WORKERS' COMPENSATION SERVICES
Reinisch Mackenzie, P.C.
Reinisch Mackenzie offers a comprehensive array of services to assist insurers, self-insured employers and service companies in the constantly changing area of workers' compensation.
Defense Litigation and Appellate Services
Oregon. Our experienced group of litigators based in Portland regularly defends workers' compensation claims on behalf of employers and insurers throughout Oregon in claims involving everything from conventional soft-tissue injuries to complex issues of toxic exposure or mental disorders. We also offer our litigation clients comprehensive pre-hearing services, including compensability determinations, hearings work-up, exposure assessments, expert depositions, settlement negotiations and, of course, appearances before the workers' compensation Administrative Law Judges. After the hearing, the Reinisch Mackenzie appellate department features attorneys who specialize exclusively in the briefing and oral advocacy skills necessary to defend close wins or obtain tough reversals on review before the Oregon Workers' Compensation Board, Court of Appeals and Supreme Court.
Washington. Our Washington litigators offer the personal attention and aggressive approach necessary to effectively represent employers in today’s challenging self-insured environment. Our attorneys have developed effective working relationships with all levels of the Washington Department of Labor and Industries and the Board of Industrial Insurance Appeals to ensure the best possible results. Reinisch Mackenzie is also one of the few Pacific Northwest firms to offer workers' compensation defense services from offices based in both Seattle and Portland, enabling us to provide responsive, cost-effective representation to all sectors of the Washington business community on a statewide basis.
Regulatory Services
Few industries endure more intrusive and complex regulation than workers' compensation. Unlike other workers' compensation firms, Reinisch Mackenzie has specialists who have spent years developing familiarity with those regulations (and the regulators) to assist employers and insurers involved in medical treatment disputes, vocational assistance disputes, processing audits, reimbursement disputes and other related proceedings. In addition, as an industry service, attorneys regularly contribute time to participate on legislative and administrative task forces to help block or shape new regulations, and provide advance alerts to our clients of impending changes.
Claims Training & Certification
Oregon Examiner Certification. Reinisch Mackenzie is the only Pacific Northwest law firm to offer quarterly day and night courses to clients seeking to qualify new workers' compensation examiners for Oregon certification. Hundreds of examiners, human resources managers and others have graduated from our Basic Workers’ Compensation Claims Examiner Certification Course, which was the first to be approved by the Workers Compensation Division in 1990.
“Nuts & Bolts” Processing Seminars. Our annual “Nuts & Bolts” Seminars are co-sponsored by the Workers’ Compensation Claims Association and the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Division to provide practical advice regarding new caselaw, statutory and rule developments over the previous year.
On-Site CLEs. Reinisch Mackenzie attorneys regularly accept invitations to speak on-site regarding topics requested by our clients in sessions that qualify for continuing education credit hours. We also frequently participate in such sessions for organizations such as the Oregon State Bar Workers’ Compensation Section, the Oregon Workers’ Compensation Claims Association and the Washington Self-Insurers Association.
