| 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 |
| Introduction To Claims |
| Topics include insurance basics, the claim function, factors affecting the claim environment, the claim process, automobile first-party claims, first-party property claims, liability claims, and workers' compensation claims.
A national examination will be given at the 11th class session. This exam is voluntary but highly recommended for students who plan to continue their professional development within the insurance industry. |
| 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. |
| Liability Claims Adjusting |
| Topics include liability investigation, evaluation of damages, litigation management, auto/home/commercial liability and coverage issues, settlement and ADR strategies, and case studies.
Online course not approved for DOI CE credit. However, CE credit can be obtained by passing the National Exam through IIA, www.aicpcu.org. DOI 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. |
| Property Loss Adjusting |
| Topics include persons/property insured, causes of loss, loss adjusting process and procedures, fraud, residential construction, preparing estimates, merchandise/time loss, auto physical damage, and contractor's equipment.
Online course not approved for DOI CE credit. However, CE credit can be obtained by passing the National Exam through IIA, www.aicpcu.org. DOI CE: none
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| 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 |
| Risk Assessment |
| Topics include risk management programs, the risk management process, legal foundations of liability loss exposures, assessing property liability, personnel, net income loss exposure, management liability and corporate governance, forecasting, cash flow anyalysis.
Classroom training can apply 35 continuing education hours for California fire/casuaty broker agents. Online classes are NOT APPROVED for CA fire/casualty broker agents CE; however, CE credit can be obtained by passing the National Exam through IIA, www.aicpcu.org |
| Risk Control |
| Topics include controlling property, personnel, liability, and net income loss exposures, intellectual property loss exposures, criminal loss exposures, disaster recovery for property loss exposures, understandng claim administration, fleet operations loss exposure, environmental loss exposures, understanding system safety, motivating and monitoring risk control activities.
Classroom training can apply 35 continuing education hours for California fire/casualty broker agents. Online classes are NOT APPROVED for CA fire/casualty broker agents CE; however, CE credit can be obtained by passing the National Exam through IIA, www.aicpcu.org |
| Risk Financing |
| Topics include understanding insurance as a risk financing technique, insurance plan design, forecasting accidental losses and risk financing needs, self-insurance plans, retrospective rating plans, reinsurance and its importance to risk financing plan captive insurance plans, finite and integrated risk insurance plans, capital market risk financing plans, noninsurance contractual transfer of risk, and purchasing insurance and other risk financing services.
Classroom training can apply 35 continuing education hours for California fire/casualty broker agents. Online classes are NOT APPROVED for CA fire/casualty broker agents CE; however, CE credit can be obtained by passing the National Exam through IIA, www.aicpcu.org. |
| The Claims Environment |
| Topics include activities in the claim process, basic investigation, fraud detection, good faith claim handling, ethics, negotiation skills and litigation management.
DOI CE: 27 CE hours for fire/casualty broker agents for instructor led courses.
Online course not approved for DOI CE credit. However, CE credit can be obtained by passing the National Exam through IIA, www.aicpcu.org. DOI CE: none |
| Workers' Compensation and Managing Bodily Injury Claims |
| Topics include workers' compensation system, compensability, statutory benefits, bodily injury claim management, injury and treatment evaluation, impairment and disability, rehabilitation, low back injury claims, medical investigation, and assessing treatments and disability.
Online course not approved for DOI CE credit. However, CE credit can be obtained by passing the National Exam through IIA, www.aicpcu.org. Other CE: 12 hours for WCCP. DOI CE: none |
