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October 2010
Segment 1 of 2010 Fall Workers' Compensation Update
Accreditation Information:
To submit this presentation for CLE credit you MUST use the following title on your homestudy affidavit 2010 Fall Workers' Compensation Update
Presentation:
New Statutes and Administrative Rules
PART 1: The Impact on the Colorado Division of Workers' Compensation's Processes and Procedures
Presented by Paul Tauriello, Acting Director, Division of Workers' Compensation, Colorado Department of Labor and Employment
PART 2: The Impact on Workers' Compensation Attorneys and Their Clients
Presented by John A. Sbarbaro, Esq. and Douglas J. Kotarek, Esq.
During its annual legislative session this past spring, the Colorado General Assembly passed 11 bills affecting workers' compensation law. Several of these bills contain multiple, detailed subsections altering the rights, responsibilities, and obligations of employers, insurers, claimants, health care providers, attorneys, the administrative courts and the Division of Workers' Compensation (the Division). In addition to the regulations promulgated on its own, several of the statutory changes required the Division to make additional regulatory changes.
In this special extended session of the program you will hear from both the Division and leading workers' compensation attorneys about what the statutory and regulatory changes mean for you and your clients! Here is just a sample of the new changes you will learn about:
Statutory Changes:
- Expanded definition of “employee”
- Exclusions from the definition of “independent contractor”
- Informational brochure employer or insurer must provide
- Division Independent Medical Examination (DIME) physician disclosure requirements
- Certain reversionary interests in insurance contracts now unenforceable
- Increased penalties for violations of workers' compensation laws
- Prohibitions on IME physicians from contacting authorized treating physicians and certain other physicians
- Limits on the recovery of an overpayment
- What the new ”Provider Review and Disclosure Act” requires
- The term, “at the time of injury,” clarified
- Changes to offsets of permanent partial disability
Regulatory Changes (Proposed and Adopted):
- DIME disclosures
- Complaint procedures for claimants
- New single life expectancy table
- Protection and privacy of DIME audio recordings and writings
- Lump sum payments
- Utilization standards
- Medical fee schedules
- Cumulative trauma conditions
- CLE Pass Price *FREE! - exclusions may apply
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- General Credits 2.00
- Ethics Credits
- EDI Credits