With Jennifer J. El-Kadi from JEK Law, LLC + 3 others
Recorded March 18, 2026.
Product ID 101670

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Overview

Veteran Pointers for Calculating, Negotiating, and Litigating Pain and Suffering Damages

Proving or disproving pain and suffering is never easy - but there are strategies you can employ to control the end recovery. This program will cut to the chase and show you how seasoned plaintiff's and defense attorneys calculate, negotiate, and litigate pain and suffering damages. Learn techniques for deposing doctors, cleverly using medical records, presenting your case at trial, and much more - register today!

  • Enhance your litigation strategy with doctor insights on pain, suffering, and causation.
  • Learn how insurance companies evaluate demands and determine settlement offers.
  • Gain tips for putting a dollar amount on pain and suffering.
  • Make your doctor depositions more fruitful with creative pointers and questioning techniques.
  • Guide the jury towards a plaintiff's verdict with powerful trial tactics.
  • Uncover effective defense techniques for controlling damages and preventing runaway verdicts.

Abbreviated Agenda

  1. Doctor Insights on Pain, Suffering and Causation
  2. Creatively Using Doctors and Medical Records
  3. An Inside Look: How Insurance Companies Evaluate Pain and Suffering Damages
  4. Strategies for Quantifying and Negotiating Pain and Suffering Damages
  5. Techniques for Proving Conscious Pain and Suffering
  6. Plaintiffs' Trial Tactics: Maximizing Pain and Suffering Damages
  7. Defense Power Tips for Minimizing Pain and Suffering Damages
  8. Defense Power Tips for Minimizing Pain and Suffering Damages - Continued
  9. Legal Ethics

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Product ID 101670

Credit Details

Credits Available
Credit Status Total
Alaska CLE Reciprocity 6 Total
Alabama CLE Approved 6 Total
Arkansas CLE Approved 6 Total
California CLE Approved 6 Total
Colorado CLE Approved 7 Total
Connecticut CLE Approved 6 Total
Delaware CLE Approved 6 Total
Florida CLE Approved 7 Total
Georgia CLE Approved 6 Total
Hawaii CLE Approved 6 Total
Iowa CLE Approved 6 Total
Idaho CLE Approved 6 Total
Illinois CLE Approved 6 Total
Indiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Kansas CLE Approved 7 Total
Kentucky CLE Approved 6 Total
Louisiana CLE Approved 6 Total
Maine CLE Approved 6 Total
Minnesota CLE Approved 6 Total
Missouri CLE Approved 6 Total
Northern Mariana Islands CLE Approved 6 Total
Mississippi CLE Approved 6 Total
Montana CLE Approved 6 Total
North Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
North Dakota CLE Approved 6 Total
Nebraska CLE Approved 6 Total
New Hampshire CLE Approved 6 Total
New Jersey CLE Approved 7.2 Total
New Mexico CLE Approved 6 Total
Nevada CLE Approved 6 Total
New York CLE Approved 7 Total
Ohio CLE Approved 6 Total
Oklahoma CLE Approved 7 Total
Oregon CLE Approved 6 Total
Pennsylvania CLE Approved 6 Total
Rhode Island CLE Upon Request 6 Total
South Carolina CLE Approved 6 Total
Tennessee CLE Approved 6 Total
Texas CLE Approved 6 Total
Utah CLE Approved 6 Total
Virginia CLE Approved 6 Total
Vermont CLE Approved 6 Total
Washington CLE Approved 6 Total
Wisconsin CLE Approved 7 Total
West Virginia CLE Approved 7.2 Total
Wyoming CLE Approved 6 Total
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Agenda

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  1. Doctor Insights on Pain, Suffering and Causation

    1. Interplay of Physical and Mental Pain and Suffering
    2. Measuring Pain: Objective vs. Subjective Diagnosis and Testing
    3. Acute Pain vs. Chronic Pain
    4. Pain Over Time
    5. Cause of Pain: Injury, Aging, or Prior/Subsequent Conditions?
    6. How Pain Can Exacerbate or Trigger Other Conditions
    7. Indicators of Exaggeration or Malingering
    8. Medical Records, Notes, and Medication Records - Practical Tips for Attorneys

