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Comprehensive Update on Workers' Compensation Compliance in CA.: Significant Developments with Case law, Cutting Edge Issues

Join Patti Eyres, Managing Partner of Eyres Law as she presents updates to California Workers' Comp Law.  This webinar is #4 in a series of updates on new legislation, regulation, and litigation. We will focus completely on the newest developments and in workers' compensation law and claims management. This information-packed yet practical webinar will include everything you need to know to manage workplace injuries, apply Labor Code and Education Code mandates for industrial injury leaves, properly apply paid leave benefits, identify appropriate transitional assignments in an Early RTW program, and interactive process/RTW strategies when the employee has permanent restrictions.

We will highlight significant appellate court and WCAB decisions impacting school district employers. Don't miss this fast-paced, informative review of the most critical WC issues from 2018 and anticipated trends for 2019.

The handout materials will include a concise and practical set of checklists for providing mandated notices for new hires and existing employees, applying paid benefits for industrial leave, coordinating TTD with sick leave, MOU or Ed. Code extended sick leave, or other wages and benefits, as well as concurrent and consecutive leaves Topics include:

1. Workers’ Comp decisions impacting claims management & resolution:
2. Thorny issues surrounding apportionment of permanent disability benefits;
3. Cumulative Trauma: what’s new and what to expect for 2019;
4. Managing mental injury claims, including reporting requirements when employees assert workplace stress, requirements for effective documentation, and coordinating paid sick leave benefits when a claim is delayed or denied;
5. Identifying when an employee is making a claim of workplace injury in the context of a complaint process or email
6. Documenting facts for the “good faith personnel action defense" and the importance of misconduct documentation;”
7. Bullying and abusive conduct: separating investigations of WC claims from work environment issues
8. Cases addressing co-morbidity factors such as obesity or inflammatory conditions;
9. How to make sense of apportionment: the practical and arcane aspects of apportionment of permanent disability and potential changes on the horizon with legislation;
10.  Impact of opioid dependency, substance abuse, chronic pain drug interactions, RTW for safety-sensitive jobs;
11. New developments on the "going and coming rule" for on the job injuries; and
12.  LC 132a vs. FEHA discrimination issues.

Need More Info or Help?
We hope you can join us. Feel free to contact Doug McGill for more details.

Phone: 916-850-7300
Email: dmcgill@csac-eia.org