Workers' Compensation

Mr. Underdown has experience with workers' compensation in a variety of industries, including retail stores with groceries (i.e. meat cutters, night stockers and bakery). He also has experience with public entities including police, fire, and public works employees. The area of public employees presents some unique challenges because of the typical statutory requirement for full salary replacement for injured workers. In addition, there is the difficulty of managing workers' compensation claims for public safety employees with the possibility of disability retirements with full pay. In the ambulance industry, Mr. Underdown's experience includes dealing with workers' compensation premiums in some states as high as 25-50 percent of payroll.