In March 2015, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an opinion and order in the case of Brady v. Urbas, No. 74 MAP 2014. In that case, the plaintiff in that case had undergone four unsuccessful podiatric surgeries over a two year period to correct a “hammer toe”...
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Year: 2015
Supreme Court Upholds Bright-line Rule Prohibiting Discovery of Communications Between attorneys and expert witnesses
In Barrick v. Holy Spirit Hospital, 91 A.3d 680 (Pa. 2014), an evenly divided Supreme Court effectively upheld a Superior Court en banc decision recognizing a bright-line rule prohibiting discovery of communications between attorneys and expert witnesses. This...
The Last, Best List of Ways to Avoid Employee Lawsuits
Anyone who has ever done a Google search on this topic soon discovers that every lawyer who has ever represented an employer seems to have written their own “Top (insert number here) List” of ways to avoid employee lawsuits. So, at the risk of seeming redundant...
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)*
What is EDI? EDI release 3 is the computer-to-computer exchange of standard workers’ compensation data between companies and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. EDI standards were developed by the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions...