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Recent Posts from Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Lawyer Blog

• Employers’ Ability to Change Modified-Duty Job Tasks Permissible in PA Workers’ Comp

  When an injured worker in Pennsylvania is physically unable to perform his or her time-of-injury job, due to a work injury, the burden falls to the employer to prove the existence of a job that…

• Philadelphia Housing Authority Patrol Officer Denied Workers’ Compensation Benefits When Shot, Because He Failed to Follow Proper Police Procedure

  In PA, an injured employee is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits only when the injury takes place while the employee is in the scope and course of his or her employment. Often, this is something…

• PA Workers‘ Compensation Appeal Board Reduced

  When an aggrieved party wants to appeal a decision of a Workers’ Compensation Judge in PA, the first step is to the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (WCAB). Until recently, the WCAB was comprised of…

• MRI Does Not Always Explain Pain And Other Symptoms

  In the PA Workers’ Compensation system, we often see the workers’ comp insurance company doctors employ a fanatical reliance on “objective” diagnostic studies, at least when the results are negative. These doctors who perform Independent…

• Modification of Workers’ Compensation Benefits in PA, Based on IRE, May Require Job Availability to be Shown

  In a case that has been working its way through the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation system for some time now, the Supreme Court has accepted appeal in the matter of Diehl v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board…

• Labor Market Surveys and Earning Power Assessments When The Injured Worker Lives Outside Pennsylvania

  In year’s past, before 1996, when a workers’ compensation insurance carrier wanted to reduce an injured worker’s benefits in PA, the insurance carrier had to refer the injured worker to jobs, which then had to…

• Injured Worker Terminated For Misconduct Prior to Work Injury Can Lose Workers’ Comp Rights in PA as a Result

  When a worker is injured in Pennsylvania, he or she is generally entitled to workers’ compensation benefits when wages are lost due to the injury. Whether this loss in wages is actually due to the…

• Second Work-Related Injury in PA Does Not Add Second Period of Partial Disability

  While there is no limit to the period of time an injured worker in Pennsylvania can receive workers’ compensation benefits for total disability, the same is not true for partial disability. In PA, an injured…

• IRE in PA Workers’ Comp Cannot Be Challenged on Validity After Appeal Period of Notice of Change Expires

  In PA workers’ compensation, there is no limit to how long an injured worker can receive total disability benefits. Once an injured worker receives total disability benefits for a period of 104 weeks, however, the…

• Pain Relief May Soon Get Safer and Easier

  Handling Pennsylvania workers’ compensation cases, we see a wide variety of work injuries. From problems with the neck and the back, to shoulders, elbows, knees, hands and everywhere in between. The one constant, though, is…