Settlements, Offsets and Set-Asides

By Angelo Paul Sevarino

This complete and indispensable and all-inclusive reference guide is essential for the workers' compensation, personal injury or social security practitioner as well as the insurance professional and structured settlement specialists negotiating and drafting settlements of workers’ compensation or personal injury claims with concurrent Social Security Disability, Supplemental Security Income, Medicare or Medicaid coverage.

This authoritative text provides extensive citations and references to key statutes, case law, rules and regulations and will become an invaluable desk reference you'll want to refer to often. The practitioner will learn what Social Security benefits are subject to offset, when workers' compensation settlement proceeds can and cannot "offset" social security type benefits; the various methods used to calculate and mitigate offset impact; when a referral of a settlement to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is necessary; what the various types of Medicare Set-aside Mechanisms are available; what criteria is used to determine and consider Medicare’s "interest"; and what Medicare's recovery rights are and who is responsible for repayment.

Topics Include:

• Client interview techniques and file development 
• SSA/CMS Program changes
• Social Security Disability/Supplemental Security Income 
• SSDI/SSI eligibility criteria and evaluation 
• Medicare/Medicaid eligibility criteria and evaluation
• Third-party civil actions and offsets/set-asides
• Collateral Benefits not subject to Offset
• Excludable expenses and proration examples
• Offset calculations with examples
• Settlement types subject of Offset
• Evidentiary rules
• Medicare Secondary Payer Rules and Regulations
• Medicare "Liens" and rights of recovery- compromising or waiver
• Medicare/Medicaid repayment obligations
• Medicare Set-aside Mechanisms, drafting and contract provisions
• Special Needs or Supplemental Needs Trusts
• CMS referral for Medicare Set-aside approval
• CMS criteria for Medicare Set-aside Mechanisms
• Amending/Opening a settlement
• Appeals
• Sample Forms and Guides

Price:  $225.00 plus shipping and handling

To order Settlements, Offsets and Set-Asides contact:

Atlantic Law Book Company
22 Grassmere Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06110
860-231-9300   fax 860-231-9242       

Connecticut Workers' Compensation After Reforms
Third Edition
By Angelo Paul Sevarino
Board Certified Workers' Compensation Specialist

Now in its 3 ^rd Edition this comprehensive definitive two volume text will assist you in advising your client, whether a claimant, insurance company, self-insured employer, managed medical care provider or union representative in the latest developments in the field of workers' compensation law.

Throughout the text you'll find reliable and updated references to applicable statutes, regulations, public act legislative changes and case law. This reference guide provides you under one title references to thousands of CRB, Superior, Appellate and Supreme Court cases which are annually updated to keep you current .

This is the definitive reference to the who, what, when, where and why of workers' compensation law as practiced in the State of Connecticut and is referenced by the various Workers' Compensation Commissioners and cited by the Appellate and Supreme Court.

Basic precepts, substantive and procedural guidelines, checklists, forms and motion practice are all contained in an easy to read post binder which will be updated by replacement pages on an annual basis.

Summary of Contents

-Important legislative changes to keep you current	-Penalties, sanctions, interest and attorney's fees
-Getting through the managed medical care maze	-Notice of Claim, Form 30C
-Disclaimer, Form 43, Motion to Preclude	-Discontinuance of benefits, Form 36
-Fraud	-Wrongful discharge
-ADA, CCHRO/EEOC claims	-Family Medical Leave Act
-Informal, Formal hearings - practice and procedure	-Appeals - from Petition and beyond
-Employee v. Independent Contractor	-Exclusivity and Third Party actions
-Developing the medical case	-Investigation and development of the claim
-Second Injury Fund	-Connecticut Guarentee Fund
-State/Municipal special benefits	-Heart and Hypertension benefits
-Stress Claims	-Rehabilitation, physical and vocational
-Stipulations and Commutations	-Social Security/SSI/Medicare/Medicaid Offsets
-Medicare Set Aside/Special Needs Trusts	-Intervention, Subrogation and Liens
-Child Support/Alimony considerations	-Structured settlements/Valuation of case
-Regulations	-Practice checklists, forms and motion practice
-Bankruptcy	-The Chair, Commissioners and Advisory Board

To order Connecticut Workers' Compensation After Reforms Third Edition please contact:

Atlantic Law Book Company
22 Grassmere Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06110
860-231-9300 fax 860-231-9242

Price: $275 plus shipping and handling