By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire
To All Workers’ Compensation Practitioners and Clients:
The National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network has announced its’ 2014 Fall Seminar, returning to beautiful downtown Chicago, IL, on September 24, 2014, the date that the NWCDN will be hosting its Cocktail Guest Reception, as well as September 25, 2014, when the NWCDN will host its illuminating full-day Seminar, with the Seminar Conference being conducted at The Intercontinental Hotel, located at 505 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
The NWCDN Cocktail Reception will be hosted at the Signature Room, on the 95th Floor of the Hancock Center, located at 875 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Registration for the NWCDN Conference can be submitted by emailing [email protected], on or before September 16, 2014.
The all-day Seminar will then be conducted on September 25, 2014, at The Intercontinental Hotel, located at 505 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois.
Hotel reservations can be made by contacting The Intercontinental Hotel at 1-800-628-2112, identifying the group code as LL1, or as the NWCDN event.
This event is open to NWCDN member firms and their invited guests only.
There is, and never has been, a charge for invited guests, for this event.
The event is educational, instructive, illuminating, and downright fun.
The topics to be discussed at the upcoming Seminar are:
ü Predicting The Future (it is not so far-fetched after all), which will deal with how to best utilize big data predictive modeling, to drive claim actions and actualize the best workers’ compensation claims management practices;
ü Common Threads: Effective Management and Multi-State Workers’ Compensation Programs, to deal with liberal jurisdictions, conservative jurisdictions, statutory differences, direction of medical care, varied litigation procedures, amidst the tangled mess of jurisdictional differences nationally; this panel of seasoned industry experts will address the pitfalls to avoid, the minefields to crawl through, the efficiencies to seek, and the overall best practices to employ as you work towards the unified approach to managing claims across multiple jurisdictions;
ü Point-Counterpoint-Theories of Reserving, with this presentation dealing with an overview of what a case reserve is, what buckets case reserves fall into, how the reserves get set, and why they are important, as well as touching on how actuaries participating in the cycle of reserving a workers’ compensation claim, and the challenges system participants have in making projections of costs over time. Expect to be exposed to the pros and cons of different reserving practices from the perspective of a reserving consultant, an employer, and an insurance carrier;
ü How to Screw Up a Workers’ Compensation Claim and Ways to Avoid It, with this session dealing with practical advice for creating a successful workers’ compensation safety program, to avoid the wrecking ball, excusing Miley Cyrus, often associated with workers’ compensation claims, and the topics that will be covered will include integration of safety programs and claims avoidance, effective management of workers’ compensation claims, and managing and avoiding protracted litigation, a must-be-attended session for all participants;
ü Practical Tips and Strategies for Settling Claims Involving Medicare, with this session dealing with the different options for creatively dealing with Medicare issues in workers’ compensation claims and settlements, including the efficient handling of conditional payment liens, cost-effective strategies for creating Medicare Set-Asides, and ways to close out future medical benefits while avoiding “Goodfellas” (excusing Martin Scorsese) solutions;
ü Creative Settlements-NWCDN, with NWCDN members sharing the microphone, to provide State-by-State guidance for resolving your claims, with this panel dealing with global settlements and whether your State allows for complete closure of your claim, and under what circumstances, as well as how to handle open medical, general employment releases, and proposed settlement language, along with other issues necessary to consider finalizing a case resolution in your specific State;
ü Spinal Cord Stimulation, The Good, The Bad, and the Truth, a not-to-be missed presentation by Dr. William Monacci, a neurosurgeon, who will deal with the etiology of failed back surgery syndrome, and patient selection for spinal cord stimulator; and,
ü Narcotic Overuse Issues in Workers’ Compensation, being a cutting edge exploration of the context of counseling injured workers relying on narcotic pain medications and changing prescription practices of treating physicians, to avoid life-long narcotic use/abuse and target successful outcomes of claims.
Following the presentations, beginning at 8:15 AM, and concluding at 4:30 PM, a Cocktail Reception will be hosted for all attendees.
There will also be a complimentary breakfast served from 7:45 to 8:15 AM.
The NWCDN is a network of “Many Firms, One Purpose”, all dedicated to defending workers’ compensation claims, for the protection of their clients, employers, insurers, and third-party administrators.
Join us in Chicago to meet our members and member firms!
ConnorsLaw LLP
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Defending workers’ compensation claims throughout Pennsylvania for employers, self-insureds, insurance carriers, and third party administrators, our 100+ years of cumulative experience defending our clients against compensation-related liabilities, empowers our workers’ compensation practice group attorneys to be more than mere claim denials, entrusting us to create the factual and legal leverage to expeditiously resolve claims, in the course of limiting/reducing/extinguishing our clients’ liabilities under the Pennsylvania’s Workers’ Compensation Act.
With every member of our workers’ compensation practice group being AV-rated, our partnership with the NWCDN magnifies the lens through which our professional expertise imperiously demands that we always be dynamic and exacting advocates for our clients, businesses, corporations, and insurance carriers, seeking our trial and compensation acumen, navigating the frustrating and form-intensive minefield pervasive throughout Pennsylvania workers’ compensation practice and procedure.
