Samantha House

samantha benjamin-house is an av-rated attorney who specializes in defending employers’ and insurance carriers’ interests in workers’ compensation claims in kansas, and missouri. her expertise in defending claims begins with educating her clients in ways to reduce their number of claims and how to minimize their overall exposure. due to being licensed in several states, she can educate her client on the exposure in the various jurisdictions to develop the best defense strategy to reduce the overall exposure. samantha’s expertise includes successfully defending issues involving jurisdiction, occupational diseases, statute of limitations defense, safety defense, and other litigation matters. she has successfully argued before the various appellate levels in missouri, oklahoma, and kansas including the courts of appeal. she is an avid speaker with many presentations performed yearly, including speaking at both the state of kansas and state of missouri’s annual workers’ compensation seminars. when samantha is not representing the interests of employers and insurance carriers, she is very active in the community. as a shareholder with mcanany, van cleave & phillips, p.a., she has sat on the missouri bar association’s board of directors and is a member of the kansas city metropolitan bar association’s workers’ compensation committee. she was the 2006 recipient of the lawyers association of kansas city’s public service award. she is an active board member in a not for profit mental health agency. in her free time she enjoys fishing, gourmet cooking and traveling with her family.