Discover the biggest hurdles to your workers' compensation settlement and how to prevent them.
This topic will help you better understand current issues that impact a workers' compensation practice and common issues all attorneys and stakeholders face. Reaching agreements, overcoming obstacles, and how the ACA and Medicare impact your case will be discussed. Learn how attorneys can overcome these hurdles and be zealous advocates for their clients.
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Agenda
Workers' Compensation: Settlements, Basics and Beyond
- Proper Evaluation of Your Claim: Calculating the AWW, and TTD, TPD and PTD Exposures
- Dealing With Troublesome Clients From a Plaintiff and Defense Perspective
- Preparing for Settlement Negations and Mediation
- Thinking Outside the Box - Strategies for Case Settlement
- Properly Drafting the Stipulation for Settlement (and Employment Release)
The Impact of the ACA on Workers' Compensation Settlements
- Understanding the ACA and Its Impact of Workers' Compensation
- Claim Shifting, Cost Shifting and Other Potential Impacts on Workers' Compensation
- Settlement Negotiation Strategies: Insurance Premiums, Out-Of-Pocket Expenses
Using Medicare Set-Asides in Your Workers' Compensation Settlement
- Discussing the Issue of a MSA at the Time of Settlement
- Thinking of the MSA as a Contract
- Dealing With Settlement Delays and MSAs
- Educating Yourself and Others
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Credits
OnDemand Course
This course was last revised on June 19, 2018.
Call 1-866-352-9540 for further credit information.
This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.
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Faculty
Aaron Frederickson
MSP Compliance Solutions, LLC
- Legal practice experience in the areas of workers’ compensation, personal injury, and Medicare/Medicaid compliance
- A health insurance professional that brings a passion to educating his peers
- Licensed to practice law in Minnesota since 2002, as well as Wisconsin starting in 2008
- Has litigated countless cases and founded a compliance consulting firm where he helped numerous individuals from diverse backgrounds across the United States
- Passions include assisting low income persons via pro bono legal representation
- J.D. degree, William Mitchell College of Law, St. Paul, MN; B.A. degree, St. Cloud State University
- Can be contacted at 651-485-7036 or [email protected]
Shannon Nelson
Law Offices of Brian A. Meeker/State Auto/RTW Insurance Companies
- Attorney at the Law Offices of Brian A. Meeker/State Auto/RTW Insurance Companies
- Has been practicing law since 2001
- Primarily defended employers and insurers, but has also represented injured workers
- Named a Rising Star by Law & Politics; has also been an ethics investigator for the Board of Professional Responsibility
- Can be contacted at 763-354-5333 or [email protected]
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