Services

We represent state-funded and self-insured employers both administratively and before the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, the Industrial Commission of Ohio and various Ohio courts. Our lawyers have extensive experience in defending the allowance of claims, extent of disability issues, permanent partial disability, permanent total disability, specific safety requirement violations, claim settlement, applications for self-insurance, non-complying employer liability and investigation of fraudulent industrial claims. Our practice covers all aspects of workers’ compensation claims and workplace safety issues involving workers’ compensation, including intentional tort claims. Our goal is to help businesses minimize costs associated with industrial injuries and diseases.

Recent Representative Services

• Representing and counseling clients in a number of different industries, including governmental entities, small companies, and Fortune 500 companies.
• Representing employers before the Industrial Commission of Ohio regarding issues of allowance, permanent partial disability, permanent total disability, temporary total disability, wage loss compensation, medical treatment, and violations of specific safety requirements.
• Representing employers in the Courts of Appeals and Supreme Court of Ohio on challenges of an Industrial Commission’s award of permanent and total disability compensation, temporary total disability compensation, and other extent of disability issues.
• Representing employers in Ohio Common Pleas Court on issues involving the allowance of a claim. Experience includes successful representation of employers in workers’ compensation cases to jury verdict, obtaining favorable settlements, and winning cases on summary judgment.

Recent Representative Matters

• Won a jury verdict on behalf of an employer in connection with a claim by an employee that he had sustained a deformity of his knee as a direct and proximate result of his employment.
• Won a jury verdict on behalf of an employer in connection with a claim by an employee that he had sustained a herniated lumbar disc as a direct and proximate result of his employment.
• Won summary judgment on behalf of an employer in connection with a claim by an employee that he had sustained cancer as a direct and proximate result of his employment.
• Won summary judgment on behalf of an employer in connection with a claim by an employee that he had sustained various injuries to his shoulder as a direct and proximate result of his employment.
• Obtained reversal of BWC premium charge due to manual classification retro rate of employer, in the amount of $250,000.00, through BWC adjudicatory challenge and protest.

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