Workers` Compensation

Workers’
Compensation
Executive Forum
Gateway to Relationships
Chase park plaza hotel
St. LouiS, Mo
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May 29-30, 2013
Early ConfErEnCE SponSorS
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Conference
overview
SIIA’s Annual Self-Insured Workers’
Compensation Executive Forum is
the country’s premier association
sponsored conference dedicated
exclusively to self-insured Workers’
Compensation. In addition to a strong
educational program focusing on
such topics as excess insurance and
risk management strategies, this event
will offer tremendous networking
opportunities that are specifically
designed to help you strengthen your
business relationships within the selfinsured/alternative risk transfer industry.
Expected Attendee Profile
St. Louis, Missouri:
Gateway to Relationships
Thanks to westward expansion, lewis and Clark and our
famous arch, St. louis, Missouri is known as the “Gateway to
the West.” Whether you’re headed westward to St. louis from
the East or joining us from other areas of this great country, we look forward
to hosting you at this year’s SIIa Conference, “Gateway to relationships.” The
insurance industry is a relationship business and the self-insurance sector is
certainly no exception. I encourage you to set aside your blogs, webinars and
e-mails, look up from your hand held devices, and join us in St. louis to shake
some hands and build relationships.
our conference venue is an historic gem, The Chase park plaza Hotel. Built in
1928 as the most expensive hotel of its time and having undergone a recent
$250,000,000 renovation, “The Chase is the place” (www.chaseparkplaza.com).
In addition to its place in the history books, St. louis looks to the future: We
are the nation’s capital with respect to workers’ compensation self-insurance,
as St. louis-based companies insure ten percent of the nation’s workforce.
as highlighted in a recent issue of Business Insurance, the excess workers’
compensation market is in a state of change. SIIa is pleased to report that
we have commitments from every excess workers’ compensation market that
they will join us in St. louis. Don’t miss out. you’ll find cutting-edge educational
opportunities, a great venue and a Thursday evening networking party.
p.S. plan to take friday to enjoy the best of St. louis: We are the proud home of
the country’s top ranked zoo, the fun and eclectic City Museum, and the World
Chess Hall of fame and club, all within minutes of The Chase park plaza. Catch a
game of baseball at Busch Stadium between the last two World Series champs on
friday night or lounge poolside at The Chase and enjoy the historic architecture.
Duke niedringhaus
Chairman Workers’ Compensation Committee
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• Group Self-Insured Workers’
Comp Fund Executives/Directors
• Workers’ Compensation Self-Insurers
• Third Party Administrators
• Excess Insurance Carrier/Reinsurers
• Attorneys, Accountants/Actuaries
• Risk Management Consultants
• Industry Service Providers
Fantastic Networking
Opportunities
The theme is “Gateway to
Relationships” as this conference will
bring together industry leaders from
across the country. Forget “virtual”
events and get back to actually
interacting with people who should
matter in your business world.
About SIIA
The Self-Insurance Institute of America,
Inc. (SIIA) is a national trade
association that represents companies
involved in the self-insurance/
alternative risk transfer marketplace.
Additional information about the
association can be accessed on-line
at www.siia.org, or by calling
800/851-7789.
Hotel Accommodations
Hotel reservations must be made directly with the hotel.
Chase Park Plaza Hotel
212-232 N. Kingshighway Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63108
Reservations (877) 587-2427
Please call between 8:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m. Central Time
SIIA has negotiated a special discounted room rate of $189 per night plus
taxes that is only available to conference registrants. Early reservations are
strongly advised. The room block for the special group rate ends May 8, 2013.
Reservations made after May 8, 2013, will be made on a space and rate
availability basis only.
Cancellation Policy
Written Cancellation received on or before April 26, 2013, will receive a refund of
50% of the registration fee. Due to hotel and staffing commitments, all registrations
and cancellations received after April 26, 2013 and all no-shows are not eligible
for a refund. However, substitutions are permitted in advance and on-site.
Attire
Dress for this year’s forum is business casual.
Special Services
If you are not a member of SIIA and would like to save money on registration
and sponsorship fees, please contact SIIA Headquarters at 800.851.7789 or
visit www.siia.org.
Membership Information
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and sponsorship fees, please contact SIIA Headquarters at 800.851.7789 or
visit www.siia.org.
Questions
Should you have any questions about this year’s forum, please call
SIIA headquarters at 800.851.7789.
Schedule
at a glance
Wednesday,
May 29, 2013
2:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m
Educational Sessions
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Welcome Reception
Thursday,
May 30, 2013
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Networking Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Educational Sessions
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Networking Break
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Educational Sessions
12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Hosted Luncheon
1:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Educational Sessions
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Cocktail Hour
Dinner on Own
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
2:00 p.m.
Welcome Remarks
2:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Good, Bad and Ugly
“The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” is an interactive panel discussion on a
variety of case scenarios depicting aspects of a workers’ compensation claim
that most industry experts would view as a “Bad or Ugly” decision, report,
medical evaluation, treatment, etc. The role of this multi-disciplined panel is to
comment on the “Bad or Ugly” scenario and discuss what should have been
done (“The Good”). The panelists are all highly respected members of their
respective professions.
