Workers’ Compensation

Overview

LGWM’s Workers’ Compensation Practice Group’s attorneys represent a wide range of clients across the state, including large and small employers, workers’ compensation insurance carriers, self-insured workers’compensation funds and third party administrators relating to claims for benefits under the Alabama Workers’ Compensation Act. LGWM also has an active role in various workers’ compensation organizations, with its attorneys serving as members of the Alabama State Bar Workers’ Compensation Section, Alabama Workers’ Compensation Organization and Alabama Self Insured Association.

Our experience spans all types of workers’ compensation claims, including claims for scheduled and unscheduled bodily injuries, emotional injuries, catastrophic or fatal injuries, exposure claims, Medicare set-asides, repetitive traumas (such as carpal tunnel syndrome) and occupational diseases. LGWM also defends pneumoconiosis claims under the Federal Black Lung Act. LGWM further defends a wide range of claims ancillary to worker’s compensation claims, including claims for outrage, bad faith and retaliatory discharge.

In addition to litigating workers’ compensation cases, we also advise clients on developing, drafting and implementing personnel and workers’ compensation policies and procedures ensuring effective employment relations and compliance with Alabama and Federal law. From counseling to pre-litigation settlements to trial, LGWM successfully handles all of its clients’ workers’ compensation needs.