Advanced Workers' Compensation

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PROGRAM SUMMARY
Our presenters are experts in Workers’ Compensation. They will provide you with the information you need on the important developments in this complex and dynamic area of the law. They are also accomplished and insightful speakers who can answer your questions regarding practical application of this information. Regardless of your current level of expertise, you will benefit from this seminar.

AGENDA
I. Case Law and Legislation Update

II. Calculating Compensatory Earnings-Calculate loss of daily compensatory earning power and average weekly wage

• Benefits to be included
• Seasonal vs. intermittent employees
• Part-time vs. full-time calculation dilemma
• Dealing with moonlighting /self-employment plus a regular wage job – multiple employers

III. Interplay Between Benefits – WC, ADA, FMLA

VI. Workers’ Compensation Retaliation

V. Novel Issues of Course and Scope

• The premises rule and break time injuries
• Assaults and horseplay
• Athletic and social event
• Will the intoxication defense ever apply

VI. Medical Treatment and Vocational Rehabilitation Issues

• Medical treatment
• Vocational rehabilitation - When does the employee qualify
• The scale of benefits and lump sum buyouts - return to work issues

VII. Claims

• How to analyze
• Settlement strategies
• Claims for benefits by the employee
• Attempts of employer/carrier to terminate, suspend, or modify benefits

VIII. Occupational Disease and the Standard of Causation

• The standard of proof
• Is reasonable medical probability always necessary
• Deciphering the statute of limitations in cumulative trauma cases

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

• Attorneys
• Workers’ Compensation Administrators
• Human Resource Professionals
• Risk Managers
• Vocational Rehabilitation Specialists
• Insurance Claims Representatives
• Safety Director
• Occupational Health Nurses

Sponsor Background:
Sterling Education Services Inc. continues a long tradition of continuing education programs first begun in Eau Claire Wisconsin in 1983, dedicated to furthering educational development within the United States through instruction of the public on subjects useful to the individual and beneficial to the community. A hallmark of this tradition is Sterling's dedication to excellence in its relationships with those it serves: faculty members, attendees, and employees. We strive to be fair and easy to deal with at all levels, delivering excellent service and value on time, every time.

Specifically, Sterling Education Services, Inc. offers seminars on timely topics relevant to succeeding in the constantly changing economic, legal, and cultural environment within which professionals, educators, governmental units and agencies, businesses, non-profit entities and individuals must operate today. Sterling Education Services brings its seminars to you, enlisting faculty members from among the most distinguished professionals in your area, who are experts in topics they are presenting.

You can attend a Sterling seminar in your own community, and learn what you need to know from people you know and respect, all at a reasonable fee. You will also receive hand-out materials that are permanently bound into a reference book that will be a valuable resource after the seminar. If attending a particular seminar that you need doesn't work for you, the seminars are also available on audio tape. We look forward to serving you.

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