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2010 Speakers Richard D. Arnold, Esq., Partner Kathleen M. Bomberger, RN, BS Joseph P. Boyle, ARM, Eastern Regional Workers’ Comp Claims Manager, Global Risk Management Doris Dicristina, RN, BSN, MSHCM, COHN-S/CM, LNC, Director, Employee Health Services Kelly M. Estevam, Esq., Attorney William T. Freeman, Esq., Partner John H. Geaney, Esq., Shareholder Dane A. Higgins, M.B.A., Pharm.D., Doctor of Pharmacy Mark C. Holloway, J.D., Senior Vice President and Director, Compliance Services Andrea Kramarz, Claims Manager – Risk Management Department Joe Levin, Sr. Manager Corporate EH&S Daniel T. Lewbart, Esq., Partner Robert T. Lewis, Esq., Chief Legal Counsel Jeffrey D. Newby, Esq., Partner William R. Nortrup, Claims Manager, Department of Risk Management and Insurance Anne Sambucini, RN, CCM, CDMS, CNLCP, MSCC, President Mark S. Setaro, Esq., Partner Doris L. Dicristina, RN, BSN, MSHCM, COHN-S/CM, LNC Ms. Dicristina is currently the Director of Employee Health Services at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Her responsibilities include the full spectrum of employee health-related concerns up to and including workers’ compensation case management. She serves as the employer liaison in the claim petition process. Ms. Dicristina is certified by the American Board of Occupational Health Nurses as an occupational health nurse specialist and case manager. She is the past president and current member of the New Jersey Hospital Employee Health Nurses Association, as well as a member of the American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, the New Jersey Association of Occupational Health Nurses, the Association of Occupational Health Professionals in Healthcare, and American Society for Healthcare Human Resource Administration. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the AAOHN Business Recognition Award, and the AAOHN and NJHEHN Occupational Nurse of the Year Awards. Ms. Dicristina also is the founder and president of DLD Nurse Consultant, LLC and provides assistance to employers in developing a business plan to best balance the health needs of the employees and the responsibilities of the employer. She is a graduate of William Paterson University and the College of St. Elizabeth. Kelly M. Estevam, Esq. Kelly M. Estevam is an associate in Capehart Scatchard’s School Law and Labor & Employment Groups. Ms. Estevam focuses her practice in the representation of public and private sector employers in the areas of labor and employment, school law, and civil rights law matters. She is also fluent in Portuguese. Ms. Estevam received her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey and her B.S. degree in Finance from The College of New Jersey, in Ewing, New Jersey. She is admitted to practice law in the States of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is also a member of the Burlington County Chamber of Commerce (Employment Practices Committee). William T. Freeman, Esq. William T. Freeman is a partner with Freeman, Barton, Huber and Sacks located in Haddonfield, New Jersey. He is a graduate of Denison University 1985 and Rutgers Law School 1988. He has been representing industry in the defense of workplace claims since his admittance to the New Jersey Bar in 1988. He has been a Certified Workers' Compensation Trial Attorney in New Jersey since 1998 and a member of The New Jersey Bar Association Workers' Compensation section. He represents insurance carriers, workers' compensation insurance administrators, public entities, and self-insured employers engaged in transportation, manufacturing, retail, healthcare and hospitality. He lectures for and provides educational seminars to his clients, addressing issues of coverage, exposure and subrogation. He maintains a statewide practice and has fully tried workers’ compensation cases in every venue in New Jersey. In addition to his trial practice Mr. Freeman regularly handles appeals. He has argued compensation claims before the New Jersey Supreme Court. Mr. Freeman also prosecutes subrogation claims stemming from workers’ compensation cases in the Superior Court, Law Division of New Jersey. He defends coverage "B" claims and intentional tort claims made directly against employers. He has also defended discrimination cases filed under the provisions of the New Jersey Workers' compensation Act. John H. Geaney, Esq. Mr. Geaney is a shareholder with Capehart & Scatchard, P.A. His practice involves representation of employers, self-insured companies, third-party administrators and insurance carriers in workers’ compensation. He also represents employers with respect to the Americans with Disabilities Act and Family and Medical Leave Act. