WORKERS’ COMPENSATION /

UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION

Business enterprises today must address and comply with a wide variety of legal issues and requirements pertaining to Workers’ Compensation.  Employers should not be burdened with excessive legal costs pertaining to Workers’ Compensation.  We assist our clients in developing and administering programs to include proper procedure and management of safety concerns, coordinate benefit plans and defend contested claims.

 Experienced counsel in workers’ compensation law can help you:

• Represent employers at all levels of workers’ compensation spectrum, from hearings before the Industrial Commission to appeals in state court on all issues including:
  
  - Allowance
  - Additional allowance
  - Wage loss
  - Temporary Total
  - Setting wages
  - Percentage of Permanent and Partial Disability
  - Permanent Total Disability
  - VSSR – Violation of Specific Safety Requirement
  

• Represent employers in the administration of unemployment claims and represent the business interests before Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, the Review Commission, Court of Common Pleas and the Court of Appeals.
  

• Assist self-insured employers in the day-to-day administration of workers’ compensation claims; including processing fee bills, responding to all requests for treatment, allowances, and compensation.

We are experienced in counseling business owners, managers, and boards of directors on a wide range of workers’ compensation issues.

General Counsel for the Business Client  
Many of the business and corporate clients of Amer Cunningham Co., L.P.A., are small business owners, entrepreneurs and closely held corporations with whom we have ongoing relationships. We also represent Fortune 500 businesses in select practice areas. Our size enables us to provide personal attention to start-up and small businesses while also serving the legal needs of much larger enterprises.

We are extremely proud of the long relationships we have had with many of our clients. In many cases we work with successive generations in family businesses. We have many clients that we have represented since inception whose annual sales are counted in multiples of ten-million. We recognize that business people want not only high quality but also cost-effectiveness in legal services and we strive to deliver both.  

Related Areas  
In addition to providing high quality general corporate counsel, Amer Cunningham Co., L.P.A., also concentrates in the following areas of practice:

• Business Litigation and Appellate Practice

• Mergers and Acquisitions

• Real Estate Law

• Health Care Law

• Banking and Commercial Lending

• Employment Law

• Labor Law

• Pension and Profit-Sharing Plans

• Tax Law

• Estate Planning, Probate and Trusts

 If you are interested in further details on any of these practice areas, please ask your Amer Cunningham Co., L.P.A., attor­ney for a copy of the corresponding summary or for an appointment for consultation.

Amer Cunningham Co., L.P.A., has the experience and knowledge necessary to help you address the legal issues and requirements that accompany the workers’ compensation spectrum.