| Advanced Issues In Workers' Compensation |
| This program involves claims personnel in important 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 a basic 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, and managing risk. Elective topics include some of the following: creative settlements, self-insured market, current issues, subrogation, trial techniques, workers' compensation alternatives, broker's perspective, and the applicant attorney's strategy/targets.
Other c.e. credit: 30 CE hours for BRN-Board of Registered Nurses and MCLE. DOI CE: none |
| Labor Code And Current Case Law |
| This program involves a thorough review and discussion of all sections of the labor code applicable to workers' compensation laws in the State of California. Current case law will also be discussed in conjunction with questions of injury, AOE/COE, TD, PD, death benefits, S & W, 132A, and subrogation. Additional areas of the labor code relative to statutes, penalties, practices and procedures are also included. This course is of assistance in preparing for the State of California Self-Insurance Workers' Compensation Administrator's examination. Instructors update this course each semester with new case law and regulations impacting the workers' compensation claims industry.
Other CE credit: 30 CE hours for BRN-Board of Registered Nurses and MCLE. DOI CE: none. |
| Medical Coordination of Workers' Compensation Claims |
| This course concentrates on medical management and control of the claim. Medical-legal reports, bills and liens, as well as current trends in medical rehabilitation are dicussed. Medical specialties identified with emphasis on how they might relate to a workers' compensation case. Medical terminology is reviewed in self-study and class-lecture formats based on the knowledge level of the class.
Other CE credit: 30 CE hours for BRN-Board of Registered Nurses and MCLE. D0I CE: none |
| Permanent Disability Rating and AMA Guides - Basic |
| This course is designed to cover permanent disability rating of scheduled disabilities occurring after January 1, 2005. Beginning with an overview of the rating process, contents and use of the schedule, the course includes relevant terminology, anatomical terms, and medical descriptions and measurements in conjunction with the mechanics of rating disabilities per the AMA Guides, 5th edition. Emphasis is placed upon utilization of definitions, footnotes and appendix information contained in the schedule and the guides. It is advisable that students taking this course have basic rating skills. There is a text required for this class, "Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment" by Gunnar A.J. Andersson, 5th edition, ISBN 1-57947-085-8, available from amazon.com.
Other c.e. credit: 30 CE hours for BRN-Board of Registered Nurses and MCLE. DOI CE: none. |
| Return to Work and Disability Management in the Workers' Compensation System |
| Completely revised for the post-vocational rehabilitation workers' compensation environment. This course provides an overview of return-to-work requirements, strategies, and processes within the workers' compensation system. The course covers procedures in accordance with the Labor Code, rules and regulations, administrative guidelines, timelines and method of completion for notices and forms; legal and procedural requirements for post 2004 return to work. The basics of early return-to-work programs, the parameters of related disability descrimination laws, including the ADA, FEHA, and FMLA and the role of the workers' compensation professional in effectively managing the employers' cost of disability will be explained. Instructors will also address lingering VR legal issues, including potential costs and strategies for prompt resolution. Other CE credit: 30 hours towards Workers' Compensation Claims Adjuster Certification/CE, 30 CE hours for BRN-Board of Registered Nurses and MCLE, DOI CE: none |
| Workers' Compensation Claims |
| This course provides participants with an in-depth study of workers' compensation, including its history and evolution, up to the present system. A basic understanding of insurance vs. self-insurance, definitions of employer and employee, criteria of industrial injury (AOE/COE) benefits provided, medical control of claims, including discussion of Utilization Review and Medical Provider Networks, and overview of the WCAB are all discussed. CA 8 or the seminar Introduction to Workers' Compensation Claims is a suggested prerequisite for individuals with less than 6 months claims handling experience.
CA 8 and CA 10 cannot be taken simultaneusly.
Other c.e. credit: BRN-Board of Registered Nurses and MCLE.
DOI CE: none |
| Workers' Compensation Claims Advanced |
| An Advanced course designed to provide current case law covering employment, injury, earnings, compensation benefits and medical control. Effects of 2004 reform as well as recent legislation and current case law will be reviewed. Present practices and procedures of WCAB are discussed, along with strategies on administering litigation. The California Unit Statistical Plan and the function and purpose of the California workers' compensation insurance rating bureau and the components of premiums are all discussed.
CA 11 should be the last course taken in the WCCA Claims Administraiton Certificate program.
Other c.e. credit: 30 CE hours for BRN-Board of Registered Nurses and MCLE. DOI CE: none |
