Legal Services
- Legal and Medical Administration of Workers' Compensation "Carve-Outs"
- Add ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution)
- For more than a decade, California Law has allowed coalitions of unions and employers to carve-out alternative ways to deliver benefits rather than using the current state workers’ compensation system. These carve-outs were meant to allow you to alter and therefore avoid the current adversarial processes that permeate your workers’ compensation program and individual claims.
- Industrial Relations Coalition (IRC) is a subsidiary of MEDEX Healthcare who has the unique experience and expertise in both Labor-Management consulting and California Workers’ Compensation to assist you in developing a plan to resolve your Workers’ Compensation problems and achieve your goals. And while IRC offers you a truly “turn-key”, fully administered opportunity, it is one that is flexible and uniquely structured for each individual program partner.
- We will perform the following:
- Actively assist in the negotiations between union and management to provide treatment expertise, medical-legal panels, and alternative dispute professionals.
- Complete the carve-out application and file with DWC
- Assist in the creation of an alternative dispute resolution system
- Provide Ombudsmen, Mediators, Arbitrators, restriction of attorney involvement and restructuring of fees, if any
- Develop a medical provider network that allows the injured workers meaningful choice, yet which is comprised of physicians who have demonstrated a high level of expertise in the treatment of work-related injuries and the ability to write objective medical reports
- Provide a Turn-key-network of providers to treat participants in the carve-out
- Possible creation of additional alternative benefits delivery
- Maximize and expand your return-to-work programs
- Support your joint safety committee
We have the knowledge and expertise to bring you together with your unions to create a program which effectively carves you out of the WCAB system. These carve-out agreements are completely external to the bargaining agreements you currently have in place. Contact us to discuss how we can greatly reduce or eliminate the following often unnecessary, subject to delay and costly areas associated with Workers’ Compensation in California:
— Litigation
— Medical Care
— Return-To-Work Issues
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