NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SELF INSURERS
2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Saturday, June 3, 2017
3:00pm – 6:00pm
NCSI Executive Committee Meeting
Sunday, June 4, 2017
10:00am
NCSI Committee Meetings (as called)
12:00pm – 5:00pm
Meeting Registration
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Meeting of the State Self-Insurers Associations Administrators
Open Roundtable Discussion
2:30pm – 3:30pm
State Associations’ Presentation
Freshening Up & Reinventing Ourselves – Marketing & Rebranding Efforts
Buz Minor, Ohio Self-Insurers Association
Kris Tefft, Washington Self-Insurers Association
6:30pm
President’s Reception
Monday, June 5, 2017
7:30am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30am
Call to Order & Election of Board of Managers
9:00am
Around the Country … in Just One Hour
10:00am
Break
10:15am
State of the Market: NCCI Reports
Jeff Eddinger, NCCI
11:00am
Analytics Overload! How Much is Too Much?
Niki T. Ingram, Shareholder
Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin
11:45am
Recess
12:00pm
LUNCH PRESENTATION
California Workers’ Compensation Since SB 863
Christine Baker, Director
California Department of Industrial Relations
1:30pm
The Humanization of Workers’ Compensation
Michael Marsh
Midland Claims Services, Inc., Industrial Injury Claims
2:45pm
OSHA’s New Record Keeping Rules:
How They are Impacting Post-Injury Drug Testing
George Goodman, Partner
Cummins, Goodman, Denley & Vickers
3:15pm
Medicare Update: SPARC, Liability Claim Enforcement, and Other Issues
David Farber, Attorney at Law
King & Spaulding
4:15pm
Adjournment
4:30pm
Board of Managers Meeting
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
7:30am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
7:30am
Executive Committee Breakfast Roundtable with the State Self-Insurance Guaranty
Fund Attendees (Open Roundtable Discussion)
8:30am
PANEL – Just How Secure are Security/Guaranty Fund Liabilities?
OH, CA, AR, OK
Dan Sovocool, California Security Fund
Loyd Hudson, Ohio Self-Insurers Association
Dave Walter, Arkansas Workers’ Compensation Commission
Barney Welch, Associated Industries, Oklahoma Guaranty Fund
9:15am
Securing the Security: Avoiding Losses Through Credit Risk Monitoring
Christophe Letondot, Marsh USA
Brian Weitzman, Marsh USA
10:00am
Break
10:30am
Return to Health, Then Return to Work: United Airlines’ Return to Health Mindset
Joan Vincenz, Managing Director, Workers’ Compensation Programs
United Airlines
11:15am
Costco’s Innovative Return to Work Programs
Carolyn Horton
Costco Wholesale
12:00pm
Luncheon
1:15pm
Psych Issues: Trends, Technical Issues (the law), & Treatment
Jennifer Wolf Horejsh, Executive Director, IAIABC
Dr. Teresa Bartlett, Medical Director, Sedgwick
2:00pm
PANEL – Methods to Reduce & Mitigate Medical Costs from a Legal Perspective
Moderator: Michelle LaFayette, Ganan & Shapiro
Russell Fenton, Aplin & Ringsmuth
Stewart Reubens, Stander Reubens Thomas & Kinsey
Ramona St. George-Suing, Majoris Health Systems
2:45pm
A Change Brewing: Full Collateralization of High Deductible Programs
Barbara Cox, Senior VP for Legal & Regulatory Affairs
National Conference of Insurance Guaranty Funds
3:15pm
Recess
3:00pm
NCSI Committee Meetings (as called)
5:00pm
Adjournment
6:45pm
Reception
7:30pm – 10:00pm
Dinner, Presentations & Entertainment
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
9:00am
Adjournment Breakfast
9:45am
BREAKFAST PRESENTATION
The Impact on Workers’ Compensation of the
Final Silica Standard Adopted by OSHA
Dr. Howard Sandler
Sandler Occupational Medicine Associates (SOMA)
11:00am
Close of Meeting