by Jerry Lehocky | Dec 19, 2023 | Advice for Attorneys
The holiday season is already a bad time of year for recipients of workers’ compensation benefits, but many workers’ compensation insurance carriers engage in troubling conduct that makes it unbearable. Workers’ compensation benefits provide a critical financial...
by Jerry Lehocky | Oct 10, 2023 | Advice for Attorneys
For members of the workers’ compensation bar, insurers, physicians, expert witnesses, and anyone else who spends most their time in the Pennsylvania workers’ compensation universe, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s...
by Jerry Lehocky | Oct 6, 2023 | Firm News
On October 5, 2023, in front of hundreds of Bar members, friends, and family, Pond Lehocky Managing Partner Sam Pond was honored by the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association as the 42nd recipient of its annual Justice Michael A. Musmanno Award. Sam is the first...
by Jerry Lehocky | Jul 25, 2023 | Workers' Compensation
The workers’ compensation claimants’ bar should take a page from the personal injury plaintiffs’ bar and use life care plans more regularly. Failing to use a life care plan in an appropriate case does a disservice to an injured worker because these plans are effective...
by Jerry Lehocky | Apr 26, 2022 | Advice for Attorneys
As litigators across the region are seeing firsthand, local civil courts are assigning in-person trial dates at a rapid clip, attempting to make up for almost two years of sparse jury trials thanks to COVID-19. At the same time, local criminal courts have been focused...