Our most recent appearances in various publications:
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2010 - Small Businesses and Workers' Compensation: Help Your Customers Reduce Their WC Costs" by Rebecca Shafer, J.D. Information to help agents learn how to help "small business" clients, who can least afford financial errors, reduce Workers' Compensation costs by focusing on two key areas: safety and post-injury response. |
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"2009 - Saving Grace" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq Workers' compensation has become a prime area of focus for employers and carriers looking to save money during the current economic situation, and cost-saving measures are evolving. Speeding up the claims process, eliminating wasteful steps, opening communication and keeping a closer relationship with the injured worker are being explored in various ways. |
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"2009 - Workers′ Comp Success Depends on Quality Analysis" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq A guy is looking for a lost nickel under a streetlight. When quizzed, he says he lost it elsewhere, but he′s looking there "because the light is better here." That old joke is relevant to workers′ compensation. Managers and executives often misidentify the cause of their organization′s excessive comp costs. |
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"WC Programs Need Tune Up" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq Controlling workers′ compensation costs starts with a thorough assessment, which is the most important part of the process. If you don′t understand what is driving the costs, you won′t be able to design an effective program to reduce those costs. |
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"Grabbing Control of Workers' Compensation and Litigation" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq Employers often don′t know what is causing their workers′ comp costs to rise. They assume that the injurymanagement program they have in place is a solid one. They think rising costs are a fact of life and attribute rate increases to the rising cost of living. Looking closer, employers are surprised to find that there are actually several pre- and post-loss areas that, singly or together, drive up their workers′ comp costs. |
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"Proactive Agents Can Help Contractors and Subcontractors Reduce Workers' Comp Costs" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq When helping contractors and subcontractors reduce their workers′ comp costs, focus on four key elements: accurately determine the cause of the high costs, improve communications with employees, bring employees back to work as soon as they are able to perform any type of productive tasks in the workplace, and reduce fraud and abuse. |
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"Myths & Realities of Workers Compensation Cost Containment" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq "Management has heard for decades that there is nothing they can do to control workers compensation costs, but that's a myth. The reality is companies can 'take control' of workers compensation just as easily as they take charge of other aspects of their company, by implementing tight procedures in their workplace when an injury occurs..." |
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"Beyond Occupational Medicine: Using a Medical Advisor to Bring Down Claims Costs" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq and David Dubin, MD "A physician can be one of the most effective tools available. Not in the role you may think of as an occupational physician or treating doctor but as a company medical director or medical advisor who reviews workers' compensation claim files ..." |
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"Claims and Litigation Management" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq "Managing claims and litigation is practically impossible without thorough account handling instructions...these represent the understanding between the insured and the adjusters..." |
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"Facing an Internal Affair" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq "Proper sleuthing can dig up a wealth of inefficiencies in a workers’ compensation program. Here is a guide for what to look for..." |
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"Treating the Whole Elephant" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq "To succeed in workers compensation cost reduction you need to see the whole "elephant." A well designed program can cut your workers compensation costs by 20% to 60%..." |
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"Before and After" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq "Employers get saddled with high workers' compensation costs when they have too many injuries that last too long. A program that can slash costs up to 50% or more..." |
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"Simplifying the Return-to-Work Maze" by Rebecca Shafer, Esq and Elizabeth Graham "Keeping an employee at work, the company can realize significant cost reductions in workers' compensation and long- and short-term disability..." |
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