LARIMS | Los Angeles Risk Insurance Management Society

Event Registration

"Determining Injury Causation: Biomechanics for the Risk Manager"

When

Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Program Time:11:30 A.M.
Adjourn Time:1:30 P.M.

Cost

Registered and paid in advance:	$49
At the door registration:	$65

Venue

Beverly Garland Holiday Inn
4222 Vineland Ave.
North Hollywood, CA 91602

Guest Speaker(s):
Bradley W. Probst, M.S.B.M.E., Senior Biomechanist - ARCCA, Incorporated

Event Details:
Lunch will be a Buffet.

An accident happens. Injuries are claimed. But did this accident cause these injuries? The answer to that question can have a significant impact on resolution of claims.

This PowerPoint seminar with embedded videos describes the step-by-step methods used by biomechanical engineers to assess injury causation. Based on a combination of structural mechanics and anatomy, the biomechanical engineer describes the body motions of the claimant during the accident, defines the mechanisms for the claimed injuries, and determines whether the accident event created the injury mechanisms.

Biomechanical analysis techniques
Case Studies
Kinematic analysis
- Understanding how the claimant moved during the event
Injury analysis
- Understanding and describing mechanisms of injuries
- Defining human tolerance thresholds and applying those thresholds specifically to the subject case
- Assessing the injured party's unique personal tolerance
Combining kinematic and injury analyses to assess causation
Provide a general review of methods to best incorporate biomechanical opinions into claim strategy.

Speaker(s):

Bradley W. Probst, M.S.B.M.E.
Senior Biomechanist - ARCCA, Incorporated
Mr. Probst earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering at University of Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, and an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. For his Ph.D. dissertation at Tulane, Mr. Probst developed the most advanced kinematic model of the human cervical spine known to date. This unique model will be used to make technological advances to Naval pilot ejection and recovery systems. In addition, Mr. Probst has also done advanced course work in the fields of biomaterials, materials engineering, biosolid mechanics, mechanisms of bodily functions, and advanced finite element analysis. He has also lectured extensively and shared teaching responsibilities for courses in biomedical engineering and design and analysis at Tulane University.

As a biomedical consultant for a national accident investigation firm and while a student, Brad gained valuable experience in forensic analysis while working on a university project to research soft tissue injury caused by dynamic inertial loading.

While investigating and presenting work on bone morphology, his focus was the proper use of computation modeling as it related to bone material property identification. His significant contributions led to important developments in the field of bone mechanics and response of living bone to stress and disease.