Workers' Compensation

Our workers’ compensation attorneys defend the interests of employers and their workers’ compensation carriers in Minnesota and in Iowa. We provide advice before claims occur as well as provide effective defense if a workers’ compensation claim is contested. Our attorneys practice before the specialized workers’ compensation administrative agencies as well as the designated appellate courts.   Our clients include one of the largest retailers in the world all the way down to family farms and other small businesses.  Regardless of the size of your business or the difficulty of the claims, our attorneys will help you navigate successfully through the choppy waters of workers’ compensation claims.  

• Providing employers with guidance for policies and strategies to minimize their workers’ compensation liabilities from their injured workers and to assist in a safe and effective return to work by their injured workers, when possible
• Defending our clients before the administrative bodies which hear and decide workers’ compensation disputes
• Prosecuting appeals of adverse workers’ compensation decisions from the administrative bodies to the appellate courts
• Providing insurer’s claims adjusters with advice and counsel to allow for efficient, accurate, and timely claims adjusting
• Assisting in the recovery of subrogation interests by employer and their insurers when third parties cause the work injuries
• Defending business owners against claims that they were uninsured for purposes of their workers’ compensation liability