Rebecca Shafer is an attorney and expert in workers compensation cost containment. Since 1991 she has utilized her expertise in working with employers to target savings opportunities and reduce their workers compensation costs. Her clients have included airlines, healthcare, printing/publishing, pharmaceuticals, retail, hospitality, and manufacturing. Her greatest strength is helping clients properly assess their problems and move from assessment to implementation. Her work with insurance brokers and position as litigation manager for a Fortune 500 company have given her a broad perspective on how to manage workers compensation within an organization. She is an accomplished writer, speaker, and publisher. She serves on the Executive Committee of LexisNexis Workers Compensation Law Community. She is the author of Workers Compensation Management Program: Reduce Costs 20% to 50%. She can be reached at RShafer@ReduceYourWorkersComp.com

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6 Factors that Slow Recovery from a Workers Comp Injury

• 07/12/21

An injury is an injury. Structurally something occurs within the body that leads to being uncomfortable and in pain. The goal is always to get back to pain-free as quickly as possible. But this goal is ...
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Successful Handling of Cat Claims Requires Educating and Engaging Family Members

• 06/07/21

Catastrophic injuries can be challenging, expensive, and devastating — for the injured worker, her family, and the employer. Managing them takes specialized skill and collaboration among experts who ...
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Reserving 101 For Workers Compensation Claims

• 05/26/21

Reserving workers compensation claim files is the art of predicating the financial cost of the claim and setting aside monetary values to cover payments until closing. Unlike other types of casualty losses, ...
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6 Tips for Implementing an Effective Injury Triage Program

• 05/19/21

Post-injury triage offers countless opportunities to interested stakeholders seeking to reduce workers' compensation costs. It not only provides an immediate injury response, but it gives the employee peace ...
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Medicare Secondary Payer Update: Time to Update your Compliance Program

• 05/18/21

Medicare Secondary Payer compliance plays an integral part in every workers’ compensation claim management team’s processes. In order to run an effective claim team, everyone must be aware of ...
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3 Skills to Help Determine Workers' Comp Injury Causation

• 05/14/21

Proper denials of primary liability start with claim handlers successfully investigating matters of causation. Issues of concern include understanding the mechanism of injury and activities the employee was ...
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Completing A Subrogation Investigation

• 05/12/21

Subrogation is a large part of the investigation and handling of insurance injury claims. Most times a lot of carriers will sign off on subro because they feel the injury was due to operator error or a ...
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A Workers Comp Claim's Iceberg Effect

• 04/16/21

Workers in the claims profession and also on the employer side will often only think of claims as costs of wage loss and medical exposure. It is true that those costs are the ones on the surface. The injured ...
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Use Private Investigation to Prosecute Workers Compensation Fraud

• 04/14/21

By reading adjudicated workers compensation fraud case histories, reviewing state statistics for investigations, prosecutions, restitutions, fines, and imprisonments it quickly becomes clear that the ...
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