Managing Ill, Injured and Disabled Workers, Part II: Short-term Conditions

Categorized under Construction & Real Estate, Manufacturing & Distribution, Schools & Public Entities, Senior Living & Social Services, Transportation, Business Insurance, Seminar.

Lindner & Marsack, M3 Insurance Solutions for Business and Blankenheim Services will present part II of their three-part series on assessing and minimizing the risks associated with ill, injured and disabled employees.

This presentation will focus on employees with short-term conditions. Employers of every size must develop effective strategies for managing employees suffering from short-term illness and injuries. These conditions can increase the cost of workers’ compensation coverage and claims. They also can increase the cost of health insurance. These conditions tend to decrease overall productivity and to increase labor costs by requiring overtime or temporary workers. The employees who cover for these workers can become resentful, hurting morale and team work.

This presentation will address strategies, policies and practices for minimizing the impact of these conditions while complying with state and federal legal obligations. In particular, the presentation will cover:

I.    Workers’ Compensation
      – Procedures for first reports of injury, first aid and emergency care
      – Managing treatment and detecting/investigating fraud
      – The claims process
      – Return-to-work and light duty

II.   FMLA
     – The nexus between FMLA leave and workers’ compensation injuries
     – Developing policies that manage the competing business and legal concerns arising out of work-related and non-work-related conditions

III.  Accommodations
     – Explore how the treatment of workers’ compensation injuries can affect the obligation to accommodate non-work-related injuries

IV. Effective drug-testing policies

 

There is no cost to attend this seminar.

 

Please RSVP by emailing Daniela Annen at daniela.annen@m3ins.com by February 25, 2011.
 

This event will be held at:
Country Springs Hotel
2810 Golf Road
Pewaukee, WI 53072-5499

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