  2. Creatively Using Doctors and Medical Records

    1. Getting the Most Out of Emergency Room and Scene of Accident Evidence
    2. A Strategic Look at Medical Records and Reports
    3. Tactical Tips for Addressing Pre-Existing Conditions
    4. Veteran Insights on Using Medical Experts
    5. Doctor Deposition Pointers and Questioning Techniques
    6. Techniques for Attacking the Opposing Party's Medical Expert
    7. Substantiating Psychological Impacts and PTSD
    8. Deposing Mental Health Experts - Powerful Questions

  3. An Inside Look: How Insurance Companies Evaluate Pain and Suffering Damages

  4. Strategies for Quantifying and Negotiating Pain and Suffering Damages

    1. Calculating Pain and Suffering Damages Quickly and Accurately
    2. Tips for Quantifying Future Pain and Suffering
    3. Overcoming Colossus
    4. Tricks to Finding Policy Limits and Increasing Reserves
    5. Powerful Pointers for Demand Packages
    6. Creative Techniques for Negotiating With Insurance Adjusters
    7. Calculating and Ensuring Maximum Recovery of Lost Earning Capacity
    8. Negotiating Down Medical Bills and Liens

  5. Techniques for Proving Conscious Pain and Suffering

  6. Plaintiffs' Trial Tactics: Maximizing Pain and Suffering Damages

    1. Getting Your Evidence Admitted (and Keeping Theirs Out)
    2. Picking the Best Jury
      1. Strategically Introducing Case Information
      2. Eliminating Unfavorable Jurors
    3. Conditioning the Jury to Award Significant Damages From the Start
    4. Strategically Working Up the Medical Issues
    5. Creatively Using Exhibits and Other Demonstrative Aids
    6. Photograph and Personal Journal Evidence Strategies
    7. Maximizing Witness Testimony: Family, Neighbors, Friends, and Coworkers
    8. Tactically Addressing Pre-Existing Injuries and Other Case Weaknesses
    9. Keys to Powerful Closing Arguments

  7. Defense Power Tips for Minimizing Pain and Suffering Damages

    1. Creating Effective Discovery - Work, School, and Activities
    2. Social Media Strategies
    3. Leveraging Defense Doctors and Medical Reports
    4. Plaintiff Deposition Tactics: Eliciting Concessions and Inconsistencies
    5. Evidence Admission and Exclusion Strategies
    6. Forming Powerful Arguments
    7. Jury Selection - Asking the Right Questions and Conditioning Jurors
    8. Keys to Effective Opening Statements
    9. Counteracting Sympathy Ploys and Graphic Displays at Trial
    10. The Secrets to Winning Closing Arguments

  8. Defense Power Tips for Minimizing Pain and Suffering Damages - Continued

  9. Legal Ethics

    1. Avoiding Conflicts
    2. Attorney's Fees
    3. Managing Client Expectations
    4. Preserving Confidentiality and Privilege
    5. Ethics of Litigation

Who Should Attend

This program is designed for attorneys. Insurance professionals and paralegals may also benefit.

Speakers

Jennifer J El-Kadi
Jennifer J.
El-Kadi
JEK Law, LLC
Kevin T Knight
Kevin T.
Knight
DSK Law
Michael J Needleman
Michael J.
Needleman
Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP
Dr. David Cooper
Dr. David
Cooper
The Knee Center
Speaker bio
Jennifer J El-Kadi

