No Double Recovery! Practical Advice for Avoiding Reimbursement Pitfalls
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While the carrier is granted the rights of subrogation, reimbursement and a future credit/offset in both New York and New Jersey, figuring out how the claimant’s third-party recovery factors into your valuation of the case can get complicated.
In this LIVE webinar, Greg Lois will break down how the numbers work for each of the rights under Section 29 and Section 40, and what that means for your exposure and reserves.
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Greg Lois is the Managing Partner of Lois Law Firm LLC. Greg is the co-author of the LexisNexis “Practice Guide to Workers’ Compensation in New Jersey” published by Matthew Bender (2017-2023, ISBN:9781663363053). In October 2019, Greg earned the designation “Certified Litigation Management Professional (CLMP)” at the Litigation Management Institute hosted at Loyola University Chicago School of Law.
Greg Lois represents employers, self-insured companies, third party administrators, and insurance carriers in workers’ compensation matters. Greg has served as lead attorney on more than 100 trials involving workplace discrimination, workers’ compensation, and civil claims.
The “New York Risk Transfer Handbook" is "an effort to present to you, the curious claims professional, supervisor, manager, risk transfer or recovery specialist, or even fellow lawyer, just how subrogation makes sense in the context of your claims.”
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Why LOIS Has a Dedicated Civil Litigation Practice
LOIS has a dedicated Civil Litigation Practice to serve general liability, premises liability, automobile liability insurance carriers and third party administrators in reimbursement claims under New York WCL § 29 and New Jersey’s Section 40 (N.J.S.A. 34:15-40). Our attorneys also regularly represent these clients’ insureds in defense of personal injury matters filed in all counties in Metropolitan New York, all counties in New Jersey and in the federal courts.