Sharon Griffin and Ro Baltayan

Skill set:

Development, management, training and supervision of disability management services and expert witness staff for 30 Years:

Manager for Traveler’s Insurance Co. disability management company, (Stuart, Ft. Pierce, Vero Beach, Lake Okeechobee areas), 5 years

Self-employed for 26 years:
Incorporated and act(ed) as CEO of 3 companies: Sharon Griffin and Associates, Inc. (SGA-22 years); The Vocational Evaluation Centers of Florida (5 years, sold to Berkley Care); and Medicare Allocations, Inc. (currently).

• Incorporated all companies
• Developed infrastructure (business license, insurance, branding company, business plan, etc.)
• Fiscal management
• Setting/monitoring productivity requirements of personnel
• Development of Quality Control standards
• Development of methodology of services
• Recruitment and hiring of personnel
• Management of personnel, both as employees and as sub-contract personnel
• Staff consisted of both nurses and counselors, office personnel
• Training and development of staff
• Develop marketing strategies with sales manager
• Assist sales dept. in provision of educational seminars
• Current customer data base spanning 22 years is 1,800 (SGA), which specializes in forensic services in PI/liability, which refers to MAI for MSA's
• Medicare Set-Aside Allocation Reports (MSA) - extensive experience in both WC and Liability on national level
• Submission of MSA to CMS
• Follow-up services with CMS until acceptance and or closure
• Consultative services for compliance in risk and MSP related issues
• Experts in setting “reserves” in insurance industry and assessing risk
• Educational training provided on National level in MSA and related subjects
• Authorship and publications related to issues in Medicare Compliance
• Educational training for defense and plaintiff liability attorneys, TPA's, and insurance companies and self-insured entities in area of MSA and related topics
• Advise plaintiff counsel regarding self-administration of MSA by their client and thereby reducing their personal future liability exposure and harm to their client secondary to non-compliance
• Contractor to State of Florida for provision of "Training and Education Evaluations" in Workers Compensation
• Social Security Experts
• Providers of State and Federal expert witness testimony in Life Care Planning and earning capacity assessment (liability, medical mal-practice, workers' compensation)
• Litigation consultation/trial support in all topics of expertise
• Specialists in Catastrophic Case Management, i.e. brain injury, spinal cord injury, burns, amputations, etc.
• Experts in ergonomic job site analysis
• Vocational Evaluator (licensed to administer and interpret testing)
• Job placement expertise
• Transferrable skill analysis
• Earning capacity assessments
• Divorce litigation, vocational assessments
• Americans With Disability (ADA) experts
• Long Term Disability assessments, expert witness