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AOHC 2025

OEM Related Law and Regulations

116 - Causation Determination in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Sunday, April 27, 2025
2:45 PM – 3:45 PM CT
Location: Lone Star Salon AB
Claim 1.0 CME
Causation Determination in Occupational Medicine presents information on the differences between medical and legal causation determination, reviews three legal cases relating to the admissability of expert witness testimony, and how to adequately select an expert witness in toxic tort and workers' compensation cases.

Learning Objectives:

  • List the main Supreme Court decision that set the bar for admissability of expert witness testimony.
  • Explain the difference between medical and legal causation determination.
  • List the generally accepted legal criteria for relative risk in causation to be admissible in an exposure case.
Disclosure(s):
Jon O'Neal, MD, MPH, FACOEM: No financial relationships to disclose