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Workers’ Compensation Law Trial Attorney specialist. Mr. Geaney has published numerous works primarily on workers’ compensation subjects. Additionally, he frequently teaches classes and seminars on the ADA, FMLA and workers’ compensation issues. Mr. Geaney is a member of the American Bar Association, the Burlington County Bar Association, and is on the board of directors for the New Jersey Bar Association. In addition, he is a committee member of the New Jersey Self Insurers’ Association, and is a member of the National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network. He is a graduate of the Boston College Law School and Holy Cross College. Dane A. Higgins, M.B.A., Pharm.D. Dr. Higgins has served as a consultant to numerous insurers, managed care organizations and corporations representing over 2.5 million beneficiaries. He currently provides pharmacotherapy expertise in the areas of employee-sponsored pharmacy benefits, Medicare-sponsored pharmacy benefits, and workers’ compensation. Dr. Higgins has authored more than 25 disease state-based pharmacotherapy reviews, 150 individual drug-reviews, 200 prior authorization criteria, and developed various other drug benefit management programs for insurers and managed care organizations. He has developed numerous health and wellness and disease management programs that address pharmacotherapy issues. He is also the co-editor of the monthly publication, Medication and Wellness Focus. Dr. Higgins received a Doctor of Pharmacy and Masters of Business Administration from Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. Mark C. Holloway, J.D. Mark Holloway has 20+ years of experience in health and welfare employee benefits. He provides technical advice related to health and welfare benefit plans to Lockton Benefit Group professionals and their clients throughout the country. His expertise is in a variety of compliance-related issues including COBRA, HIPAA, Section 125, discrimination testing, FMLA, state insurance laws and legislative and regulatory issues at the state and federal levels. Prior to joining Lockton Mark was a senior vice president in Aon Consulting's Health & Benefits division and served as a senior vice president in Aon's Research & Technical Services division. Mark is a well-known and frequent speaker on many employee benefit topics. He was a keynote speaker at the 2005 Health and Welfare Plan Management Conference for Mid-Sized Employers. He is a perennial speaker at the HR Southwest Human Resources Conference in Fort Worth, Texas, which is the second largest human resources conference in the nation. Mark has written a number of articles and is a member of the editorial board of advisors for the Benefits Law Journal. His most recent article is "New Laws Expand Mental Health/Substance Abuse Parity, Extend Coverage for Ill College Students," which appears in the Spring 2009 edition of the Benefits Law Journal. Mark also served as the co-author and editor of The Coordination of Benefits Handbook, which is published by the Thompson Publishing Group. Mark received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Hartwick College, his J.D. from Wake Forest University, and his LL.M. in Taxation from Villanova University Law School. He has completed the Certified Employee Benefits Specialist (CEBS) program sponsored by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans. Daniel T. Lewbart, Esq. Daniel T. Lewbart is a founding partner in the insurance defense firm of Gerolamo McNulty Divis & Lewbart with offices in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mr. Lewbart manages the firm’s workers’ compensation practice and has also handled over 50 jury trials to verdict. More specifically, Mr. Lewbart and his firm have litigated Civil RICO actions on behalf of insurance companies against fraudulent medical providers for unlawful billing practices. Mr. Lewbart has lectured on the topic of insurance fraud related to workers’ compensation matters. Mr. Lewbart is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the following Federal Courts: the District of New Jersey, Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association, Workers’ Compensation Division. Education: Vermont Law School, MSEL, (Masters Degree, Environmental Law, 1994; Cum Laude); Capital University School of Law, J.D. 1987; (Order of the Curia); Gettysburg College, BA, 1982. Robert T. Lewis Robert Lewis is Chief Legal Counsel for Crowe Paradis Services Corporation (CPSC) a national Medicare compliance company. He has been at the forefront of this emerging area of the law and for his accomplishments was selected by the New Jersey Law Journal as one of the “Top 40 lawyers under the age of 40” in 2004. He is a founding member and current President of the National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals. Mr. Lewis has published a number of articles addressing Medicare compliance including articles found in The New Jersey Law Journal, Medley’s Managed Care Liability Report, Andrews Health Law, New Jersey Lawyer, Mealey’s Litigation Report: Employer Liability Insurance, and Geaney’s New Jersey Workers’ Compensation Manual. Mr. Lewis is also a nationally recognized speaker and has presented before such prestigious organizations as: The American Insurance Association (AIA), The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), The American Inn of Court, The National Structured Settlements Trade Association (NSSTA), The National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals (NAMSAP), The New York Claims Association, The University of