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Illinois Workers’ Compensation 101

Space is limited. Reserve your Seminar or Webinar seat now!
(Registration Info at the Bottom of the Email)
Cost: $93 Donation (see below for details)

Seminar:
Keefe, Campbell & Associates and Woodlake Medical Management will host an All-Day Educational Seminar on Friday, September 17, 2010. The seminar will be from 9AM – 4PM. (Location: 18 North Clinton Street, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60661)

Webinar(s):
For those who can’t attend the All-Day Educational Seminar and have to stay at your desk, on the second Friday of September, October, November and December 2010, we will be presenting the same content from the All-Day Educational Seminar broken up into a four-part ninety-minute lunch Fall Webinar Series starting at noon and running until 1:30 p.m.

We are titling the All-Day Educational Seminar and Fall Webinar Series: Illinois Workers’ Compensation 101. We will focus on all aspects of Illinois Workers’ Compensation claims, law and practice.

We are dedicating the Fall Webinar Series to the memory of Mary Keefe Allen, who died much too young from liver cancer last September 3, 2009. We are asking attendees to donate $93.00 for the All-Day Seminar or entire Fall Webinar Series. All monies raised will be used for the education of Mary’s children. Please make the checks payable to Keefe, Campbell & Associates and send to our main office at 118 North Clinton Street, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60661. We assure you all monies will go solely for the charitable cause.

The All-Day Educational Seminar and Fall Webinar Series will be informative, entertaining and educational. Materials are included. It is the only Illinois WC educational program presented by Gene Keefe and Michael J. Danielewicz, Adjunct Professors of Law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago along with other attorneys from Keefe, Campbell & Associates.

We are applying for CEU/CLE certification for all attendees.

We reserve the right to update this but here is the main presentation outline as of today:

September 9, 2010: (This date just changed to the 9th from the 10th!)

• Understanding the Illinois Workers’ Compensation System in Relation to Other Systems
• How Illinois Benefits are Delivered and the Role of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission
• Is the Loss Covered by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act?
• Is this an Employee?
• Is this an Accident Covered by the Act?
• Traditional Accident Defenses/Quirks and their Comparative Merit in this State
• How to “Win” Illinois Workers’ Compensation Claims at Hearing Before the Arbitrator
• How to Settle Claims and Get the best Outcome in Litigation
• Medicare Set-Asides in WC Settlements

October 8, 2010:

• Optimizing Independent Medical Examinations
• Cover Letters for IMEs
• Causal Connection
• Intervening and Superseding Events
• Calculation of the Average Weekly Wage
• Age, Marital Status and Dependents
• Medical Management in Illinois
• Nurse Case Management in Illinois
• Temporary Total Disability
• Temporary Partial Disability
• Credit for Group Benefits Paid

November 12, 2010:

• Nature and Extent of the Injury
• Understanding and Managing Amputation Claims
• Subpoenas and Pre-Hearing Discovery in Illinois Workers’ Compensation
• Subrogation
• Liens and Related Claims Against Workers’ Compensation Benefit Payments in Illinois
• Surveillance
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Retaliatory Discharge
• Rules for Illinois WC Death Claims
• Defending Wage Loss Claims in Illinois
• Defending Total and Permanent Disability Claims

December 10, 2010:

• Risk Management – Attacking WC Claims Costs in Every Possible Direction
• Accident Investigation and Documentation: Recorded Statements by Handwriting, Audiotape, Videotape and Webcam
• HIPAA and the Strange Petrillo and Hydraulics Rulings
• Pushing MMI with IMEs and UR
• Pushing RTW
• Enforced Accident Reporting
• Dealing with Repeat Claimants
• Workers’ Compensation Settlement with Coincidental General Release/Resignation
• How WC, FMLA and EPL Claims Collide
• The Care and Feeding of Great Defense Counsel

To register for the All-Day Educational Seminar, please send an email to: chris@woodlakemedical.com.

To register for the 4-part webinar series, please go to: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/664796433