Ringler Associates is proud to announce that Senior Vice President, John L. Machir, is the new President of NSSTA (National Structured Settlement Association), the nation's leading voice in the structured settlement industry on Capitol Hill.
Mr. Machir, who joined Ringler Associates in 1988, has been a national leader among structured settlement professionals for nearly 30 years, both at Ringler Associates and NSSTA. Read more…
One of the key benefits of a structured settlement is its ability to protect financial security over the long term. (For more on that, click here.)
But there are a host of other financial advantages to the structured settlement and one of the more important ones is that, if paid irrevocably into a special needs trust, a structured settlement can help you maintain eligibility for Medicaid and other government needs-based programs, including Supplemental Security Income (SSI). Read more…
Medcor Nurse, Gail King from Warner Bros. Studios gets a cameo on Ellen! Gail administers a flu shot to a willing participant (who thinks a joke is being played on him!) in front of a live studio audience.
On Thursday, April 25, 2013 Panelists John P Albert – Acting Director, Division of Medicare Secondary Payer Policy and Operations; Cynthia Gross – Health Insurance Specialist, Division of Medicare Secondary Payer Policy and Operations; Elizabeth V. Poole – Health Insurance Specialist, Division of Medicare Secondary Payer Policy and Operations; and Barbara Jean Wright – Senior Technical Advisor, MSP were welcomed by almost 200 members of the National Alliance of Medicare Set Aside Professionals at its annual conference in Baltimore, Maryland.
During the one hour presentation, CMS Panelists discussed various changes to the CMS website, the Statement of Work (SOW) for the new WCRC Contractor for completing and returning determinations in a timely manner for newly submitted WCMSAs, the new web-portal for submissions/re-considerations and the recent CMS Town Hall Teleconference. They also responded to attendee’s questions. Read more…
A recent Massachusetts court decision upheld efforts by staffing companies and workers compensation insurers to close a loophole that allowed staffing-firm employees injured at a client company both to collect workers compensation benefits and to sue the company where they were hurt.
The Superior Court for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Suffolk County, held that by virtue of an alternate employer endorsement naming a staffing company’s client as an insured under the staffing company’s workers’ compensation policy, the client company is entitled to the same immunities as the staffing company under the Workers Compensation Ac (the Act). Read more…
Author Michael B. Stack, CPA, Director of Operations, Amaxx Risk Solutions, Inc. is an expert in employer communication systems and part of the Amaxx team helping companies reduce their workers compensation costs by 20% to 50%. He is a writer, speaker, and website publisher. www.reduceyourworkerscomp.com. Contact: mstack@reduceyourworkerscomp.com.
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