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Workers' Compensation Fundamentals

Gain a better understanding of the various types and costs of workers' compensation benefits for an injured worker.

This topic will provide you with a thorough analysis and discussion of the various types of workers' compensation benefits available to injured employees. This course will provide an in-depth learning experience covering the various medical evidence, factual evidence, investigative evidence, and witnesses that can be utilized to reduce future claim exposure. This information will present specific strategies to assess return to work motivation, risks, and factors that can impact a prolonged period of disability and create barriers that influence return to work outcomes.

71 minutes
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Certificate of Completion
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Agenda

Benefits Available to Injured Workers

  • Wage Loss Benefits
  • Medical Benefits
  • Specific Loss Benefits
  • Disfigurement Benefits
  • Hearing Loss Benefits

Medical Evidence and Witnesses: Strategies to Reduce Claim Costs

  • How IMEs Reduce Claim Costs
  • Issues and Reasons for Scheduling
  • Causal Relationship and Degree of Disability
  • Timing
  • Lowering Temporary Lost Earning Awards
  • Limiting Established Injuries

Factual Evidence and Witnesses: Strategies to Reduce Claim Costs

  • Type of Evidence
    • Employment and Personnel, Financial Records, Educational
  • Type of Witnesses
    • CoWorker and Supervisor, Vocational Expert, Investigator

Surveillance, Social Media, Background Checks, and Criminal Checks: Strategies to Reduce Claim Costs

  • Surveillance
  • Social Media Check
  • Background Check; Criminal Check

Return-to-Work Strategy

  • Accessing Return-to-Work Opportunities
  • Issues/Situations Which Have Arisen as a Result of the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic
  • Weighing Risks and Factors
  • Barriers
  • Return-to-Work Process
  • Successful Outcomes
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OnDemand Course

This course was last revised on March 24, 2022.

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  • ASA 1.0
     
  • This program qualifies for 1.0 continuing education hour(s) towards maintaining your ASA credential. Please contact ASA for more information at [email protected]. Please retain proof of attendance in the event your CE record is audited.
     
  • BCSP
     
  • This course is applicable to safety professionals. Professionals interested in credit through the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP), please contact the board at 1-317-593-4800, or you can access the Recertification Guide here: https://online.fliphtml5.com/pbcyp/eprz/
     
  • HR Certification Institute 1.25
     
  • This E-Learning program has been approved for 1.25 (General) recertification credit hours toward aPHR(TM), aPHRi(TM), PHR®, PHRca®, SPHR®, GPHR®, PHRi(TM) and SPHRi(TM)recertification through HR Certification Institute® (HRCI®). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org.
     
  • SHRM 1.0
     
  • Lorman Education Services is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CPSM or SHRM-SCPSM. This program is valid for 1.0 PDC(s) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.
     

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.

  • Those applying for AIA and HRCI must view 100% of the program and answer the questions following the program.

This program does NOT qualify, nor meet the National Standard for NASBA accreditation.

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Mary Bergmann

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

Zachary M. Rubinich

Rawle & Henderson LLP

  • Partner in the Philadelphia office of Rawle & Henderson LLP
  • Over 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 in identifying 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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Product ID: 409583
Published 2022
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