Workfinders USA – Specialists in Reducing Workers’ Compensation Exposure for

Pemanently Restricted WC Claims

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Loss Mitigation Through Aggressive

Return-to-Work

Workfinders USA takes your most challenging claims – those with permanent restrictions & those with high exposure – and brings to you a strategic, cost-effective resolution.

We provide your injured workers a premium Return-to-Work program. We help you uncover cost savings while doing the best for your employee. Our services combine industry expertise and hands-on interaction with your workers, potential employers and you to ensure claim resolution that best fits with each unique claim.

Welcome to a game-changing Return-to-Work service.

We’re different. Here’s how:

We assessWe get to know your injured worker. We assess limitations, previous job functions, and vocational background. Our Certified Rehabilitation Counselor/Voc. Expert conducts an assessment and shares with all parties.

We source jobsWe locate jobs that fit. Workfinders USA goes beyond work-from-home tasks – we research suitable openings and contact companies directly to source positions. We give your worker real job possibilities, not lukewarm job listings culled from the Internet.

We get involvedWe advocate for your worker. We communicate directly with hiring managers to ensure job viability and availability. We arrange interviews, communicate with your worker, and deliver job possibilities that are within your injured worker’s restrictions.

We follow upUnlike most RTW vendors, we go well beyond simply providing a list of job openings. We ensure a successful outcome by following up post-interview with employers, ascertaining results and we document the results. We know the right questions to ask.We test complianceHow do you know if your injured worker shows up for interviews? Because we schedule interviews and follow up with hiring managers, we uncover instances of noncompliance – the feedback provided helps you build a strong negotiating platform.

We manage claims…AggressivelyWe won’t rest until your case is resolved. We take charge, working hard to give your injured worker the best potential for success. We advocate, follow up, and document the entire process.

Permanently restricted no longer has to mean permanently idle.

The result: faster, more satisfying settlement of long-tail claims and happier, more productive workers.

OUR DIFFERENCE

Your injured worker deserves a chance at a productive, meaningful career. Workfinders USA helps make that happen by focusing on the strengths and limitations of each permanently restricted employee. From locating job opportunities to ensuring all limitations are accommodated, we act as advocates for your injured worker.

We call prospective employers. We communicate your injured worker’s requirements, and we secure interviews. Plus, we follow up with both the worker and the employer and document the entire process.

Not all injured workers are telling the whole story. That’s where our RTW process goes beyond typical return-to-work services. Through our unique approach, we are able to test motivations, uncover noncompliance and give you the documentation you need for critical leverage and favorable settlements.

SUSPECT A PROBLEM?

We take your claim seriously. That’s why we won’t give you the same, tired Internet-sourced, work-from-home positions that don’t offer injured workers any challenge or value. We work with you, your injured worker, and potential employers to develop solid job opportunities that give workers a sense of pride in themselves and their careers.

Workfinders USA versus the Competition

WORKFINDERS USA

We source suitable jobs that match your injured worker’s background and restrictions. We call potential employers directly.

OUR COMPETITORS

We advocate for the injured worker, ensuring potential employers can accommodate their needs.

We schedule in-person interviews for the injured worker.

We follow up with hiring managers and document all interview activity. Follow up is critical in order to create claim leverage.

We test RTW motivation and provide evidence of noncompliance.

We deliver quick, efficient claimresolution that reduce claim costs.

They search unreliable online job boards, not verifying to see if the position is suitable/open for hire.

They provide little, if any, advocacy. Lazy approach!

They provide job leads and expect injured workers to arrange their own interviews.

If they didn’t source the job interview, they probably are not following-up.

By taking a hands-off approach, their process documentation does not match up to ours.

They allow claims to remain stagnant, with little effort to reduce your claims.Lazy RTW = costly PTD outcomes

We save you money.

Why Workfinders?

Workfinders USA is the only RTW service that aggressively manages your most complex claims. Our expert team assesses each claim and works with your injured worker, finding worthwhile, sustainable work opportunities and reducing your claim obligations.

By proactively handling each individual claim with the same dedication and energy, Workfinders USA delivers the best outcome for your most complicated workers’ compensation claims. We help you settle claims faster, giving you significant cost savings over the life of the claim.

With over 35 years of industry experience in handling permanently restricted claims, we are experts at locating meaningful employment opportunities for claimants. With an expert staff of Employment Analysts, CRCs, and expert witnesses, we provide a comprehensive service that’s unmatched.

Workfinders USA Claim Flow Chart

Case Studies

Case with National Carrier • West Virginia Claim• Sedentary Restrictions Maximum Exposure = $1,000,000Settlement = $300,000 SAVINGS = $700,000

Here's proof of our success:

Case with National Assisted Living Company • Illinois Claim• 35lbs. lift occ ; 20lbs. lift freq Maximum Exposure = $872,000Settlement = $57,000SAVINGS = $815,000

Transitional Return-to-Work

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Workfinders USA – Keepers Workers Engaged & Involved While Healing

Help your employees recuperate while keeping them engaged – that’s the focus of our Transitional Return-to-Work process, which gives injured workers meaningful work while allowing them the time necessary to heal.

We deliver injury management with a purpose – to lower workers’ compensation and costs related to lost-time injuries. By locating and placing your injured worker in transitional positions, Workfinders USA addresses the psychological impact of injury. By helping your employees remain actively engaged, we help you reduce claim costs and improve RTW rates while speeding employee recovery.

