Tuesday 24 April 2012
Wednesday 25 April 2012
Thursday 26 April 2012
9.00 – 9.30 Welcome
Bernie Rowe, Lyons Davidson, England
09.30 – 10.00 History and introduction; can we define whiplash? What is whiplash?
Professor Gordon Bannister, England
10.00 – 10.30 How does injury occur? Forces on the car and forces on the neck
Matthew Avery, Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre (Thatcham), England
10.30 – 11.00 What can be injured?
Professor Michael Adams, University of Bristol, England
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.00 Why do we compensate? Does it do any good?
Professor Richard Lewis, Cardiff Law School, Wales
12.00 – 12.30 Do insurers want to ‘ban’ whiplash claims?
James Dalton, Association of British Insurers, England
12.30 – 13.00 Measuring injury: is it possible?
Assistant Professor James Elliott, Northwestern University, USA
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.45 Measuring pain: is it possible?
Professor Tony Dickenson, UCL, England
14.45 – 15.15 The influence of crash characteristics on injury severity
David Aylor, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, USA
15.15 – 15.45 Tea
15.45 – 16.15 Understanding the limitations of crash data
Gunter Siegmund, MEA Forensics, Canada
16.15 – 17.00 Is there a threshold below which injury cannot occur?
Professor Hermann Steffan, TU-Graz, Austria
17.00 – 17.30 Whither the controversy?
Arthur Croft, Spinal Research Institute of San Diego, USA
17.30 – 17.45 Questions and close
9.15 – 9.30 Introduction
Matthew Avery, Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre, England
09.30 – 10.00 The ‘average person’: allowing for occupant characteristics and injury vulnerability: the average person vs the claimant + injury vulnerability
Arthur Croft, Spinal Research Institute of San Diego, USA
10.00 – 10.30 Use of ‘black box’ data in assessing likelihood of injury
Bettina Zahnd-Sinzig, AXA-Winterthur, Switzerland
10.30 – 11.00 Use of ‘black box’ data in assessing claims
Mike Brockman, insurethebox, England
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 12.00 Using biomechanical analysis to determine injury causation
Professor Michael Freeman, Oregon Health Sciences University School of Medicine, USA
12.00 – 13.00 An end to whiplash: engineering our way out of the problem (including demo of AEB)
Andrew Miller, Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre, England
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 The German legal model
Oskar Riedmeyer, Dr Eick & Partner, Germany
14.30 – 15.00 Tort Law Reform in the USA: the American patchwork quilt
Alex Gelman, USA
15.00 – 15.30 The impact of the MOJ portal on whiplash claims: LD outcomes
Peter Revell, Lyons Davidson, England
15.30 -16.00 Tea
16.00 – 16.45 Will a change in our legal system reduce the incidence of whiplash or just whiplash claims?
Rt Hon Jack Straw MP, England
16.45 – 17.15 Questions and close
9.15 – 9.30 Introduction
Professor Michele Sterling, University of Queensland, Australia
09.30 – 10.00 Predicting outcome: who gets better?
Professor Michele Sterling, University of Queensland, Australia
10.00 – 10.30 Acute to chronic: what drives pain?
Professor Beth Winkelstein, University of Pennsylvania, USA
10.30 – 11.00 Is cervical instability and kyphosis an often-missed diagnosis in whiplash?
Dr Evan Katz, USA
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee
11.30 – 11.50 Improving outcome by early intervention
Morag Heighway, BICMA, UK
11.50-12.20 ICON (International Collaboration on Neck): securing an evidence-based treatment for neck pain
Anita Gross, Canada
12.20 – 13.00 Expectations and other psychological factors: their effects on outcome
Professor Linda Carroll, University of Alberta, Canada
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Do we compensate pain or injury?
Nigel Partridge, Lyons Davidson, England
14.30 – 15.30 The social cost of compensating the wrong people or not compensating the right people
Dr Andrew Auty, Re: Liability, England
15.30 -16.00 Tea
16.00 – 17.15 How do we ensure that the right people are compensated? Panel discussion
Don Clarke—FOIL; Donna Scully – MASS, Professor Michael Freeman; Morag Heighway – BICMA; Dr Andrew Auty; Andrew Miller – Thatcham
Chair:Bernie Rowe – Lyons Davidson
17.15 – 17.30 Closing comments by chair
17.30 – 18.30 Drinks reception hosted by TICCS: The Injury Care Clinics