Presented by the Workers' Compensation Section
About the Program
Join us for a free one-hour webinar on COVID-19 and workers’ compensation practice. Topics will be presented jointly by a claimant’s attorney and a respondent’s attorney.
You Will Learn
- About the law on compensability of infectious diseases, and application of that law to claims for COVID-19 infections, including problems of proof of causation
- Can claimants refuse to attend in-person medical exams, including respondents’ medical exams and commissioners’ exams? Can these exams be conducted telephonically?
- Do insurers have to pay extended periods of temporary total disability, temporary partial, or 308a benefits if claimants don’t attend medical appointments due to infection, fear of infection or cancellation by medical providers of procedures?
- About the Chairman’s waiver of job search requirements
- About the Chairman’s memoranda regarding hearings, Forms 36, stipulation approvals, and other emergency measures
- Will claims be easier or more difficult to settle during outbreak?
- About issues concerning support staff working from home
- About practice management, continuation, and obligations to clients during pandemic
Who Should Attend
Workers’ compensation practitioners and attorneys representing employers of workers with occupational exposure to COVID-19.
Cost
Free
COVID-19 response webinars are recorded. A recording will be made available for FREE in our Education Portal as soon as possible.