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The Pennsylvania House of Representatives has passed legislation that will significantly increase workers’ compensation costs in Pennsylvania. House Bill 930 seeks to amend the provisions of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act addressing disfigurement...
Ralph Martin Construction and Lackawanna American Insurance Co. v. Miquel Castaneda- Escobar (WCAB) ___ A.3D___, No. 341 C.D.2021 (Pa. Cmwlth filed 8/1/22). In a case of first impression, the Court addressed Employer’s appeal from the WCAB Decision which held that the...
Theresa Skay v. Borjeson & Maizel LLC(WCAB) ___A.3D___ (Pa. Cmwlth. filed 5/10/22; reported 7/26/22) No 999 C.D. 2021. As we know Employers have been in a quandary since the 2020 Commonwealth Court’s decision in Workers’ First Pharmacy Services, LLC v. Bureau of...
PLEASE NOTE: The following important Notice was published via WCAIS on 01/14/2022: Notification of Suspension or Modification (LIBC-751) Revised On Dec. 22, 2021, Governor Tom Wolf signed Act 95 (House Bill 1837) into law. This act amended Section 413(c) & (d)...
On January 7, 2022, a three judge panel of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued a decision in the case of Sadler v. Philadelphia Coca-Cola (WCAB), 1294 C.D. 2020, which addressed four primary legal issues. The court’s opinion was extremely lengthy and...
On January 3, 2022, a panel of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania issued its Opinion in the case of Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit No. 21 v. Kimberly Waardal (WCAB), 750 C.D. 2021, in which the employer requested a credit against workers’ compensation benefits...
Section 440(a) of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act provides: In any contested case where the insurer has contested liability in whole or in part, including contested cases involving petitions to terminate, reinstate, increase, reduce or otherwise modify...
According to statistics published by the PA Department of Labor & Industry, 14,013 new workers’ compensation claims were filed alleging to exposure to the COVID-19 virus during 2020. As of this writing, 7,284 such claims have been filed this year. Like any claim...
On March 10, 2021, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania decided the case of Beaver Valley Slag, Inc. v. Marchionda (WCAB), No. 867 C.D. 2020, which effectively held that a previously executed Third Party Settlement Agreement (TPSA) could be modified to disallow...
How much time does an injured employee have to report a work-related injury to his or her employer? Section 311 of the PA Workers’ Compensation Act provides: Unless the employer shall have knowledge of the occurrence of the injury, or unless the employe or someone in...