The Insurance Educational Association  (IEA), announced the release of its latest online self-study course for the workers’ compensation claims professional. 

“Permanent Disability and the AMA Guides,”   builds on the online learning foundation IEA has constructed over 10 years, and on the experience IEA has in preparing workers’ comp professionals to master the intricacies of this challenging insurance line. Permanent Disability and the AMA Guides is the seventh online self-study workers’ comp course released this year. Each course has been authored by a leading specialist in the workers’ comp claims community.

Beginning with  an overview of the rating process, Permanent Disability and the AMA Guides includes relevant terminology, anatomical terms, and medical descriptions and measurements in conjunction with the mechanics of rating disabilities per the AMA Guides, 5th edition. Emphasis is placed upon the most common injuries and becoming adept in the use of the AMA Guides to correctly categorize and rate Permanent Disability.

Although oriented  towards the California workers’ comp system, IEA believes that claims administrators working in states other than California will get gain practical knowledge from the course’s extensive training in the proper reading and use of the AMA Guides and the author’s practical advice in dealing with claimants, attorneys and members of the medical community.

Permanent Disability and the AMA Guides  completes IEA’s development of an online, self-study path to the Workers’ Compensation Claims Administration certification. While many students take one program per semester to complete the certificate within two years, online self-study students can complete the program much faster. Permanent Disability and the AMA Guides is rated at 30 hours credit for California claims examiner continuing education or initial training needs.

It is one  of eight online courses which will allow motivated claims adjusters to achieve quickly their 5-course certificate in Workers’ Compensation Claims Administration and to go on to complete IEA’s full 8-course Workers’ Compensation Claims Professional designation. (workersxzcompxzkit)

For more information and to see a demo of IEA’s online courses, go to IEA’s website www.ieatraining.com or call 800-655-4432.

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