SpeakeRS
Lyndon Gross, M.D., Ph.D.
John Krause, M.D.
Orthopedic Surgeon
Orthopedic Surgeon
Patricia Hurford, M.D.
James Coyle, M.D.
Physical Medicine & Rehab
Spinal Orthopedic Surgeon
Michael Banahan, J.D.
John J. Larsen, J.D.
Sr. Partner, Defense Attorney
Evans and Dixon
Plaintiff Attorney
Larsen & Hess Cheryl Kane
3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Educational
Sessions
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
excess Work Comp Carrier Claim partnerships:
Don’t just make a 911 call for a catastrophic
claim, make them your new BFF
Utilizing the Claim Expertise of Your Excess Workers’ Compensation carrier: Our
claims panel discussion will discuss strategies for claim managers to leverage
their excess carrier partnership beyond the required claim reporting requirements.
Approximately 90% of all excess Work Comp claims slowly develop over 5-10
years. Learn how your excess carrier can help not only for catastrophic claims but to
identify early strategies to utilize for claims that may have adverse loss development.
SpeakeRS
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Networking Break
Mark Sidney
Mitch Neuhaus
Vice President of Claims
Vice President - Claims
Midwest Employers Casualty Co. Safety National
Mary Faith Green
Lynn Rogers, RN, CCM
Team Manager
Broadspire
Area Manager II
Broadspire, FMC
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Don’t Let Age Become a Statistic: What
Every Employer Needs to Know About Older
Employees and Loss Prevention
share how MECC collaborates with
business partners to manage opioid
costs and improve the quality of life
for the injured employee.
The injury and cause of loss profiles change dramatically as employees become
older. Where younger people have strain and overexertion injuries, older
employees have slip, trip and fall injuries. Even the predominant causes of motor
vehicle accidents change with age, and as accident frequency declines with
age, severity increases. The session will outline for employers how to develop
age sensitive loss control, safety training, and career development programs. The
presentation will highlight three case studies and focus on on-the-job accidents,
but will also look at other aspects of auto and general liability.
SpeakerS
SPEAKEr
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Networking Break
Gary T. Anderberg, Ph.D.
Practice Leader, Analytics and Outcomes
Broadspire
Risk Innovator Award Winner
5:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Welcome reception
Thursday, May 30, 2013
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Networking Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Keynote Address
Let’s Talk Tornadoes – The Destruction and
the recovery of Joplin
On May 22, 2011 Joplin, Missouri suffered the costliest tornado in U.S. history
with peak winds of approximately 250 mph. Learn how the City of Joplin has
dealt with the destruction and the inspiring story of the “butterfly people”.
SPEAKEr
Reba Snavely
Former Director of Human Resources
and Risk Management
City of Joplin
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Different Expert Perspectives on Opioids
and Workers’ Compensation
Sponsored by PMSI
The use of opioids has become a costly and concerning trend nationwide and
is particularly difficult to manage in the Workers’ Compensation system. Even
though opioids can be highly addictive, five out of the top fifteen most commonly
prescribed drugs in Workers’ Compensation are opioids. While intended
primarily for acute care and end of life pain management, long term use is
common within the workers’ compensation system. Hear from one who has first
hand experience with this issue as she became heavily dependent upon opioids
while recovering from an injury. She is no longer dependent upon opioids and
will share the story of how opioids affected her life. Our second speaker will
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Individual Who Has Overcome
Opioid Addiction
Marcos A. Iglesias, M.D.
Medical Director
Midwest Employers
Casualty Company
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Is It Worth It to
Construct & Maintain
a WC ppO Network or
Should Self-Insurers
Identify and Try to
avoid Cost Intensive
a
providers?
Many Self-Insured Programs continue
to rely on the traditional PPO network
model of driving medical care based
on achieving in-network PPO provider/
facility discounts. Alternatively a few
enlightened Work Comp program
leaders have engaged strategies that
drive improved total claim costs by
engaging outcome based medical
analytics. Learn how you can learn
to reduce total costs while providing
high quality care & treatment for your
employees while achieving better total
cost outcomes. If you are looking for
cutting edge strategies to differentiate
the quality of care and improve the
results of your WC program, this
session will provide you with solutions.
Sponsored by MedMetrics®.
Educational Breakout Sessions
Speaker
Edward J. Bernacki, M.D., MPH
Professor of Medicine Director,
Division of Occupational Medicine
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Executive Director, Health, Safety and Environment
The Johns Hopkins Health System and University
12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Hosted Luncheon
1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
BrEakOUTa: Healthyemployees
Mean Healthierproductivity
Chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease and obesity are not just the
problems for your health plan, they also affect your Workers’ Compensation
program.Discover how telehealth technology combined with the “human
touch” can decrease your combined health and Work Comp costs, reduce
absenteeism, and increase productivity.
