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Learning Objectives
1.Examine how different ages and generations communicate. Identify suggestions for communicating with each group to be able to navigate a worker's compensation claim efficiently and effectively.
2.Define the role of an attorney in a workers compensation claim. Explain the elements of a work comp claim and the stages of its litigation. Review the important workers compensation legal decisions nationally and in Mississippi - in 2022. Recognize how those decisions affect resolution development moving into 2023.
3.Discuss the concept of the Grand Bargain and demonstrate how the premise of the workers compensation system is essential to healthy economic development and commerce. Recall the events and activities of the last few years and how they have impacted the workers compensation process / system. Extrapolate knowledge gained from those events and how it could influence the construct or functioning of workers compensation in the future. Contrast the argument that change is needed within the system and that the workers compensation process is outdated and does not meet the needs of todays employee with the idea that no such change is needed, and the system is functioning well providing the support needed for employees that suffer work related injuries.
4.Analyze the important role to the insurance industry of the excess carrier in offering expertise and advice while overseeing each step of the resolution process. Examine the currents issues and trends they are seeing in the reinsurance market, as well as management of catastrophic claims.
5.Identify the reasons for one of the most dramatic increased implementations of telehealth technology. Describe the uses of telehealth in the future and how we can sustain this level of telehealth use. Identify future innovations in telehealth. Discuss the issue of lack of broadband in Mississippi. Identify regulatory challenges being faced by the telehealth industry in Mississippi and at a national level.
6.Outline the nuances of managing the medical aspects of a work comp case for employees injured while traveling abroad on business and as well as those injured in the United States but decide to return to their home country for treatment. Discuss the challenges presented in the coordination of care in either scenario. Identify the specialized expertise needed to facilitate care.