Workers Compensation Defense

Experience

For 30 years, we have represented corporations and insurers and employers in workers’ compensation matters in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Workers’ compensation laws are complex and ever-changing. Our workers’ compensation group, is uniquely an all-female team, focusing its practice to provide excellent legal services to the firm’s clients.

Our workers’ compensation defense practice involves:

• Counsel to our clients’ claims professionals
• Guidance to employers on policies and strategies to minimize liabilities from injured workers and, where possible, planning how the employee can return to work
• Complex questions of liability allocation
• Personal injury defense
• Trial and settlement strategy
• Trial hearings
• Mediation and arbitration
• Appellate practice at the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals and the Minnesota Supreme Court
• Excess insurance coverage
• Reimbursement
• Subrogation
• Fraud
• Indemnity
• Intervention proceedings
• Coverage B matters
• Interplay relationship with related civil litigation involving employer liability, contribution
• Exclusive remedy provisions of the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Act

We have handled a wide range of matters in Workers’ Compensation, including but not limited to:

• Asbestos claims
• Coordination of benefits
• Coverage disputes
• Cumulative trauma
• Employment disputes
• Jurisdictional issues
• Medical disputes
• Multiple injury claims
• Occupational disease
• Permanent total disability claims
• Rehabilitation disputes
• Repetitive activity injuries
• Spinal injuries

The firm serves as Portfolio Network Counsel for a group of major property and casualty insurers, handling all workers’ compensation cases in Minnesota.

In addition to defending numerous insurance companies, Brownson PLLC has defended major self-insured employers in Workers’ Compensation matters. In that role, our attorneys have advised, directed strategy, and defended employers against several hundred occupational disease claims over a period of several years.