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Wisconsin Legislature Reforms Mental Injury Standard for Police and Firefighter PTSD Claims
Non-Traumatic Mental Injuries Under Wisconsin Worker’s Compensation A non-traumatic mental injury is a psychological injury a worker sustains in the course of his or her employment unrelated to any physical trauma, overuse of a body part, or exposure to a hazardous...
How to Correctly Claim the Child Tax Credit After a Divorce
How Divorcing Couples Should Claim the Child Tax Credit For parents going through a divorce, the issues involved in separating a household are numerous, ranging from property division and spousal support, to deciding how taxes will be paid the year the parties...
Attorney Aaron Halstead Wins Retirement Benefits for Public Safety Officers Union
Ashwaubenon Must Pay Officers Historic Retirement Benefits and Vacation Pay Hawks Quindel recently notched another victory for working people in Wisconsin. Appearing before the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission staff arbitrator, Attorney Aaron Halstead secured...
Medical and Workplace Law Challenges for COVID-19 Long Haulers
Legal Protection for Wisconsin COVID “Long Haulers” Unclear Under Workplace Laws 10% of COVID Patients Develop Long-Term Symptoms COVID 19 has infected more than 30 million Americans and over 649,000 Wisconsinites in just over a year. Approximately 10% of those people...
How Much is a Workplace Discrimination Claim Worth?
How Much is a Workplace Discrimination Claim Worth? When you’ve experienced harassment, discrimination, or a hostile working environment, chances are you want justice. The difficult truth is that “justice” is not something you can win in court. You can never be...
Charlton to Speak to Medical Residents on Negotiating their Employment Agreements.
Katherine Charlton will participate in a national webinar on April 6, 2021 giving tips to medical residents who will negotiate their first employment agreements with health care institutions. The Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) sponsors the webinar as a...
Anticipating Medicaid Liens in Denied Worker’s Compensation Cases
Using Medicaid to Cover Medical Treatment After Your Worker’s Compensation Claim is Denied If your employer’s worker’s compensation carrier concedes liability for a work injury, they will cover wage loss and any permanent disability benefits, as well as all medical...
The Overlap Between Worker’s Compensation and Personal Injury
When A Worker’s Compensation Case is Also a Personal Injury Case You are hurt at work when a machine malfunctions, and the injury is so severe that you cannot work for months. Thankfully, your employer says your injury is covered by employer’s worker’s compensation...
Hawks Quindel’s Generational Commitment to Election Protection
When I first started working for Hawks Quindel, Barbara Quindel and Michele Sumara were my supervising attorneys and my mentors. One of the first meetings they invited me to was an Election Protection Legal Coordinating Committee meeting. I was elated. In law school,...
Continued Assistance Act Extends and Changes Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
2021 Unemployment Update: What You Need to Know about the Continued Assistance Act In the face of continued strain resulting from the ongoing coronavirus situation, the Continued Assistance Act of 2020 (CAA) was enacted on December 27, 2020. This Act extends the...
Biometric Employee Data and Wisconsin Employment Law
Biometric Screening By Employers Can Pose Significant Threats to Workplace Privacy Employers increasingly use biometric screening as their preferred security option for employee access to workplaces. Fingerprint, handprint, facial recognition, and retina and iris...
How Worker’s Compensation Applies to At-Home Employees
WI Worker’s Compensation Covers Remote Employees Working from Home With the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many employees throughout Wisconsin transitioned from a traditional office setting to working remotely from home for the first time. Since then, new...
Congratulations!
Hawks Quindel, S.C. is proud to announce that our very own Katherine L. Charlton (employment & labor), Amy L. Shapiro (family), Aaron N. Halstead (worker’s compensation), Nicholas E. Fairweather (employment & labor), William E. Parsons, (employee benefits),...
Federal Wage and Hour Law Applies to Telework Arrangements
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, employees and employers alike are having to adjust to telework arrangements. Telework situations vary, but telework usually entails employees working from home instead of coming in daily to a traditional office. In terms of...
Health Insurance Deadlines Extended During COVID-19 Pandemic
Group Health Plans and COBRA Deadlines Extended During COVID-19 Pandemic COVID Pandemic Has Jeopardized Health Care Coverage for Millions Many businesses have been forced to lay off workers in response to the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. These...
WI Workers Compensation Claims Require Support from a Medical Doctor
The Practitioner Who Evaluates You Matters As the U.S. healthcare industry grows in complexity, healthcare professionals without traditional doctorates in medicine, like physician’s assistants and nurse practitioners, have increasingly assumed primary and specialized...
Family Law Article by Amy Shapiro and Kathy Charlton Is Published in the Wisconsin Journal of Family Law.
Milwaukee family law attorneys Amy Shapiro and Kathy Charlton authored “Pulkkila Highlights Enforcement Language in Marital Settlement Agreements” in the October, 2020 edition of the Wisconsin Journal of Family Law, a publication of the State Bar of Wisconsin. The...
Coronavirus-related family and sick leave benefits continue
As summer turns to fall, the coronavirus pandemic rages on. Despite continued high case counts across the country, some aspects of daily life have resumed: most businesses are open for in-person service to masked customers, doctor’s offices are resuming non-essential...
Worker’s Compensation for Disability or Death Due to COVID-19
Work-Related COVID-19 Infections are Covered Under the Wisconsin Worker’s Compensation Act COVID-19 has caused massive uncertainty not only in the workplace, but the everyday lives of those who have been affected by the disease. We have written previously regarding...
Attorney Summer Murshid Joins NELA Executive Board
Attorney Summer Murshid has joined the Board for the National Employment Lawyer’s Association for a three-year term. In doing so, she becomes part of an esteemed group of 24 attorneys from around the country who have dedicated their working lives to representing...
Wisconsin Now Allows Tip Pooling to Cooks and Dishwashers
Changes in Wisconsin Tip-Pooling Law: What you need to know if your employer practices tip-pooling The practice of tip-pooling has existed for decades in the Wisconsin service industry. In a nutshell, tip-pooling allows other employees who would not otherwise receive...
COVID-19 Screenings at Work and Employee Legal Rights
Employees Rights Regarding COVID-19 Screenings at Work The COVID-19 Pandemic has created one of the largest work disruptions in history, leaving public and private sectors alike to weigh difficult decisions regarding employees’ physical health and organizational...
What Are the Potential Consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Bostock?
This blog was drafted by Hayley Archer (Madison office) and Katherine Charlton (Milwaukee office). This article is the second of a two-part series that explains the recent landmark Supreme Court decision, Bostock v. Clayton, its dissents, and what it all means for...
Wisconsin Car Accident Report Guide: 6 Essential Steps
What to Do After a Wisconsin Car Accident The Wisconsin Department of Transportation estimates there are about 130,000 car crashes per year statewide. While the odds of you getting in a Wisconsin car crash in any given year are small (about 2%), over the course of...
Predicting How Much Money a Long Term Disability Lawsuit Is Worth
What Types of Damages Can a LTDI Lawsuit Possibly Win in Court? If you have exhausted the administrative remedies under your group long-term disability insurance plan, your next step is to file a lawsuit in court. Most people who find themselves in this position want...