Colleen D. Bratkovich is an attorney at Zacharia Brown, and practices in the areas of Medicaid planning and eligibility, veterans' benefits, and related estate planning and estate administration issues. She is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Ms. Bratkovich is also accredited by the Veteran's Administration to represent veterans in their claims before the department. She earned her undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University and her law degree from Duquesne University. Ms. Bratkovich is a member of NAELA and PAELA.
Leslie E. Levin is special counsel to the firm Cuddy & Feder LLP, in White Plains, New York, where she practices in estate planning, probate, estate and trust administration, gift and generation-skipping tax transfer planning, asset protection, IRA distribution planning, not-for-profit organizations, charitable planning, special needs and disability planning, Medicaid planning, and elder law. Ms. Levin earned her B.A. degree, summa cum laude, high honors, from Brandeis University and her J.D. degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She is admitted to practice in both New York and Connecticut.
Susie McGregor-Huyer is the founder and principal of Medical Damages, based in St. Paul, Minnesota. Medical Damages is a life care planning and nurse consulting business designed to assist attorneys and insurance companies in looking both forward and backward in medically related cases in the areas of personal injury, workers compensation and medical malpractice. Ms. McGregor-Huyer has both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in nursing. Post graduate educational experience includes legal nurse consulting, forensic nursing, Medicare set asides, nurse life care planning, geriatrics and case management. Ms. McGregor-Huyer also has experience as a paramedic, emergency and critical care nursing, and is currently clinically active in Hospice and assisted living/memory care. Affiliations include American Association of Nurse Life Care Planners, International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals, Juris Education, Research and Knowledge, and PATH International. She is a frequent lecturer to paralegals and attorneys in the areas of nursing, medical records analysis and ethics.
D. Corey Rieck is the president, founder and partner of LTCcompass, a division of the World Insurance Association, that focuses exclusively on long term care education and enrollments for consumers, agents, business owners, and companies alike. LTCcompass operates in all 50 states and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Rieck also serves as the National Director of Long Term Care Operations for the World Insurance Association, a master general agent that provides insurance products, training and marketing support for agents nationwide. In 2001, he founded LTCcompass to devote the remainder of his career to long term care. This decision was largely influenced by his experience witnessing firsthand what happens to a family when a member with poor health does not have long term care insurance. When his mother was in her late forties, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and rendered uninsurable. In order to save others from the challenges his family faced, Mr. Rieck devotes considerable time to community-based education. He regularly serves as a speaker for speaking engagements that clear the fog and dispel the myths surrounding long term care. Mr. Rieck also spends a great deal of time educating long term care professionals. As one of four full time trainers for the long term care industry's premier long term care designation, CLTC (Certified in Long Term Care), he trains agents in all 50 states. Since 2003, Mr. Rieck has successfully trained over 1,000 agents on how to properly assist their clients with long term care planning. Insurance carriers and the industry regard him as one of the key thought leaders in long term care planning education and implementation for consumers and businesses. He earned his BBA degree from the University of Iowa and his master's degree from University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Prior to founding LTCcompass, he worked in the pharmaceutical industry and achieved numerous awards for his top performance in sales and training for companies such as A.H. Robbins Pharmaceutical Company, Athena Neurosciences, and DENTSPLY Implant. In 1999, he entered the insurance business as a financial planning services professional with Mass Mutual, and by 2001 decided to focus entirely on long term care planning.
Angela M. Rinehart is an attorney with Stoll Keenon Ogden PLLC, where she practices in the Health Care Practice Group at Katz Korin Cunningham. She focuses her practice on the defense of health care providers, namely long-term care providers, in cases alleging medical malpractice in courts throughout the state of Indiana. In addition, Ms. Rinehart assists with the appellate briefs for the Health Care Practice Group, including the Correctional Health Care Practice Group, where she represents medical professionals in the correctional setting, primarily in cases alleging medical malpractice and civil rights violations in federal court. She earned her B.A. degree from Butler University and her J.D. degree from Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Ms. Rinehart is admitted to practice in Indiana, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