Jennifer J. El-Kadi

JEK Law, LLC
Jennifer El-Kadi

is a litigation attorney and founder of JEK Law, where she advocates for survivors of sex abuse and human trafficking, as well as individuals injured in motor vehicle accidents. Her practice is rooted in the belief that those who have been silenced or harmed deserve fierce, trauma-informed legal representation-and she brings both compassion and precision to every case she handles. Ms. El-Kadi has built her career fighting for plaintiffs who cannot fight for themselves. She previously served as Partner and Chief Operating Officer at Babin Law, where she led the firm's Human Trafficking Department and helped file the first civil TVPRA lawsuit in the country. Under her leadership, the docket expanded from 100 to more than 2,100 active cases. She helped coordinate national litigation strategy across jurisdictions after the denial of MDL centralization, spearheading complex multi-defendant actions against corporate enablers and contributing to early case law development under the TVPRA and CAVRA. In addition to her leadership in sex abuse litigation, Ms. El-Kadi provides high-quality co-counsel support to firms nationwide-stepping in on an overflow or project basis to draft complaints, discovery, and motions, and guide litigation strategy in high-stakes cases. Her background spans personal injury, mass torts, and trauma-informed justice alternatives. As COO at Babin Law, she scaled national dockets involving Uber, Lyft, NEC, Hernia Mesh, CPAP, Hair Relaxer, and Valsartan, optimizing intake workflows and CRM systems. She also clerked under Judge Zottola in Pennsylvania's Veterans Court, where she supported diversion programs for justice-involved veterans facing service-related trauma.

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Kevin T Knight

Kevin T. Knight

DSK Law
Kevin Knight

is a partner in the law offices of DSK Law. He is board-certified as a trial lawyer by both The Florida Bar and the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Over the course of his practice, Mr. Knight has generally focused on personal injury litigation. He earned his B.S.B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Central Florida and his J.D. degree from Stetson University College of Law. 

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Michael J Needleman

Michael J. Needleman

Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP
Michael Needleman

is a partner in the Philadelphia Office of Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP. He is a member of the Litigation, Insurance, Employment Practices, and Corporate & Business Services groups. Mr. Needleman has extensive experience handling insurance defense, insurance coverage, employment litigation, and complex commercial litigation matters, including litigating franchise dispute matters. He practices in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,  New Jersey and District of Columbia, and has extensive trial experience. Mr. Needleman is a member of the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and is occasionally appointed by the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania to assist in civil rights cases. He earned his B.A. degree from American University and his J.D. degree from Widener University School of Law.

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Dr. David Cooper

Dr. David Cooper

The Knee Center
David Cooper

owns and operates The Knee Center in Plains, Pennsylvania, centrally located in the Pocono Mountain area, 90 miles west of New York City and 90 north of Philadelphia. He is the author of "Cooper's Sign," first published on Wikipedia in 2008, indicating that a history of knee pain turning over in bed is a 90% indicator of meniscal pathology as opposed to arthritis. He is a graduate of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia and the Jefferson Orthopedic residency. Dr. Cooper entered private practice as a general orthopedic surgeon in Lansdale, Pennsylvania after serving our country for eight years as a U.S. Navy Reserve medical officer. In 1980, he was recruited by Geisinger to open the orthopedic department at Geisinger Wyoming Valley Hospital in Wilkes-Barre, where he was among the first orthopedic surgeons in the valley to introduce knee replacements and arthroscopic surgery. In 1981, Dr. Cooper opened The Knee Center in Wilkes-Barre to further specialize in the care and treatment of knee and lower extremity disorders. He has personally performed more than 6,000 arthroscopic surgeries, ligament repairs, and knee replacements. Dr. Cooper is board-certified for life by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery, the highest honor that any medical specialist practicing in the U.S. can obtain. As a sought-after speaker for many national organizations, he has addressed the American Bar Association national conferences and the Risk Insurance Management Society national meetings in New Orleans and Atlanta. He has also been interviewed by Bob Costas on nationwide radio and published in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Dr. Cooper is an adjunct professor at Binghamton University and King's University. He is also a guest lecturer at Binghamton University, King's University, and the University of Scranton. Dr. Cooper has been a private pilot for over 30 years and enjoys flying his turbine Bonanza to conferences and lectures.

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