Keeping Workers Engaged

Your worker is injured and off the job. Light or modified duty tasks aren’t available at the insured. Every day that goes by increases the chance that your injured worker won’t return to work.

Introducing Transitional

Return to Work

Easier Transition, Better RTW Outcome

From the day your injured worker is released by their physician to light duty, we start sourcing transitional work. We:

Our Proven Hands-on Approach

Conduct Claimant Questionnaire. Within 24 hours of referral, our Transitional Case Manager contacts the claimant (and any legal counsel, if represented) and schedules a telephonic questionnaire.1.

Contact Employers/Charities. We call our network of employers and charitable organizations to source jobs and volunteer opportunities that match your injured worker’s skills and interests.2.

Work with Hiring Managers. We talk directly with hiring managers, sourcing potential positions, discussing the claimant, and explaining the Workfinders USA transitional process.3.

Advocate Claimant Restrictions. We work with hiring managers to ensure that a claimant’s restrictions are accommodated. We ensure that all transitional opportunities comply with the claimant’s restrictions.4.

Schedule Claimant Interview. We schedule claimant interviews with those employers and charities that meet our strict standards of compliance.5.

Follow Up on Interviews. We go beyond what any other RTW provider will – we follow up with employers to ascertain interview results. We continue to follow up once a week for four weeks and provide your adjusters updated reports.

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Document and Communicate. Our exhaustive communication and documentation process is a standout feature of our services. From the time a claimant is referred to when they return to work, we communicate and document each conversation, follow up, and action associated with that claimant. This gives our clients added confidence that every referral is worked with care and precision, allowing for the best possible opportunities for success.

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Workfinders USA – The LHWCA Loss Mitigation Specialists

Longshore & Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act

LHWCA claims are some of the most expensive, chronic claims in the workers’ comp industry. With high AWWs along with a maximum weekly benefit rate of $1,300+, employers and carriers face a huge financial burden. Workfinders USA is here to help!

RTW Amplified.

Workfinders USA’s aggressive RTW program identifies ‘suitable alternate employment opportunities’ for your claimants while proving realistic wage earning capacities. We also schedule actual job interviews for your claimants at alternate employers, providing them with the best opportunity at re-employment.

We will create a LMS for every claim,

proving job market availability and earning capacity. We look

to source five open, viable and suitable jobs as close to AWW as possible. All LMSs are double-verified by our CRC/VE (Certified Rehab Counselor/Voc. Expert).

RTW Services.

When requested, our CRC/VE will conduct job analysis’ for any/all jobs

sourced.

We will also schedule up to three job interviews

for the claimant, further establishing a viable,

gainful job market. Jobs will be verified to be open,

suitable and viable for the claimant to obtain

LABOR MARKET SURVEY JOB ANALYSIS’PERMANENT JOB

SOURCING/PLACEMENT

A CRC/VE will create claimant assessment, usually performed at claimant’s attorney’s office.

Our proven approach

Our aggressive, hands-on approach to RTW success works.

Each day we research appropriate employers to call based on restrictions and background of the claimant.

We cold-call each employer sourced to gain accurate job availability & information. By cold calling employers, we often find jobs not yet advertised!

We speak to hiring managers to ask about job openings, inform them of our service, advocate on behalf of claimant, answer questions etc...A large reason why we call employers is to be able to sell the claimant to the employer the best way we know how, something a simple application can NOT do.

If a job is open, we make sure it is suitable/within restrictions of claimant. If a job is outside of the claimant’s restrictions, we ask employer if accommodations are possible. If not, we do not pursue the lead. For us to consider a job lead, it ALWAYS must be within the claimant's restrictions. We make this priority #1!

We schedule job interviews for the claimant with employer. Scheduling in-person appointments and asking the claimant to physically attend is how we test the claimant’s motivation to RTW while supply them with the best chance at re-employment.We follow up with employer to ascertain interview results. Should the claimant be uncooperative, we obtain critical information from the employer such as appearance, demeanor/attitude, statements made, tardiness, etc…This is how we test the claimant’s compliance level.

We take pride in our relentless communication and documentation and stand by ready should any court proceedings be necessary.

Communication/Documentation

Appointment Follow Up(Job Placement)

Schedule Interviews(Job Placement)

Advocate Restrictions

Speak to Hiring Managers

Cold-Call Employers

Research Employers

Conduct Claimant Assessment

LHWCA Case Studies

TRIAL CASE 1 - LHWCA CarrierLabor Market Survey and Job Placement AWW: $895Maximum Exposure = $881,000SETTLED = $156,000 SAVINGS = $725,000

Here's proof of our success:

TRIAL CASE 2 - LHWCA CarrierLabor Market Survey and Job Placement AWW: $603Maximum Exposure = $693,000SETTLED = $77,000 SAVINGS = $616,000

Our Partial Client List Includes:

As Well As Various Carriers, Self-Insureds, TPAs and Defense Law Firms

Client List

Are You Ready to Reduce or Eliminate your LHWCA Exposure?Workfinders USA delivers comprehensive claim management wherever you are. No matter where you’re located, Workfinders USA will deliver superior RTW services and unmatched cost savings. How confident are we? You don’t pay us unless we deliver a successful result to you!

Call or write. You’ll have an answer quickly – typically within 24 hours.

Visit our website: www.workfindersusa.com to learn more.Call 414-258-2349 or email BillT@workfindersusa.com. We respond within 24 hours.

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