Mark Your Calendar: 2007 Workers' Comp Forum Scheduled

Illinois House Bill 2137 was enacted a year ago with the goal of controlling rising workers' comp costs for employers, improving employee workers' comp benefits and to combat workers' comp fraud. This was the first major reform to the state's workers' comp system in over 20 years, but has it delivered as promised? Have employers realized savings and has the business climate in the state improved? The Second Annual Illinois Workers' Comp Forum 2007 will present answers to these and other crucial questions.

In addition to an impressive group of presenters, the 2007 Forum will create multiple opportunities for meeting and networking with colleagues and industry experts who are also facing challenges on these important issues, as well as top organizations who will provide attendees with proven tactics that have been successful in their workers' comp programs.

"The Illinois Workers' Comp Forum puts the entire Illinois workers' comp system under a microscope and shows organizations the strategies to protect their bottom line." states Michael Fitton, Director of Marketing for the Council. "It also offers the chance to interact with leading workers' comp suppliers who will showcase innovative solutions and provide practical advice on controlling workers' comp costs."

Strategies will be taught on how to put practices into place to successfully get employees back on the job as fast as possible and keep them moving toward full productivity. Also, discover how the University of Chicago Hospital dramatically reduced the number of employees out on workers' comp from an average of 50-75 to 10 and how organizations have saved more than $1 million a year on costs attributable to back injury. Workers' comp statutes which established criminal penalties for all types of workers' comp fraud, including employee fraud, employer fraud and medical provider fraud, and how it affects business will also be reviewed.

Among the presenters scheduled to appear are:

Senator Kwame Raoul
Illinois Senate

Dennis Ruth
Chairman, Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission

Christopher Gibbons
Shareholder, Nyhan, Pfisther, Bambrick, Kinzie & Lowry, P.C.
Executive Secretary. Illinois Self-Insurers Assoc.
2007 Illinois Workers' Comp Forum Program Chair

Jay Dee Shattuck, CAE
President, Shattuck & Associates Consulting, Inc.
2007 Workers' Comp Forum Program Chair

The event will be held in Chicago on March 14-15, 2007. More information is available at http://www.ilwcforum.com

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