SIP EXAM NEW GEN ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED;(ALREADY GRADED A+)

SIP EXAM NEW GEN ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% VERIFIED;(ALREADY GRADED A+) An injured employee with dependents is incarcerated for an unrelated offense. Temporary disability otherwise payable is: Ans- C. Paid go the employees dependents LC 3370(d) What is the maximum temporary disability rate for an injury in 2010? Ans- D. $986.69 An employee works 40 hours a week and earns $16 per hour. He has a second job working 20 hours per week and warning $12 per hour. If he is unable to work both jobs what is the temporary disability rate for an injury in 2008 that occurs on the $16 per hour job? Ans- C. $586.67 LC 4453(c)(2) What is the maximum temporary disability rate for an injury in 2011? Ans- $986.69 What is the maximum temporary disability rate for an injury in 2012? Ans- $1,010.50 What is the maximum temporary disability rate for an injury in 2013? Ans- $1,066.72 What is the maximum temporary disability rate for an injury in 2014? Ans- $1,074.64 What is the maximum temporary disability rate for an injury in 2015? Ans- $1,103.29 What is the maximum temporary disability rate for an injury in 2016? Ans- $1,128.43 What benefits should not be considered when calculating average weekly earnings? Ans- C. Medical Benefits LC 4454 What is not considered indemnity? Ans- A. Litigation expense LC 4454 The first payment of temporary disability is due no later than ___ days after knowledge of the injury and disability? Ans- C. 14 LC 4650 The temporary disability rate for a baker with earnings of $1,400 per week, for an injury May 1, 2010 is what? Ans- C. $933.33 An employee is injured at work and is sent home. He is off work the next day and sees a doctor two days after the injury; three days after the injury he is hospitalized. When does the waiting period start? Ans- D. The date of injury. LC 4652 Aggregate disability payments for an injury in 2006, causing temporary disability shall not extend for more than: Ans- A. 104 weeks from the commencement of temporary disability. A chef with average weekly earnings of $1,300 per week is injured on May16, 2010. After a period of temporary total disability he returns to work part-time earning $450 per week. What is the correct wage loss temporary disability rate? Ans- A. $566.67 The injured worker is a maximum earner for an injury July 21, 2006. You are making a payment of temporary disability in August 2008. What is the correct temporary disability rate? Ans- D. Temporary disability computed in accordance with the temporary disability rate in effect on the date of the payment. LC 4661.5 A Safeway employee breaks his legs while working in 2010 and has 10 weeks of temporary total disability. He is a maximum earner, recovers fully and has no permanent impairment. How do you reserve this claim for indemnity? Ans- C. $9,900 or $9,866.90 You receive an Employer's First Report of Injury but accurate weekly wages can not be determined? How do you determine the temporary disability rate? Ans- D. Delay payment of temporary disability and request a wage statement. The examiner received a phone call from the treating doctor's office advising the employee is released to return to work June 3rd. The examiner failed to document the file but cut off temporary disability. The employee does not return to work until June 14. The examiner subsequently receives a call from the employee's supervisor wanting to know why the employee has not been paid through June 14. You should: Ans- A. Call the doctor's office and verify the return to work date. Temporary disability for an injury in 2012 was paid at the incorrect rate (too low). You should: Ans- B. Pay the amount due with a self-imposed penalty of 10%. A seasonal employee works six months a year and is a maximum earner. While not working he is a minimum earner. What is his temporary disability rate out of season? Ans- Minimum The employee provides a wage statement for the employee showing irregular earnings. What is the correct temporary disability rate? Ans- D. Two-thirds of actual weekly earnings averaged for this period of time. LC 4453 The employee earns $2,000 per week working six months per year and collects EDD unemployment benefits the rest of the year. He returns to work and is injured on his first day back. The correct temporary total disability rate is? Ans- D. Maximum temporary disability during the season and $666.67 out of season. An employee's husband comes to where she works and shoots her as result of a martial dispute. The injury is: Ans- A. Not compensable because it did not arise out of the employment An employment, whose diabetes is out of control, punches out at 3:00 p.m. Before leaving the company parking lot, he faints and falls fracturing his elbow. You should: Ans- A. Pay for the treatment for the fracture and pay for the treatment for the diabetes so that the fracture can heal. What is the role of the investigator assigned to pursue issues of compensability? Ans- A. Determine all the facts An accountant took work home for an annual report. The employee left work at the normally appointed hour and was not reimbursed for mileage. The employee was injured in an automobile accident at an intersection one block from home and his supervisor calls to tell you they found paperwork for the end-of-the-year report in his briefcase in the car. You should: Ans- A. Accept as an exception to the going and coming rule. Bramall v WCAB (1978) 43 CCC 288 An employee is injured