Remote Employees and Workers’ Comp Challenges: Defining the Work Environment, Defending Claims, Multistate Issues
A live 90-minute CLE video webinar with interactive Q&A
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.
Outline
- Introduction: the rise of remote working
- Employer obligation to provide safe working environment
- When the home is a secondary work site (hybrid employment)
- Injuries arising out of and in the course of employment
- Common types of remote injury claims
- Injuries resulting from a blend of work-related and personal activities
- Personal comfort doctrine
- Helping employers navigate workers' comp remote work issues
- Policy development
- Work from home policies
- Establishing remote employee work environment
- Reporting and handling remote injury claims
- Treatment
- Return to work
- Multistate considerations
- Workers' comp insurance coverage pointers
- Employer pitfalls to avoid
- Policy development
- Defending against remote employee claims
- Investigation challenges
- Case studies and case law examples
- 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?
Faculty
Neil A. Ambekar
Partner
Conroy Simberg
Mr. Ambekar is a partner in the firm’s Workers’ Compensation practice group. He exclusively represents... | Read More
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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Jason D. Lewis
Attorney
The Chartwell Law Offices
Mr. Lewis concentrates his practice on workers’ compensation defense, representing large self-insured employers... | Read More
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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