2025 Missouri injury liens: ERISA and the interaction with personal injury, worker's compensation and social security. What you need to know.

Recording available after the original program date, 3/21/2025

This course will teach you how ERISA law works and the impact on personal injury, worker's compensation and social security cases. You will hear examples of real cases teaching you what you need to know to deal with ERISA liens asserted by health care plans, and ERISA plans and how to deal with offsets from worker's compensation disability benefits and social security benefits.

Learning objectives include:

• How to recognize whether a personal injury lien is legitimate under ERISA law and what to do with it in such a situation.
• How to deal with ERISA long term disability carriers when they ask for repayment of the ERISA long term disability benefits out of your clients worker's compensation and social security cases?
• What kinds of cases fall outside of ERISA law so that liens on personal injury cases don't have to be honored?
• Can the health care plan sue me or my client when we ignore them and don't pay them back?

Opinions and positions stated by presenters of MoBarCLE programs are those of the presenters and not necessarily those of The Missouri Bar. This program is intended as information for lawyers in Missouri, in conjunction with other research they deem necessary, in the exercise of their independent judgment.

Note: This material qualifies for self-study credit only. Pursuant to Regulation 15.04.5, a lawyer may receive up to six hours of self-study credit in a reporting year. Self-study programs do not qualify for GAL Certification, ethics, elimination of bias or Kansas credit.