at the place of employment when he burns himself in the kitchen while cleaning up after a meeting with other employees and his supervisor. The injury would not have occurred had the employee not been drinking with other employees during the meeting. Ans- A. The injury is compensable because the drinking was condoned by the employee's supervisor. An employee is in the break room drinking vodka. A conveyor falls seriously injuring him and the doctor at the hospital says the employee was intoxicated. You should: Ans- A. Accept the claim A high school teacher leaves school after the end of the day. The school, located in a bad neighborhood, provides parking for her in a district owned lot at the school. The teacher pulls out of the school lot into the city street and approximately two blocks from the school while stopped at a red light a man forces his way into her car, assaults her and steals her purse. Ans- D. The injury is compensable because the employment subjected the employee to a "special risk". The injured employee contracts Hepatitis C from a blood transfusion during surgery for a work-related injury. You are responsible for: Ans- D. The compensable consequences of the Hepatitis C An employee who does not receive mileage reimbursement for use of his car, while on an unpaid lunch hour, is injured while on his way to the bank to cash his paycheck. You should: Ans- B. Sent due to personal errand not related to work. Hinkle vs WCAB (1985) 50 CCC 718 The employee is receiving salary continuation from the employer in lieu of temporary disability. Is a DWC notice required? Ans- C. Yes, a DWC notice with an explanation of the salary continuation plan with the initial notice. An employee is at home for a worker's compensation injury, receiving temporary disability. He contracts measles from one of his children. What are you liable for? Ans- C. Medical treatment and indemnity for the industrial injury only. You are in the process of stipulating to a permanent disability award with the employee when you receive a call from a furniture company who says the employee owes them $2,000. You should: Ans- B. Don't pay because the debt is not a valid lien under the Labor Code. LC 4903 While on a scheduled break with the boss and coworkers at their usual place the employee has an injury. You subsequently receive a call from an applicant attorney's asking why you haven't paid benefits to the employee. You call the employer and the employer says they did not report it because they did not think it was compensable. Ans- D. The employer should have reported it because the off-premises breaks were customary and had the approval of the employer. The employer encourages employees to carpool and provides vans for employees. An injury that occurs while commuting is: Ans- D. Compensable as an exception to the going and coming rule An employee is traveling on business at the request of his employer and while stopped for lunch at a restaurant the employee is injured. This claim would be: Ans- D. Compensable due to the Commercial Traveler Rule A volunteer nurse's aide for a non-profit hospital injures her back lifting a patient. The injury is: Ans- D. Compensable is the Board of Directors declares volunteers be deemed employees in writing prior to the injury. LC 3363.6 When can an injured worker not attend a QME/AME exam? Ans- B. When mileage is not paid before the exam A forearm and coworker are drinking on the loading dock after work ends at 5 p.m. A coworker is injured when he backs his truck into something while leaving because was intoxicated. Is the injury compensable? Ans- B. Yes, because the drinking was authorized by the forearm. A twenty year old employee is injured at work but does report it as required by work procedures. The employer finds out, investigates, determines it is not work-related and denies it but does not report it to the Third Party Administrator. The TPA gets a Notice to Pay Benefits from the WCAB. What should the TPA do? Ans- D. Pay benefits in accordance with the Labor Code. Two employees get into an altercation about something they have to do at work. A hits B. Who is entitled to workers' compensation benefits? Ans- B. B...lol The calcis is the: Ans- B. The heel bone A Colles fracture involves the: Ans- B. Radius The best description for a comminuted fracture is: Ans- A. Bone broken or crushed into small pieces Dorsiflexion of the foot means: Ans- A. Backward bending of the foot A greenstick fracture is a: Ans- C. Bone that is broken on one side, bent on the other The metacarpus is: Ans- B. hand The scaphoid bone is located in the: Ans- A. wrist The olecranon is located: Ans- D. The elbow Zygoma involves what part of the body? Ans- C. face What does synovial means? Ans- D. Fluid in the joint Arthroplasty means: Ans- A. surgical replacement of a joint Otitis media involves what part of the body? Ans- A. The ear What is fibromyalgia? Ans- B. chronic muscle and soft joint pain What is associated with carpal tunnel syndrome? Ans- C. wrist The ilium is in what part of the body? Ans- B. hip Which of the following does not involve the lungs? Ans- B. Lordosis Conjunctivitis involves the: Ans- C. lining of the eye What are the two weight-bearing bones of the leg? Ans- A. tibia and femur Orthoscopy is: Ans- D. Examination of the eye with a scope The definition of the nucleus pulposus is: Ans- C. gelatinous like substance in the disc .......................................................................................................................................