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Counsel Fees and Availability of Counsel for a Workers' Compensation Case: Different Rules for Employers and Claimants (Worker's Comp Focus)

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Title: Counsel Fees and Availability of Counsel for a Workers' Compensation Case: Different Rules for Employers and Claimants (Worker's Comp Focus)
Author : Insurance Advocate
Release Date : January 15, 2009
Genre: Industries & Professions,Books,Business & Personal Finance,
Pages : * pages
Size : 75 KB

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The attorneys who represent clients before the Workers Compensation Board are a very specialized and skilled group. Their practice requires them to be fluent in the Workers' Compensation Law and Regulations as well as to have working knowledge of other areas of the law. To counsel their clients they need an understanding of certain relevant parts of the law such as the Domestic Relations Law, Tax Law, Criminal Law and the Civil Practice Laws and Rules, just to mention a few. This is so regardless of whether they are representing the claimant or the employer. Generally, counsel that represent employers do not represent claimants, nor do claimants' counsel generally represent employers. Employers can engage an attorney usually through their workers' compensation insurance company if insured, or individually if self insured, and pay any agreed counsel fee. Fees to be paid for legal counsel and representation of the employer or the insurance carrier may be freely negotiated between the parties, and are not subject to approval by the Workers' Compensation Board.