Commonwealth Court Addresses Attorney Fee Disputes in Workers' Comp Case

The case highlights the court’s approach to resolving disputes over attorney fees between successive counsel, while also addressing procedural and constitutional concerns that arise in these ...
Forbes

What To Do If Your Workers’ Compensation Claim Is Denied

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

State workers’ comp attorneys undefeated but underutilized

Last year, the Nevada Attorney for Injured Workers (NAIW) agency, which has nine attorneys in Las Vegas, four attorneys in ...
JD Supra

Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board Violates Long-standing Workers’ Compensation Principles by Overturning Credibility Findings Made by a Worker’s Compensation Judge.

The claimant suffered a work injury to her right thumb in the nature of a strain/sprain. The injury was later expanded by the workers’ compensation judge to include a right ulnar collateral ligament ...
Altoona Mirror

Court upholds workers’ comp for firefighter

HARRISBURG — Commonwealth Court upheld the finding of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, which ruled that a former volunteer firefighter should get workers’ comp benefits due to cancer linked to ...
JD Supra

Commonwealth Court Affirms Workers’ Compensation Judges’ Authority to Amend Injury Description Under Section 413(a) Despite Initial Notice of Compensation Payable Limitation

Factory Grinding Service, Inc. and SWIF v. Lane Hanna, FoodPrep Solutions, LLC/Factory Grinding Service, Inc., and Berkshire Hathaway ...
Law

Abolish a Workers' Comp Appeals Board: Yes or No?

What would life be like without the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board in Pennsylvania? Less workers' comp litigation, of course. Or would there be? An agency of the state Legislature has recommended ...

Markhoff & Mittman, P.C. Announces Workers Compensation Practice Update

Our responsibility is to ensure that case handling reflects the rules and timelines currently in effect so claims can be ...