Audio Conferences

Employment Law Compliance: Disciplining or Terminating a Workers' Comp Claimant

This live audio conference will address many of the difficult issues that arise when considering whether to discipline or terminate an employee who is also a workers’ compensation claimant. The program will cover the core concepts underpinning workers’ compensation statutes and the primary types of...

Workers' Compensation: Return to Work Issues

By attending this program you will learn the fundamentals of managing the employee returning to work from a compensable injury. In addition to an understanding of the interplay between federal laws prohibiting discrimination against health conditions and state workers’ compensation laws, you will learn...

Workers' Compensation Benefits: Who is Eligible, How are They Calculated, When and How Can They be Settled

Workers’ compensation benefits are a continuing and significant expense to employers. This live audio conference will address who is eligible for workers’ compensation benefits, how these benefits are calculated and what employee benefits may be offset with the payments of workers’ compensation, and...

Common Injuries in Workers' Compensation

This live audio conference “Common Injuries in Workers’ Compensation,” presented by John W. Valente, Esq., will discuss some of the solutions and strategies used by employers to both prevent and control common workplace injury claims. A review of common injuries employers face every day in the workplace...

Medicare Secondary Payer Act: Protecting Medicare's Interest In Insurance Settlements

Pursuant to 42 USC Section 1395y(b)(2), commonly known as the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, Medicare may not make payment for medical benefits where payment has been made or can reasonably be expected to be made under a workers’ compensation law or plan of the United States or a state, or under an automobile...