Jennifer Hann Harrison

Jennifer represents employers in a broad range of employment and workers’ compensation matters, and she leads the Workers’ Compensation practice in Dayton. Her experience includes:

• Representing employers in accommodation, discrimination, retaliation, workers' compensation and wrongful discharge matters.
• Representing employers in manual classification and self-insured audits.
• Assisting employers with applications for self-insurance.
• Counseling employers on drug testing and drug free workplace programs.
• Advising companies on medical and recreational marijuana laws.
• Responding to charges of discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Ohio Civil Rights Commission (OCRC).
• Conducting compliance and safety training.

Jennifer served on a Senate task force that was convened in 2009 to study privatization of the Ohio Workers’ Compensation System.

In addition, Jennifer serves as outside general counsel to closely held corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. An experienced litigator, Jennifer has successfully defended numerous cases before juries and to the bench. She regularly appears before administrative agencies, the Courts of Common Pleas, Ohio Appellate Courts and the Ohio Supreme Court.

• Led an investigation of allegations of clergy misconduct for a large religious institution.
• Defense jury verdict for a food manufacturer in a retaliatory discharge claim.
• Numerous defense verdicts in a workers’ compensation right to participate and extent of disability claims for companies in manufacturing, logistics and healthcare industries.