More than 1,000 attendees and 200 exhibitors will visit Lakeside Center at McCormick Place in Chicago for the 12th annual National Workers’ Compensation and Disability Conference & Exhibit, Nov. 19-20. Chicago-area residents working in workers’-compensation or disability-related industries are invited to attend the exhibit — free.
Conference organizers Risk & Insurance Magazine and LRP Publications are offering free passes to the exhibit hall. To reserve one, call (800) 727-1227 or visit the , click on “Register,” then click on “Exhibit Only.”
Exhibitors include StrataCare, a bill-review software company; Specialty Risk Services, a firm that manages specialty-insurance programs, and Corvel, a provider of managed-care services. Other vendors will share details on their products and services relating to claims and disability management, ergonomic solutions, healthcare management, injury prevention, return-to-work services, safety products and programs, and vocational rehabilitation.
The paid-registration conference portion runs Nov. 19-21 and features speakers from insurance companies, consulting groups, law firms and other organizations discussing challenges and solutions on bioterroism, catastrophic loss, HIPAA, SARS, the nation’s aging workforce, increased fraud, and more.
Highlights include keynote speeches by Richard Pimentel, senior partner, Milt Wright & Associates, Chatsworth, Calif., and Richard Palczynski, group senior vice president and chief actuary at The Hartford, as well as sessions on workers’ compensation and the ADA, employee absence programs, and coping with disgruntled employees.
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