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Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Intermediate

  • work Practice Area

    Employment and Workers Comp

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

  • schedule Time

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  • timer Program Length

    90 minutes

Credit Information

  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.

$197.00
CLE
ALL

This CLE webinar will provide a comprehensive overview of workers' comp issues unique to employers with remote employees. The expert panel will provide guidance on assisting clients to develop policies and procedures to define an employee's work environment and to handle workers' comp claims made by remote employees, taking into account multistate jurisdictional requirements. The panel will also offer best practices for investigating and defending such claims.

Faculty

Jason D. Lewis
Attorney
Chartwell Law Offices

Mr. Lewis concentrates his practice on workers’ compensation defense, representing large self-insured employers and construction companies through all aspects of litigation, from inception through trial and appeals. He is also well versed in general municipal law representing municipalities as well as numerous public sector unions on behalf of police, fire and correctional personnel with matters regarding Section 207(a) and 207(c) claims. 

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Neil A. Ambekar
Partner
Conroy Simberg

Mr. Ambekar is a partner in the firm’s Workers’ Compensation practice group. He exclusively represents employers and carriers in workers’ compensation matters, including appeals and subrogation issues. Mr. Ambekar is board certified in Workers’ Compensation Law by the Florida Bar, and rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell. He is the chair of the Florida Bar’s Workers’ Compensation Rules Advisory Committee and a member of the Workers’ Compensation Section Executive Council. Mr. Ambekar is also the secretary of the Judge William Wieland Inn of Court, and a former chair of the OCBA Workers’ Compensation Committee.

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Tyler Hembree
Attorney
McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLP

Mr. Hembree represents large and small employers, insurance carriers as well as third-party administrators in workers’ compensation matters in the firm’s Greenville office. Prior to joining MGC, he was a staff attorney at the South Carolina Court of Appeals, where he primarily handled appeals from the South Carolina Workers’ Compensation Commission.

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Description

The number of employees working remotely, either entirely or on a hybrid basis, continues to remain high even after the pandemic. With this trend comes employer challenges when employees are injured while on the job and working remotely, especially when remote workers may be in multiple states with unique requirements.

Counsel should understand how to best advise their clients on: (1) ensuring that remote employees are adequately covered by their workers' comp policies, (2) developing policies and procedures for defining an employee's work environment and for responding to remote employee injury claims, taking into account jurisdictional requirements, and (3) investigating and defending against workers' comp claims that may have occurred in an employee's remote work location.

Listen as our expert panel guides practitioners through unique workers' comp issues related to remote workers, including jurisdictional considerations, and offers best practices on how counsel can help their clients be prepared to respond to and defend against workers' comp claims made by remote employees.

Outline

  1. Introduction: the rise of remote working
  2. Injuries arising out of and in the course of employment
    1. Common types of remote injury claims
    2. Injuries resulting from a blend of work-related and personal activities
    3. Personal comfort doctrine
  3. Helping employers navigate workers' comp remote work issues
    1. Policy development
      1. Work from home policies
      2. Establishing remote employee work environment
      3. Reporting and handling remote injury claims
      4. Treatment
      5. Return to work
      6. Multistate considerations
    2. Workers' comp insurance coverage pointers
    3. Employer pitfalls to avoid
  4. Defending against remote employee claims
    1. Investigation challenges
  5. Case studies and case law examples
  6. Practitioner takeaways

Benefits

The panel will review these and other important considerations:

  • What are common injury claims made by remote employees?
  • How can counsel help clients create policies and procedures to put employers in the best position to defend against remote workers' injury claims?
  • What are issues unique to employers with remote workers in multiple states?
  • What are best practices for investigating and defending against injury claims made by remote employees?