Speaker
Randy Gardner
4G Biometrics
1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
BrEakOUTB: Taking Your Claims from Good to Great
This session will provide significant insight into the practices and innovations that
can make a big impact on your claims outcomes. During this session, Mr. Walls,
who has participated in hundreds of claims audits, will share his opinion on the
best practices on a number of claims handling functions, and also discuss some
innovations that have the potential to make a huge impact on claims costs.
Speaker
Mark Walls
Vice President – Claims
Safety National
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
BrEakOUTC: Union Carve Out
and Other Uniqueprograms
Unions have acknowledged that with rising workers’ compensation costs and a
weak economy that they can help increase employment of their membership by
helping management cut costs. Unions have been collectively bargaining with
management to employ carve outa
out Drprograms, in several states. Some of these
unions are even agreeable to sharing in the cost of the program, like one captive
program, which highlights the importance of reducing accidents and injuries. Our
panel of speakers, who work with union programs across several different states,
will explore the history, operation, and success of these programs, and how these
programs may be of even greater value to the self-insured employer.
SpeakerS
City Museum
Donald McCully
Marc R. Poulos
Vice President Sales
Executive Director and Counsel
roundstone Management, Ltd. Indiana, Illinois and Iowa
Foundation for Fair Contracting
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1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Breakout D: Tips and Tactics - A Guide to
Executive Safety Management
this session will explore what it takes from top Management in order to initiate
and lead an engaging and successful safety effort. Gain useful tips and tactics
to make a more of an impact within the organization and make safety consistent
from top to bottom. Discover the payback from implementation of these risk
management techniques and realize how important the driving force is!
SpEAkErS
John Primozich, CSP, ARM
Terry S. Buckhout
Loss Control Manager
regional aVP
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the Builders Group of Minnesota Meadowbrook/tPa
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2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Networking Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Breakout e: Self-Insured Group panel Discussion
You won’t want to miss our annual SIG panel discussion as we focus on some
of the biggest issues facing SIG’s. adverse loss development, competing in
a changing market, surviving significant regulatory issues in New York and
California, Joint and Several collection and board governance. add a firming
excess Work Comp market and there is no shortage of major issues to discuss.
Learn how some of the premier SIG managers manage their programs.
SpEAkErS
Terry Duke
David Johnson
agComp
Self-Insurance Fund (SIF)
Corporate Counsel
Self Insured Solutions
Edward G. Wright
New York Lumbermen’s
Insurance trust Fund
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Breakout F:
Solutions are Plentiful,
Leadership is Scarce
Most stakeholders feels the WC
system needs fixing. Many have
opinions that are almost always based
on blaming one party or another
--- politicians, doctors, managed care
vendors, lawyers, insurance companies,
claims administrators and injured
employees. Criticism is well deserved
on many fronts, but fixing blame will
not fix the system. the incentives driving
the decision makers of the various
stakeholders are skewed and foster
bad outcomes at a high cost. We
now have the knowledge we need to
make changes that tip the Workers’
Compensation cost curve in the right
direction. Solutions are plentiful, but
leadership to align the incentives in the
system and drive processes that work
is lacking. In this session, participants
will learn actions they can take
immediately to improve the quality of
care for injured employees, increase
productivity, and reduce costs.
SPeaker
Frank Pennachio
the WorkComp
Educational Breakout Sessions
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
BrEakouT G: What can self-insured Workers’
Comp payers learn from the self-insured Group
health World?
over the past several years, there has been tremendous innovation taking place
within the self-insured group health care marketplace, resulting in significant cost
savings for plan sponsors. While workers’ comp programs differ from group
health plans in many ways, there are numerous things workers’ compensation
self-insurers can learn from their largely more sophisticated “cousins.” This session
will identify key group health plan cost savings strategies that can used to control
the costs of workers’ compensation claims.
speakers
Jennifer Christian, M.D., MPH
Jason Davis
president
Webility Corporation
Vice president, u.S. Division
Global Excel Management, Inc.
Carrie Hatch
David Iskowe
ameriBen
founder and Chairman
EnableComp
Robert Jackson
Coo
Stratose, Inc.
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
BrEakouT H: Captive insurance strategies
for Group health risks
This session will provide an overview of how captive insurance can be used in
conjunction with self-insured group health plans, both on an individual company and
group association basis, to help control costs while allowing for more robust benefit
offerings. a leading expert on this subject will discuss common structures and provide
case study profile of various health care (stop-loss) captives currently in operation.
speaker
Andrew Cavenagh
president
pareto Captive Services, llC
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Cocktail hour
Dinner on own
9:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m.
Conference party
planning on staying for the weekend? The Cardinals are playing the
San francisco Giants at Busch Stadium friday May 31.
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Workers’
Compensation
Executive Forum
Gateway to Relationships
Chase park plaza hotel
St. LouiS, Mo
•
May 29-30, 2013
p.o. Box 1237
Simpsonville, SC 29681
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800.851.7789