Litigation arising from the management of employee benefits plans has increased dramatically over the past couple of years.  New federal laws, regulations, guidelines, and established case law, as well as increased compliance audits by the Department of Labor are expected to escalate the risks to an even higher level in 2022. Join us as Frank Pennachio helps guide us through this important topic.

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Workers' Compensation is a simple idea but when put into practice, it can get complicated.

Based on her new book, Workers' Compensation in Two Hours, this session will help you to help your clients navigate the workers' comp world that they dread.

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The employee leasing industry has enjoyed marked growth in the last few years, based upon the assumptions that a business owner could pass some of the regulatory responsibilities, and employer liabilities to a "professional employer organization" (PEO) trained in human resource management. Join us as Frank Pennachio helps us to understand how PEOs can be a mixed bag of good and bad.

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This class comes from more than 30 years of experience helping different-sized organizations with their workers' comp programs. Join James Moore as he leverages his experience analyzing claims, Experience Mod worksheets, premium audits, and policies to help clients improve their overall workers' comp programs.

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James Moore has been in the insurance world for over 30 years and in that time, he has dealt with questions from all over the industry. In this session, he details his top ten most common and most important questions that he has dealt with. Join us as he helps us deal with the frustrations clients face, the types of consultants that you'll meet, how to deal with premium and claim reviews, and more.

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No one is an expert when they first start out and this session is designed to help the workers' compensation rookie with the basics of how workers' comp insurance works, why our system is set up the way it is, and how to navigate all of the intricacies of this coverage.

This session won't make you an expert, but it is a start on your journey there.

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What makes for a compensable workers' compensation claim? This question has become exceedingly important in light of the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. Is it possible that someone might have a compensable COVID-19 related workers' compensation claim? This class will help you explain to your clients why injuries or illnesses that do not seem work-related may be accepted for payment.

This is the question that Nancy Germond wants to help us answer. Join us for this important and timely session on the effect that COVID-19 is going to have on certain workers' compensation claims today and in the future.

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Join us for a conversation hosted by Academy Director, Patrick Wraight as he moderates a conversation between Frank Pennachio and James Moore about the past, present, and future of workers' compensation insurance.

This conversation should prove to be illuminating as these two tend to disagree on several items.

We learn when we come up against points of view that differ from our own so come with your questions and get ready to keep learning.

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As workers' compensation rates go down, it seems that the risk is lower. Rates generally go in the direction of the actual risk, right? Well, in this session, Frank Pennachio will show us that the raw risks might be down so that the rates are going down, but there's another side to this coin in that there are larger risks that haven't gone away. In face, they might be increasing. Join us and find out why.

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