California Workers' Comp Forum:
Receive vital legislative and case law updates and proven cost-containment solutions from leading industry experts.  Some of the session topics include:  Workers’ Comp Case Law Updates; Innovative Cost-Control Strategies; New Workers’ Comp Legislation; Combating Fraud; Return-to-Work Programs; Claims Management Tactics; Untangling the FMLA, ADA and Workers' Comp Web; Health & Wellness Programs; Risk Management Best Practices; and Workplace Accident Investigations.  This is an event every Workers’ Compensation, Risk Management, Health, Safety, Insurance, and Human Resource professional should attend.

3i Interpreting
National Document Center
338 South Melrose Drive
Vista, CA  92081
800-311-6289

www.wow3i.com

Since 1986, 3i has been assisting clients with appropriate use of language services to improve claims operations, medical outcomes and human resource matters. We have consistently reduced language service cost and improved customer service. That’s our responsibility, but more important, our commitment!

Burns, White & Hickton, LLC
Four Northshore Center
106 Isabella Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
412-995-3171

www.bwhllc.com

Burns, White & Hickton, LLC prepares both Workers' Compensation and Liability Medicare Set-Asides throughout the United States.  Our services include a two-week turnaround time, professional legal services, verifications, educational services, and strategic settlement consultations, which are geared toward cost containment. We assist clients from the start of a claim, throughout the various stages of settlement, to final approval. We are committed to assisting clients reach final settlement of claims.  Our Medicare Attorneys understand what is needed to help meet the end goal of claim settlement and in this capacity act as an advocate to the claims adjuster, both Workers' Compensation and Liability, to help meet this goal.

Frasco Investigative Services
Richard Smith, Vice President
215 W. Alameda Ave.
Burbank, CA 91502
818-848-3888
richard@frasco.com

www.frasco.com

Frasco® Investigative Services is a full-service investigation corporation, specializing in all areas of insurance defense, including AOE/COE, surveillance, statements & interviews, activities checks, clinic audits, liability, trial prep, and fraud. Frasco® is an industry leader in both stability and longevity with 11 offices throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, and the Midwest and Eastern Regions.

Future Industrial Technologies
4930 Cervato Way
Santa Barbara, CA  93111
805-967-2485

www.backsafe.com

Future Industrial Technologies, Inc. (F.I.T.) is a leader in workplace injury prevention. F.I.T. works with private and public entities of all sizes throughout the U.S. and Canada to prevent claims before they occur. F.I.T. has made dramatic breakthroughs in how to change employee behavior that has resulted in dramatic reductions of expensive sprain/strain injuries. Backsafe® combines biomechanics, ergonomics, stretching, and discoveries in how to train employees, that results in a change of physical behavior at work and in life. Sittingsafe® teaches employees how to adapt any workstation to be ergonomically correct specifically for their body types and how to stretch away physical stress common with office personnel.

GSG Associates, Inc.
46 W. Dayton St.
Pasadena, CA 91105
866-808-GSGA (4742)

www.gsga.net

GSG provides premier service programs in Medical and Disability Management, Utilization/Peer Review, Nurse Case management, Absence Management, Integrated Management and Return to Work that produce excellent outcomes while maintaining appropriate care.   GSG works with Insurers, Self-insured/administered entities, and TPAs to create programs that fit our clients’ specific needs. GSG can also partner with Bill Review organizations, TPAs and other providers to create Best-in-Class solutions for our clients. The executive staff of GSG has over 70 years of cumulative experience in occupational and non-occupational medical Utilization Review, Disability Management and Absence Management. GSG offers programs encompassing Medical and Disability Management, Absence Management, Nurse Advocacy programs and has always customized our programs to meet our clients’ needs.

GSG is a certified Women's Business Enterprise (WBE), a certified Small Business Enterprise(SBE), and is accredited by URAC for Workers’ Compensation Utilization Management.

Heffernan Insurance Brokers
1350 Carlback Avenue, #200
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
800-234-6787

www.heffgroup.com

Heffernan Insurance Brokers, formed in 1988, is one of the largest independent insurance brokerage firms in the United States. Heffernan provides comprehensive insurance and financial services products to a wide range of businesses and individuals. Headquartered in Walnut Creek, California, Heffernan has additional offices in San Francisco, Petaluma, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, and Orange, California; Portland, Oregon; Plantation, Florida and West Palm Beach, Florida. Heffernan Insurance Brokers was named the Second Best Place to Work in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times and Silicon Valley Business Journal and East Bay Business Times in 2008, and was named the 9th Largest Independent Broker in the U.S. by Insurance Journal in 2008.

Medcor
P.O. Box 550
McHenry, IL 60050
815-363-9500

www.medcor.com

Medcor helps businesses reduce workers' compensation claims and costs. Medcor provides innovative clinical interventions to injured employees at the time of incident. Services include: Injury Triage & Reporting; On-site Medical Staff, Systems & Software; Drug Testing & Employee Screening.

Medcor's services are available 24/7 nationwide for worksites of any size in any industry. Patent pending systems reduce unnecessary claims. Medcor's flexible services work with any insurance carrier, broker, TPA, or provider network, and provide instant reporting, secure data on-line, real-time language translation and outstanding customer service. Employers enjoy lower costs and claims.  In network utilization is increased.   Workers report high satisfaction.

Professional Dynamics, Inc.
P.O. Box 1090
Rancho Cordova, CA 95741
916-438-1332

www.professionaldynamics.com

PDI has been providing managed care services for over 25 years, focusing on Utilization/Peer Review, Case Management, MPN Administration, Chemical Dependency Management, Bill Review, and customer specific On-Site Programs. Our organization’s goal is to produce the best quality outcomes with the highest dollar savings. We are a nationally certified WBE organization, and certified as a DBE in the State of California.

Remedy Interactive
One Harbor Drive, Suite 200
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-332-6433

www.remedyinteractive.com

Remedy Interactive's software reduces workers' compensation costs by automating corporate injury prevention processes. Our approach, more comprehensive and flexible than all others, helps you to identify, mitigate, and track issues related to corporate ergonomic risk. This software suite is the only ergonomics software proven to reduce costs.

Media Partner:

Standard Publishing Corporation
155 Federal St.
Boston 02110
800-682-5759

www.spcpub.com

Standard Publishing Corporation, publishers of the monthly Workers Compensation Outlook and the quarterly Journal of Workers Compensation, has been providing information to insurance and risk professionals since 1865. In each of our workers compensation publications you gain valuable insights into which tools and methods are reducing the economic and personal costs associated with workplace injury, and what you can do to make your program a success. Contact us today for a risk-free review of our publications, www.spcpub.com, (800) 682-5759.

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Workers' Compensation Resource Guide
400 S. Beverly Drive, Suite 214
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
877-WCRG-411

www.workcompresourceguide.com

The acclaimed Workers' Compensation Resource Guide is the premier source of information for workers' compensation professionals. Our biannual West Coast publication includes the following information:

• Complete listing of insurance companies, TPAs, and self-insured employers for CA, NV, AZ, OR and WA
• Listing of professional associations, conferences and events (includes a month-by-month calendar)
• Service provider information (including a comprehensive listing of attorneys, investigators, and more!)
• Up-to-date California case law synopsis

Updated twice a year – July and December – the Workers' Compensation Resource Guide is any comp professional's essential desk reference. The Guide is a comprehensive, single-glance resource broken down by topic and is an incredible source for finding and identifying the entire workers' comp professional community.