Individual Telephone Seminars - Training Resources

Powers of Attorney: Medical Records Release Concerns ...e to release patient information pertaining to a deceased individual? Do family members have the right to authorize the release of records to third parties? This teleconference will educate you on how to identify a valid power of attorney to determine whether information should be disclosed. Additional discussions will be held on other issues surrounding access to patient health information  more...

Techniques to Prepare for Difficult Employee Discussions ...dults like adults - all while shifting responsibility for individual improvement away from the company and back to the employee - where it belongs in the first place. More important, we'll develop a structured model and framework that will allow you deliver even the most difficult messages while treating people with dignity and respect at all times. Human resource managers, benefits and  more...

Construction Joint Ventures: Benefits and Pitfalls ... marketing opportunities and organizational assets of the individual joint venturers, thereby enabling the joint venture to obtain and successfully complete larger, more complex projects than those the joint venturers could undertake individually. Construction joint ventures are excellent vehicles for combining various disciplines for a particular project and for including MBE, WBE and DBE  more...

Hot Wage and Hour Issues: Assuring Proper Exempt and Nonexempt Classification of Your Employees ...individual and class action overtime claims based on the alleged misclassification of exempt workers at a fever pitch. Thousands of lawsuits asserting violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act or parallel state laws are filed each year and the costs of defending these matters and the damages claimed and paid, whether through trial or settlement, are staggering. These cases frequently involve  more...

Design Professionals' Exposure for Design Errors and Omissions ...e on greater risk and liability than ever before. For the individual responsible for identifying and evaluating risk for design professionals on a project-by-project basis, complex issues concerning measure of damages, insurance and other potential sources of risk must be understood and examined on every project. This teleconference will identify the areas of greatest risk, and address how  more...

The Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act: Application to Condominiums and Single Family Homes ...tion, is a common error of developers and exposes them to individual rescission actions and sometimes class action suits on a broad scale. Finally, the issue of piggyback exemptions will be explored and discussed. Whether to defend against rescission for sales already made or to increase the chance of compliant future sales, this teleconference is critical for strengthening ILSA compliance to  more...

Employee Safety and Health Systems: Cutting Injuries Using the Team Approach ... a small number of employees and are often managed by the individual responsible for the facility safety and health system. The problem is that the success of the committee, and thus the system success, is predicated by the authority given to the committee and its leadership which in most cases is low to nonexistent. The bottom line is that employee safety will be as good as management wants it  more...

8 Issues When Doing Business or Contracting With Native American Tribes ... jurisdiction and waivers, if any, of sovereign immunity. Individuals and entities seeking to do business with and/or contract with one or more tribes must become familiar with the laws and regulations of each tribe when preparing to engage in business with the tribe. However, there are also basic tenets of American Indian law that can be applied to all aspects of doing business and/or  more...

Medicare Secondary Payer Act - Protecting Medicare's Interest in Insurance Settlements ...interpretation in its manuals and policies. We'll address individual areas of law separately as to the manner in which the MSP applies in each. Most significantly, you'll learn about workers' compensation settlements, as CMS is most actively monitoring them and has established policies with respect to addressing past and future medical expenses in the settlement of claims. We'll address  more...

Wellness Programs: Legal Developments, Requirements and Risks ...regulators take the position that wellness programs erode individual rights. Despite the regulatory uncertainties, more employers than ever are looking to wellness programs to control health insurance costs. Some employers are providing incentives to employees who participate in wellness programs, follow disease management protocols or choose to live healthy lifestyles. Other employers are  more...

Making Revisions to Closed Medical Records ...most sensitive and personal information that exists about individuals in modern society, and some closed records may need revision because of new information received or because of the requests of individuals to correct or modify existing information. When is it appropriate to make revisions, how and under what circumstances, and at whose request? This teleconference will enable health  more...

Understanding the Role and Powers of the Trust Protector nThink of how far society and trusts have evolved in just the last 100 years. How can we anticipate what changes lie ahead of us from both a tax and nontax perspective? Is the movement towards multigenerational trusts pushing the planning horizon many years past the point most estate planners were trained to envision? This teleconference will identify those unintended consequences and discuss how  more...

Enforcing Arbitration Agreements: 14 Penn Plaza and Other Recent Developments in Arbitration of Statutory Employment Claims ...ld that a union-negotiated arbitration agreement can bind individual employees to arbitrate statutory age discrimination claims. This decision continues the trend of enforcing agreements to arbitrate employment discrimination claims. 14 Penn Plaza should cause all legal professionals to consider the advantages of agreements to arbitrate statutory claims - whether in the union or individual  more...

Green Leases: Negotiating Renewals and Direct Leases Under Sustainability Mandates ...tal concerns. Now the movement is heading toward tracking individual carbon usage. Green building leases need to be drafted and negotiated to protect the landlords and the tenants as sustainability programs are implemented. These green leases need to address provisions such as those dealing with the initial construction of tenant improvements, alterations, operating expenses, insurance,  more...

Employee Retaliation: Supreme Court Update ...est decision recognizes a retaliation claim brought by an individual of any race, who suffers an adverse action as a result of attempting to help another employee who has been directly subjected to racial bias. Additionally, the current presidential administration has expressed a heightened interest in workplace fairness issues which not only is likely to lead to more employee-friendly  more...

Medical Privacy Rights of Minors ...e complexity increases dramatically. When the right of an individual to privacy and security with regard to his or her medical information runs into the rights of the individual's parents to control the medical care delivered to their minor child, the caregiver is often caught in the middle. This teleconference will outline the rights of the minor to medical privacy and the ways those rights  more...

Internet Techniques for Locating Lost Relatives nMany professionals are called upon to locate lost relatives of clients or patients. Attend this teleconference and learn the methodology, strategies and techniques that can lead to successfully locating the lost relative. Each search is unique. One always begins by establishing the goal - who needs to be located; determining what is known - the identifiers; and creating a basic research plan.  more...