Before any case proceeds to trial, the judge shall conduct what?

Prepare for the Rhode Island Workers Compensation Adjusters Test. Utilize flashcards and multiple-choice questions, each equipped with hints and explanations. Successfully ready yourself for your exam!

This question tests the practical process that sets up a workers’ compensation case for trial. The required step before going to trial is a conference that the judge orders, bringing all parties together to map out the contested issues, exchange documents and witness lists, and set schedules and deadlines. This mandatory pretrial conference helps the judge and the parties clarify what must be proven, streamline what will be argued at trial, and encourage settlements where possible, so the actual trial time is focused and efficient.

A voluntary mediation session is not mandated by the judge as part of the pretrial process, and an evidentiary hearing is a separate proceeding used to resolve specific evidentiary questions rather than to plan the trial. A full trial is the event that follows, not the step that precedes it.