Top Workers Compensation Lawyers Near Me in Hartford Area

Samantha K. Levasseur focuses her practice on workers’ compensation and employment law defense. She has represented a diverse range of employers and insurers before the State of Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission, including self-insured employers, employers with large retentions and deductibles, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators. Her work has included defending complex cases related to occupational exposure, permanent total disability, widow/dependent benefits, death and claims of employment discrimination brought before the Workers’ Compensation Commission pursuant to C.G.S. 31-290a. Samantha has also argued on appeal from a formal hearing decision before the Connecticut Compensation Review Board.. As part of her employment law practice, in addition to the work she has done with the Workers’ Compensation Commission under C.G.S. 31-290a, Samantha has appeared before the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and Connecticut Superior Court to defend employers, both private and municipal, against allegations of discrimination and wrongful termination. She has also appeared in Connecticut Superior Court to represent clients in various personal injury matters.. While a student at University of Connecticut School of Law, Samantha was a member of the mock trial society and served for two years as co-president of the VIS International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Team. She also served as a notes and comments editor for the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal where her note, "Regional Shortcomings and Global Solutions: Kidnap and Ransom Insurance in Latin America," was published in the Journal’s Spring 2008 edition. Samantha spent a semester abroad at the University of Exeter School of Law, where she studied comparative law while simultaneously completing a research project on international defense trade between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Michael Schweitzer has dedicated his career to the defense of workers’ compensation claims. He leads Goldberg Segalla’s Connecticut workers’ compensation practice and brings to each matter extensive experience defending respondents before Connecticut’s Workers’ Compensation Commission; deposing claimants, witnesses, medical professionals, and other experts; and advising on all aspects of Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Law. He represents self-insured employers, employers with large retentions and deductibles, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators.. He is part of the Goldberg Segalla team that has developed its own comprehensive way of handling workers’ compensation claims designed to maximize quality of service and results. The team’s practice model includes keeping each file with the same attorney through the entire litigation process; providing pre-hearing and post-hearing reports that apprise the claim professional of future risk/exposure, the defense strategy, and any recent developments in the claim; and aggressively exploring settlement possibilities through stipulation agreements. Michael is the author of Goldberg Segalla’s Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Manual for Employers and Carriers, and he is pleased to provide a copy upon request.. Michael is also a proven trial lawyer who has obtained more than 10 first-chair jury and bench trial verdicts, successfully resolved high-exposure cases through alternative dispute resolution, and argued cases on appeal before the Connecticut Appellate Court. Michael has defended companies in multimillion-dollar actions stemming from motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, product liability, and other torts. This work has involved utilizing experts in accident reconstruction, vocational rehabilitation, economics, neuropsychology, and other fields to successfully defend complex and potentially high-value claims involving severe and catastrophic personal injuries.

Executive Counsel, Claim Legal - Workers Compensation, home office, Travelers.  Responsible for legal issues involving Medicare compliance, appellate review, insurance coverage, contracts, workflows and processes. I have spoken at dozens of national conferences and Webinars on Medicare Mandatory Insurer Reporting, Conditional Payment Recovery, Medicare Set-Aside Arrangements, insurance coverage, return-to-work and alternative work programs, claim management, and Foreign Voluntary and Global coverages.  Please contact me if you are in need of a presenter on these and any other topics related to workers compensation.. Any views expressed on Avvo or any other site represent my personal views and not those of my employer.  I have one client (Travelers) and nothing stated on these sites should be construed as legal advice or the creation of an attorney-client relationship.  You must consult your own attorney prior to taking or refraining from any action as a result of anything posted by me in the public square.

Board Certified Workers' Compensation Specialist for the State of Connecticut. Member Connecticut Bar Association including Sections Women in the Law, Workers' Compensation and Insurance law.

Andrew J. Even focuses his practice on representing large and small employers, insurance companies, and third-party administrators in workers’ compensation claims before the Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission. He advises clients throughout the claims process, including informal, pre-formal, and formal hearings, and is fluent in all stages of litigation, including conducting depositions.. Andrew gained valuable experience as a summer associate in the law and regulatory affairs department of a large international health insurer, where he conducted extensive research and analysis of health care reform issues, counseled clients on behavioral health insurance issues, and handled contracts. Andrew also served as a law clerk with the Massachusetts Port Authority Labor Relations Department, where he drafted management responses to disciplinary and contractual grievances and aided with arbitration hearings and collective bargaining resolutions.. Before entering law school, Andrew earned a bachelor’s from Saint Anselm College. He went on to graduate with his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, where he participated in the Health Law Clinical Program and served as chief case law comment editor for the Journal of Health and Biomedical Law.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.

Experienced Workers Compensation attorney serving clients in Hartford and surrounding areas.