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Advanced Issues in Workers' Compensation (CA 20)
This course instructs students about advanced or unusual subjects and issues that provide workers' compensation claims professionals with a broad understanding of how their activities affect the insurance business as a whole. Students will gain an understanding of the following core topics: macro workers' compensation issues, bad faith, employer bill of rights and civil litigation, underwriting techniques and issues, medical management, employment and labor law, Longshore and Maritime coverages, and managing risk. Other topics include: creative settlements, self-insured market, Medicare reporting issues, subrogation, trial techniques, workers' compensation alternatives, and the applicant attorney's strategy/targets.
What you will learn:
- Lien resolution strategies
- Strategies for successful investigation of fraud
- Medicare set-asides: rules and techniques
- What is a structured settlement and how is it done
- WCAB practices and procedures
- The types of Insurance that affect employers and workers
- Utilization review and medical management
- Financial and premium impacts of claims reserving
- The employers bill of rights
- Employment law and its interaction with workers' compensation
- Longshore and Harbor Act and concurrent jurisdiction issues
CE Credit
- WCCP-CA - 12 Hours
- CPDM - 12 Hours
- CA-WC-CERT - 30 Hours
- BRN/MCLE - 30 Hours
Workers' Compensation Adjuster Post Designation Training
This course applies 30 hours towards the training requirement for a workers' compensation claims adjuster, medical only claims adjuster, or medical bill reviewer pursuant to California Insurance Code Section 11761 and California Code of Regulations Section 2592 et esq. You must be online in the course for the full 30 hours and complete all course requirements to download and print the training certificate.
If you complete all course requirements before the 30 hours, we recommend you return and review the sections most important to master your understanding of the subject matter. If you have completed the course in less than the recommended time and wish to receive a certificate documenting the hours you actually spent in the course please contact IEA at 1-800-655-4432 or email us at leslie@ieatraining.com. Please note that once you have received your certificate, you will no longer have access to the course.
Refund Policy
The course must be completed within 90 days of the date of purchase. A full refund, less a $30 fee, will be given within one week of registration if you are not satisfied with the product. No refund after one week. If student desires, instead of refund, he/she will be allowed to transfer into a classroom course or online instructor led course at public price with credit for entire online cost (no $30 fee).
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Cost: $299.00
Duration: 90 days
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