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Workplace Safety & OSHA
When you call on Squire Sanders for counsel on workplace health and safety issues, you benefit from experience gained over many decades. We have been a leader in workplace health and safety for nearly a century, counseling and defending clients since the inception of the workers' compensation laws in 1912. Our experience includes drafting legislation, chairing advisory councils, handling sophisticated self-insurance and reinsurance matters and providing counseling and defense of workplace safety and health claims. Our extensive work in labor relations and human resources enables us to provide a multidimensional analysis to a workplace safety or health concern. Many workplace safety and health concerns affect critical areas associated with employment such as the Americans With Disabilities Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, employment discrimination and union relations. Our lawyers have the depth of experience necessary to see not only a safety or health concern, but to see and understand the larger issues surrounding such concerns.
Examples of client work done in this area include:
- Developing and implementing a global defense strategy to handle nearly 1,500 asbestos cases filed subsequent to multiple plant closings. This groundbreaking strategy resulted in all but a small handful of the claims being dismissed.
- Litigating successor liability issues arising from a corporate transaction in which the seller was cleared of any ongoing liability for the workers' compensation claims, saving the client potentially millions of dollars in unanticipated liability.
- Defending occupational toxic exposures claims including claimed exposures to mold, asbestos, silica, magnesium, cadmium, benzene, formaldehyde, lead and other toxic chemicals.
- Counseling and defending clients on ergonomic related issues and cumulative trauma disorders.
- Defending multiple clients in hearings concerning the revocation of self-insurance status saving potentially millions of dollars.
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Experienced lawyers recognized by The Best Lawyers in America for labor and employment law.
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