About Us

SMS specializes in workers’ compensation defense, providing experienced representation to employers, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators throughout California. Our practice also includes statewide workers’ compensation subrogation services, comprehensive training programs, and special projects. We also handle ADR/Union carve out programs.

Our firm maintains a high file closure rate, and we take pride in resolving cases within our settlement authority, with most files closing within the first 6 to 12 months. Upon request, we provide clients with detailed performance reports highlighting file closure rates and successful settlement outcomes. Our attorneys have decades of experience and frequently appear at every WCAB in the State of California. We specialize in different types of employers and industries including public entities/cities, municipalities, school districts, hospitals, agriculture and farming, trucking, construction, joint powers, water districts, energy companies, restaurant, retail and customer service, nurseries, manufacturers, distributors, defense contractors, construction companies, and janitorial companies.

We are service minded, accessible, and responsible to the needs of the clients and the community we serve. We provide our clients with the advantages of personal service and attention afforded by a smaller firm coupled with the capabilities and expertise of a large firm. We utilize a mix of modern technology in the operation of our firm as well as time tested ethical caselaw, code and regulation research.

Our firm offers their services keeping in mind cost-effective strategies. Our attorneys all have excellent negotiation skills and recognize the importance of resolving cases economically and in accordance with our clients’ objectives. We have also assisted in the preparation of billing guidelines for a number of carriers. Guided by this philosophy, Siegel, Moreno & Stettler is able to provide excellent legal services on an economically attractive basis.

Siegel, Moreno & Stettler has also been instrumental in the pursuit of fraudulent claims throughout the insurance defense industry working hand in hand with the Department of insurance and various District Attorney offices “to prosecute such claims to the full extent of the law. Our firm maintains a high file closure rate, and we take pride in resolving cases within our settlement authority, with most files closing within the first 6 to 12 months. Upon request, we provide clients with detailed performance reports highlighting file closure rates and successful settlement outcomes.

If you have any questions concerning this information, please do not hesitate to call Jennifer McCaw or email her at jmccaw@siegelmoreno.com , our VP of Education and Client Relations. We look forward to serving you and the needs of your company.