Find out what regulations are impacting your illness and injury programs and how to remain compliant.
This topic will provide you with a thorough analysis and discussion in order to understand the term disability under various states' workers' compensation statutes. You will also be provided with an in-depth learning experience covering the various available benefits including Long-Term Disability (LTD) and Short-Term Disability (STD) and the interplay with receipt of workers' compensation benefits. This information will present specific strategies to assess return-to-work motivation, risks and factors which can impact a prolonged period of disability and create barriers which influence return-to-work outcomes. Finally, the material will address several COVID-19 issues impacting the return-to-work situation for an injured worker.
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Agenda
Introduction
Definition of Disability Under State Statutes
Benefits Available to Injured Workers
- Workers' Compensation Benefits
- Medical Benefits
- Specific Loss and Disfigurement Benefits
Long-Term Disability Benefits
Short-Term Disability Benefits
Return-to-Work Strategy
- Accessing Return-to-Work Opportunities
- Risks and Factors
- Barriers and COVID-19 Issues
- Return-to-Work Process
- Successful Outcomes
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OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on September 23, 2020.
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- CA MCLE 1.5
- Lorman Business Center, LLC. is a State Bar of California approved MCLE sponsor and this course qualifies for 1.5 CLE hours of participatory credit.
To earn each credit Lorman offers through the OnDemand learning platform, you need to watch 100% of the program. Also, for certain credits you will need to fulfill additional requirements which will be displayed on the "credits" tab when viewing the course.
This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Mary Bergmann
Rawle & Henderson LLP
- Associate in the New York City and Long Island offices of Rawle & Henderson LLP
- Concentrates practice on the defense of insurance carriers, self-insured entities, and third-party administrators against workers’ compensation claims in New York State
- Has successfully handled matters before the New York Workers’ Compensation Law Board and appeals in the New York State Court of Appeals, the New York State Appellate Division First, Second and Third Departments, and Appellate Term
- Has also handled matters involving insurance coverage, product liability, casualty and premises liability, auto liability, and over-the-road truckers’ liability
- Admitted to practice in New York, as well as the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York
- J.D. degree, Brooklyn Law School, B.A. degree in political science, Fordham University

Zachary M. Rubinich
Rawle & Henderson LLP
- Partner in the Philadelphia office of Rawle & Henderson
- More than twenty years of experience in the field of workers’ compensation
- Defends and counsels a variety of businesses, insurers, and third-party administrators against workers’ compensation claims in Pennsylvania
- Assists clients to identify ways to control rising workers’ compensation costs without litigation
- Certified as a Workers’ Compensation Law Specialist as authorized by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- J.D. degree, Widener University Commonwealth Law School; B.A. degree in political science and government, Lycoming College
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