Workers’ Compensation
At Jardine, Logan & O’Brien, P.L.L.P., we have a team of attorneys prepared to handle your workers’ compensation dispute. By concentrating our efforts on representing insurance companies and self-insured employers, our workers’ compensation attorneys provide clients with valuable resources before a claimed injury, throughout the involved proceedings, and into administering long-term benefits for employees.
Since the most important time during a workers’ compensation matter is at the employee’s initial filing of an injury claim and prior to a typical attorney’s involvement, providing up-to-date information to employers about the workers’ compensation laws and the potential ramifications of establishing benefits is crucial. Workers’ compensation is not a fault-based system. Benefits are based upon whether or not an injury “arose out of” employment. Understanding the type of injuries that fall under this unclear terminology is vital for employers managing workers’ compensation benefits. The attorneys at Jardine, Logan & O’Brien, P.L.L.P. recognize the value of and work with employers to help identify the issues that arise with their employee-claimants’ psychological and repetitive injury cases, as well as the importance of distinguishing between permanent and temporary disability and partial and total disability.
With workers’ compensation attorneys licensed in Minnesota and Wisconsin, our lawyers have represented clients at all stages of workers’ compensation proceedings, from the first rounds of interim administrative conferences at the Workers’ Compensation Division, through the formal evidentiary hearings at the Office of Administrative Hearings through the appellate review at the Workers’ Compensation Court of Appeals and at the Minnesota Supreme Court.
Representative Cases
- Romero v. St. Paul Ramsey Med. Ctr., No. WC04-275 (Minn. WCCA 2005)
- Burcalow v. Tweeten Lutheran Health Case Ctr., No. WC04-252 (Minn. WCCA 2005)
- Johnson v. Regions Hosp., No. WC04-130 (Minn. WCCA 2004)
- Cook v. Arnold Meml. Health Ctr., No. WC04-123 (Minn. WCCA 2004)
- Banken v. Lac Qui Parle Coop Oil, 672 N.W.2d 203 (Minn. 2003)
- Vezina v. Best Western Inn Maplewood, 627 N.W.2d 324 (Minn. 2001)
Workers’ Compensation Law Attorneys
- Bandt, Matthew P.
- Crom, Timothy S.
- Cummings, Thomas L.
- Flick, Eugene J.
- Fonken, Mark A.
- Gillin, Charles E.
- Kennedy, John M. Jr.
- Kuehner, George W.
- Linnihan, Gerald M.
- Misurek, Thomas J.
Publications
- 2009 Periodic Table of Basic Workers’ Compensation Elements
- Vocational Rehabilitation for the injured worker in Minnesota from the perspective of the Employer and Insurer
- Retraining and Permanent Total Disability Under the Minnesota Workers’ Compensation Act
- JLO Legal • Ease Spring 2009 - Independent Contractor Exemption Certificates
- JLO Legal • Ease Winter 2007 - Medicare Set-Asides: Part One
- JLO Legal • Ease Spring 2007 - Releases: A Primer -Medicare Set-Asides: Part Two
- JLO Legal • Ease Winter 2006 - Interplay of the ADA and the WCA -Retraining - The “Last Resort”