Mississippi, The University of Florida, The Judges of the New Jersey Division of Workers’ Compensation, and MediPro Seminars, LLC. In addition to educational programs, Mr. Lewis has assisted in training and protocol development for a number of the top insurance carriers, third-party administrators, and self-insureds nationwide. He was also recently featured on the television program “Legal Line” discussing the impact of Medicare in both Liability and Workers’ Compensation Settlements. Jeffrey D. Newby, Esq. Jeffrey D. Newby, Esquire is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and of Wake Forest University School of Law. Mr. Newby is a member of both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. As the managing attorney for the New Jersey office, he litigates workers’ compensation matters in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. After graduating from law school, Mr. Newby was a public defender in Montgomery County before joining the Philadelphia law firm of German Gallagher & Murtagh, where he was an associate from 1986 to 1989. In 1989, he became associated with the law offices of Rawle & Henderson. He joined Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP as an associate in January of 1992 when the firm was founded and became a partner of the firm in January 1995. Mr. Newby is managing partner of the Cherry Hill, New Jersey office. He has argued before the appellate courts in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as federal court. Mr. Newby frequently lectures on workers’ compensation issues and has done so on behalf of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute, SEAK, Lorman Education Services, PESI and has appeared on Law Journal television regarding the polarity of workers’ compensation cases in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 2007, he became a Certified Workers' Compensation Law Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court. William R. Nortrup Mr. Nortrup graduated from Seton Hall University in 1980 with a BS in Education. He has been with Rutgers The State University of New Jersey since January 1987. He started as the Risk Analyst and has been the Claims Manager for seventeen years. As Claims Manager he is responsible for the day-to-day operation of Rutgers Self Insured Workers’ Compensation, General Liability, Automobile Liability, Auto Physical Damage and Theft Programs. Mr. Nortrup started in claims with a small New Jersey third-party administrator where he started as a Claims Representative Investigator for Workers Compensation, General and Auto liability claims. He also handled all the workers compensation informal hearings. He was there for five years. He was a Workers Compensation Claim Supervisor for the last two years. Anne Sambucini, RN, CCM, CDMS, CNLCP, MSCC Anne Sambucini, RN, CCM, CDMS, CNLCP, MSCC has over 30 years’ nursing experience that has included over 15 years in critical care, a strong professional nursing background in catastrophic case management, including assessment of and coordination of care needs for severely injured persons, with experience working with chronically ill elderly individuals and pediatric rehabilitation. She is an assistant editor for the core curriculum for Certified Nurse Life Care Planning. Anne is a member of North Jersey Claims Association, National Alliance of Medicare Set-Aside Professionals, CMSA and IIARP. Anne Sambucini is currently president of ANS Rehab Consulting, LLC in Green Brook, NJ. This is a national company that provides Life Care Planning, Legal Nurse Consulting, Medicare Set Asides and a Pharmacy Management Program. Just prior to co-founding ANS Rehab Consulting, while employed by Concentra, Anne served as the Catastrophic Injury Director at AIG's home office. Mark S. Setaro, Esq. Mr. Setaro devotes his practice to the defense of workers' compensation in New Jersey on behalf of insurance carriers, self-insured entities and third-party administrators. He has concentrated his practice in the field of workers’ compensation since 1987 and is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Workers' Compensation Law Attorney since the creation of this certification. He began his carrier in workers’ compensation representing injured workers almost exclusively until 2000 when Mr. Setaro was given the opportunity to start up the staff counsel workers’ compensation defense office for CGU Insurance that later became OneBeacon Insurance. He then joined the firm as Weber Gallagher in 2003 and continued his work defending OneBeacon Insurance claims, along with the claims of numerous other carriers and third-party administrators. He has lectured extensively over the years for a variety of organizations on topics related to the laws of Workers’ Compensation in New Jersey. Education: Seton Hall University School of Law, J.D., 1984, Member, Seton Hall Law Review; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, B.A., 1978. Professional Memberships and Activities: Admitted to practice in New Jersey. Member of the New Jersey State Bar Association, Executive Committee of its Workers’ Compensation Section,
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