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About Us
The NWCDN is a nationwide and Canadian network of independent law firms created to provide an organization where
reputable law firms of the highest reputation and expertise could form a comprehensive network to provide employers and
insurers access to the highest quality representation in workers' compensation and related employer liability fields.
NWCDN members are committed to providing quality, up-to-date and cost effective legal representation to their clients while
adhering to the highest ethical standards of the legal profession. NWCDN itself is committed to the presentation of quality
programs and information to member firms and clients that wish to use the network for access to legal representation,
advice and expertise.
With members located in major cities throughout the United States and Canada, the National Workers' Compensation Defense
Network combines a national perspective with an awareness of local workers' compensation law and practice. NWCDN
includes one of the largest law firms in Canada, Heenan Blaikie LLP, which is of benefit to those employers
in the United States and Canada who have employees working in and subject to the workers' compensation laws
of both countries.
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Chicago Seminar Photographs October 2010 (Click to enlarge.)
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The Fall 2010 Workers' Compensation Seminar in Chicago was a complete success!
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A month shy of 100 years ago, on November 10, 1910, the Conference of Commissioners on Compensation for Industrial Accidents met in Chicago. Over the course of 3 days the Conference adopted the model Workmen's Compensation Act. Compensation was set at a minimum of $5. per week and a maximum of $100. The Act's jurisprudence, according to P. Tecumseh Sherman, writing in the October 1915 University of Pennsylvania Law Review, was that the employer owed his employee not only a living wage, but also assurance against a loss of that wage through misfortune. The Conference was attended by representatives of the U.S. Government and Bureau of Labor, the Committee on Uniform State Laws, and -- Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, NJ, NY, Ohio, Washington, and Wisconsin.
From these beginnings we stand here 100 years later and salute these men. (There were no women!) Adopting the enshrined principle of workers' compensation causation, BUT FOR them we would not be here...Cheers!
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