Navigating the Minefield of Workers Compensation

Navigating the Minefield of Workers’ Compensation: Practical tips for reporting claims, dealing with injured employees, and reducing your workers’ compensation costs. 

Whether you are a small business or a large business with many employees, this presentation will provide you with practical advice from an experienced workers’ compensation attorney on:
 

1) investigating whether a claimed injury is legitimate or questionable
2) reporting an injury to your insurance company
3) communicating with injured workers (and how not to)
4) producing personnel and wage records
5) bringing injured employees back to work
6) understanding how litigation and settlement may impact your business and bottom line.   
 

Presented by Elizabeth Chambers-Brown, Chambers Brown Law, Sauk Centre, MN
 
Elizabeth Chambers-Brown is an accomplished attorney with more than 18 years of Minnesota workers’ compensation litigation experience.   After graduating from the University of St. Thomas School of Law in 2006, Elizabeth worked as an insurance defense attorney for many years, representing large and small employers and their insurance companies in workers’ compensation cases.  Elizabeth left a large law firm in the Twin Cities and opened her own practice in the Alexandria area in 2023.  Elizabeth now represents both injured workers as well as employers and insurers, and this experience gives her keen insight into the pitfalls parties can face when dealing with difficult workers’ compensation cases.  Elizabeth understands how complicated and frustrating the workers’ compensation system can be and welcomes the opportunity to help other businesses in the community understand the process and mitigate their expenses by drawing on her knowledge and experience.