by Samuel H. Pond | Jun 7, 2024 | Advice for Attorneys
In light of two Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court decisions, Neves v. Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd. (Am. Airlines), 232 A.3d 996 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2020), and Williams v. City of Phila. (Workers’ Comp. Appeal Bd.), 2024 Pa. Commw. LEXIS 89, workers’ compensation...
by Samuel H. Pond | Apr 23, 2024 | Advice for Attorneys, News
I have written in the past about the failure of punitive damages to have the deterrent effect they were designed to have. Rather than deter intentional harm or egregious behavior, the threat punitive damages pose is seemingly ignored by corporations and employers who...
by Samuel H. Pond | Sep 29, 2023 | Case Investigations, Workers' Compensation
COVID-19 exposed many ugly truths. A poignant one is that the hardest working people in our society will be on the front lines during a pandemic. Frontline/essential workers, like nurses, grocery store clerks, and public transportation workers, put their lives on the...
by Samuel H. Pond | Jan 17, 2023 | Workers' Compensation
Attorneys, as creatures of precedent and habit, can be lulled into believing that a way to do something is the way to do it simply because that’s the customary way it has been done. It’s one thing when support for such a custom can be found in a statute, regulation,...
by Samuel H. Pond | Dec 13, 2022 | Workers' Compensation
I recently lamented in these pages that punitive damages and other legal penalties far too often fail to deter the behavior they were intended to deter. I noted one reason for this is because fact finders rarely make use of the tools they have at their disposal to...
