A Case of Mistaken Identity

By Michael Adreani, Esq.

Many times people have mistaken me for a workers’ compensation attorney. While I have respect for the workers’ compensation bar and have worked with, opposed and socialized with many fine workers’ compensation attorneys, I am not one and that is not Roxborough, Pomerance & Nye (RPN).

So why do people often ask me if I’m “that workers’ compensation attorney?”

Granted, RPN’s name comes up often in the context of workers’ compensation. We are constantly quoted in workers’ compensation journals and news briefings. Any legal database search of “workers’ compensation” and Roxborough will generally yield any number of results. But what we do is not “workers’ compensation law.” We are not in the trenches at the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board fighting over PD rates or average weekly wages.

In fact, our specialties are much more closely aligned with “employment law” than with workers’ compensation. After all, what is more germane to you as an employer than ensuring that your employees are provided all the benefits they are entitled to for a workplace injury while at the same time looking out for your interests? “Your interests” include ensuring that the carrier lives up to its contractual obligations, negotiating policies, terms, renewals and collateral reviews and, if necessary, litigating matters on your behalf before the Superior and Administrative Courts.

Our services do not stop there. We also offer California businesses a wide variety of workers’ compensation cost containment services, such as the services of our audit team. Recently, RPN has been expanding to assist clients with national market interests in multiple states and working with the employer community at large to sponsor and support legislation that benefits our clients. Our corporate division assists those same clients in fashioning strategies that fit our “cost containment” model. Overall, we are truly with California businesses “every step of the way.”

Several examples of how RPN works in conjunction with workers’ compensation insurance are present in this edition of Frontline. Aldon Bolanos writes about how employers can avoid discrimination claims against their workers’ compensation and Craig Pynes writes about arbitration agreements and workers’ compensation policies. The remaining articles in this edition focus on litigation and cost containment issues that affect every employer, not just those with workers’ compensation issues.

I encourage our Frontline readers to review this publication and our web site (www.rpnalaw.com) with an eye towards their global needs as employers. Have a great summer!

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