John and Nancy Romano, plus our Connectionology® Team welcome you back for another great webinar.

Register today for “When Records and Diagnoses Don’t Tell the Functional Story: Proving Real-World Impact in Complex Injury Cases” on Thursday, March 5, 2026 from 3:00pm-4:30pm EST – Eastern Standard Time.

Even with a robust medical record, it can be hard to credibly show real-world function: What can this person do day to day—and with what limitations, support, or supervision? This gap is especially pronounced in cases involving chronic pain, mental health conditions, and prolonged recovery from mild traumatic brain injury. These injuries often lack clear objective markers and are sometimes characterized as “less severe,” despite their profound impact on everyday functioning.

When that functional impact isn’t clearly documented, counsel is often left to rely on self-report, treating notes, family testimony, and day-in-the-life videos. While important, these sources can be vulnerable to “subjectivity” challenges or a focus on tests that don’t translate to everyday life. Too often, expert reports do not provide the ecological validity warranted to explain the “so what” of how diagnoses and injuries translate into a person’s ability to consistently and effectively carry out life roles in their home, community, and at work.

This webinar explores how forensic occupational therapy (OT) functional evaluations close this evidentiary gap by translating injury into observable, real-world performance data across home, community, social, recreational, and work-like roles.

Through case examples, attendees will see how structured findings on task performance, endurance, supervision needs, and assistance requirements create a defensible bridge between diagnosis and damages — and how this functional layer strengthens the impact of neuropsychology, FCEs, life care plans, and treating records.

By the end of the program, attendees will be able to:

• Identify cases where the record is functionally thin, particularly in chronic pain, mental health, and prolonged mTBI recovery — and recognize when functional evidence is essential to the theory of damages.
• Understand what forensic OT functional evaluations add by connecting symptoms and diagnoses to observable performance in real-world roles.
• Use functional findings strategically across the litigation lifecycle to support claims for household services, support and supervision needs, work capacity, and non-economic damages.

Plaintiff Firms and Criminal Defense firms may register for free and receive a confirmation with the log in instructions. No Defense firms are permitted.

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Thanks to our wonderful partners at HMR, Fox-AE Stratejic Relationship and Anytime AI!

HMR will be giving away 2 bags of delicious Costa Rica Tarrazu coffee and a coffee mug to one attendee. Good luck to all!