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Understanding Workers' Compensation

Track the injured employee through the process of workers' compensations, from defining and understanding a compensable injury through disability ratings and administrative hearings. Emphasis will be placed on procedural aspects, handling employee claims, and accident prevention techniques.

Key Information

Review the state statute on workers' compensation

  • What is an "injury in the course of employment?"

  • When and how are employees compensated?

  • Use of physicians and other medical specialists    

Understanding the administrative process

  • Insurance, self-insurance, claims handling

  • Appearing before the Administrative Law Judge

  • Settlements and their processes

"Nuts and bolts" of the workers' compensation process

  • Temporary total disability, permanent partial disability, and permanent disability

  • Developing a "Return to Work" strategy

  • Injured employees and the ADA          

Accident prevention strategies

  • Proactive planning and recognition of hazards

  • Employee involvement in safety

  • Impact of OSHA

Location: Springfield, MO
Date
: November 14, 2008
Time: 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Fee: $189
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