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NYSDA RISK MANAGEMENT
Alumni Speaker Series
Friday, October 23, 2009
1:00pm-5:00pm (4 CE credits)
$95 additional registration fee required.
Do you know how long you are obligated to store patient records? What information needs to be included in a medical history? How to legally terminate a professional relationship with a patient? Answers to these and many other sometimes thorny legal questions are provided in the NYSDA RISK MANAGEMENT course.
This new course features a PowerPoint slide presentation given by a dentist and attorney whose experience extend to the fields of malpractice insurance and risk management in the dental office
A certificate will be issued to all participants who successfully complete the seminar. Dentists who complete this course will be entitled to a 10% discount on their liability premiums for a three year period from the Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Company (MLMIC). Other companies also accept this course for a discount. Please check with your carrier. Four CE credits will be given for completion of this course. Credits for NYSDA members will be automatically recorded with the NYSDA CE Registry.
If you have not completed an approved Risk Management program within the past three years, it is necessary for you to take this course in order to continue to receive your discount.
Recommended for....Dentists
John Asaro, DDS, MA is a graduate of the UB School of Dental Medicine (DDS and Certificate in Periodontics). He is a practicing periodontist in Tonawanda, NY and at the University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine. He has served as a Delegate to the Annual House of Delegates meeting of the ADA in 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001. Dr. Asaro was on the DSSNY Council on Insurance from 1983 through 1991 and served as Chairman from 1989-91. He has been a member of the DSSNY / NYSDA Risk Management Presenting Team since its inception in 1985. He has been a member of the Board of Governors since 1998. Dr. Asaro has been Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Budget and Audit for the years 2000, 2001, and 2002, as well as a member of the Executive Committee of NYSDA for the same period.
Kevin Ricotta, JD, is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame and a 1982 graduate from Notre Dame Law School. As a law student, Mr. Ricotta was Student Director of the Intern Program in the Cass County, Michigan Prosecutor’s Office, and while still in law school, personally tried several cases under Michigan Court rules. In 1982, Mr. Ricotta associated with the Buffalo law firm of Brown & Kelly, LLP and began practicing in the insurance defense field. He became a general partner in 1986. In 1991, he joined the firm of Connors & Vilardo and concentrated his practice in the defense of medical malpractice claims. In 2001, Mr. Ricotta formed his own firm specializing in the defense of professional liability claims against hospitals, physicians, dentists, and attorneys. He has extensive litigation experience and is a lecturer on civil litigation for the NY State and Erie County Bar Associations. He is counsel to the Eighth District Dental Society and frequently lectures on risk management to dentists and physicians throughout Western NY. Mr. Ricotta is a member of the Erie County, Northern Chautauqua County, and NY State Bar Associations and the Western NY Trial Lawyers Association. He is a former member of the Judiciary Committee of the Erie County Bar Association and has served as Chairman of the Membership Committee. Mr. Ricotta is admitted to practice in New York State and before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of NY.
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