Katherine G. Letzter is a Board-Certified Workers’ Compensation attorney who manages the workers’ compensation practice in the firm’s Tampa office. She joined Conroy Simberg in 1995 and has devoted her practice exclusively to the defense of workers’ compensation matters. She became Board Certified in Workers’ Compensation Law by The Florida Bar in 2011.
Prior to beginning her legal career, Katherine worked as a registered nurse in the surgical intensive care and open-heart unit at North Shore University Hospital in New York. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989 and was a member of Sigma Theta Tau, the international honor society of nursing. She continues to hold a Registered Professional Nurse license in the State of New York.
Katherine earned her Juris Doctor from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 1994. In addition to Florida, she is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey and before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey.
Education:
- J.D., Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
- Dean’s List
- Health and Law Society
- B.S., State University of New York at Stony Brook
- National Honor Society for Nursing – Sigma Theta Tau
- Volunteer, Community Hospital of Western Suffolk
Honors & Distinctions:
- Board Certified Specialist in Workers’ Compensation, Florida, 2011
- AV® Preeminent™ rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Representative Experience:
- Rangel v. J. Sanchez Contractors/USIS
- The Judge of compensation claims denied the claimant’s claim for permanent total disability benefits.
- Baker v. Network Synergy, Inc./Summit/Florida Retail Federation, SIF
- The claimant was not found to have suffered any compensable accident leading to an injury in the course and scope of employment, while employed for Network Synergy.
- Sanderfer v. Accord Human Resources d/b/a Freedom Optimum Health Care/Lumberman’s Underwriting Alliance Claims Service
- The industrial accident was found to no longer be the major contributing cause of the claimant’s need for the treatment sought.