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Adler Giersch

Insurance Workshop for Healthcare Professionals

Thursday, October 30, 2025 in Bellevue, WA. 6 CE Credits.
Led by Award-Winning attorneys, Richard Adler, Steven Angles, Melissa Carter, Arthur Leritz, and Elisabeth Ruff.
This workshop provides up-to-date information and solutions on effectively managing your personal injury cases, the process, auto insurers, and attorneys.
Would you like to:
  • Understand the big picture and unwritten rules of insurance and personal injury law?
  • Create greater efficiencies and effectiveness in billing, charting, and collecting?
  • Successfully problem solve billing and payment disputes with insurers, patients, and attorneys?
  • Decrease your accounts receivable and increase your accounts payable?
  • Effectively respond to insurers and attorneys trying to reduce or compromise your bill?

Book your spot if you are:

  • A healthcare provider interested in effectively and successfully handling traumatic injury claims
  • An individual who is responsible for patient billing, communication with insurers, attorneys, and patients
  • New and experienced staff members seeking the cutting edge tools to effectively manage personal injury claims
Questions? Contact Laura at Lobier@adlergiersch.com or call (206) 682-0300.
$95.00

Description

Workshop Topics

  • Insurance Coverage: Learn about all the motor vehicle insurance and policies available to satisfy your bills, including Personal Injury Protection (PIP), Liability, Uninsured, and Underinsured Motorist Coverage
  • Treatment Billing: Who to bill? When to bill? Who has to pay? When do they have to pay?
  • New Developments: Insurance law updates that impact your practice; understanding the “Insurance Fair Conduct Act” (IFCA)
  • Liens: Learn how to use them and how to handle insurers and attorneys that challenge them
  • Expert Witness Fees: Record requests, meetings, reports, prep time for testifying. How much? Who pays? When?
  • IME/ICE/Peer Reviews: How to effectively handle and respond to these “treatment killers”
  • Responding: To insurers, attorneys, and patients refusing to pay or trying to reduce your bills
  • Cutting Edge: Insurance claim practice
  • Documentation: Apportioning pre-existing condition and new trauma
  • Attorneys: Effective handling of difficult attorneys
  • The Latest Court Cases: How will they impact your patients and your practice? Including Schiff v. Liberty Mutual

Event Details

Date: October 30, 2025

Start time: 10:00 a.m. PDT

End time: 04:00 p.m. PDT

Venue: The Bellevue Club

Coordinates: 11200 SE 6th Street

Phone: 206.682.0300

Email: lobier@adlergiersch.com

Richard H. Adler, JD

Mr. Adler is the founding principal of Adler Giersch. Excellence in advocacy for his clients and protecting their access to treatment led to his selection as a SuperLawyer™ by his attorney peers. He’s a frequent lecturer and author of several publications on medical-legal-insurance matters.

Steven J. Anglés, JD

Steven Anglés’ practice focuses on cases involving severe injuries, insurance coverage, and complex personal injury claims. He has extensive courtroom experience, having tried over 35 jury trials and 100 bench trials in his career. Steven is bilingual, with fluency in Spanish. He works throughout the Puget Sound and manages Adler Giersch in Kent.

Melissa D. Carter, JD

Sensing an alarming imbalance of fairness between insurance companies and injured individuals, Ms. Carter resigned as Senior Trial Counsel for Nationwide Insurance and accepted a position at the firm she admired most, Adler Giersch. Since that time, she has been selected as a SuperLawyer by her attorney peers.

Arthur D. Leritz, JD

It was through his representation of at-fault defendants and insurance companies for over 11 years in a wide variety of complex personal injury litigation that Arthur Leritz realized his true calling was to join Adler Giersch to advocate and protect those with traumatic injuries.

Elisabeth K. Ruff, JD

Elisabeth K Ruff, a graduate of UW School of Law, joined Adler Giersch in 2022 after serving 5 years as a Prosecuting Attorney for Snohomish County. She is excited about the opportunity to help victims not only get compensation, but also access to the medical care they need to heal from their injuries.