by Melissa Chandy | Mar 6, 2024 | Workers' Compensation
The Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (“Act”) is a remedial statute intended to benefit Pennsylvania’s workers, which Pennsylvania courts have liberally construed to effectuate this objective. Under the Act, when an employee is injured on the job and cannot work...
by Ashleigh Gallagher | Jan 12, 2024 | Workers' Compensation
This past May, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, in Fegley v. Firestone Tire & Rubber, 291 A.3d 940, ruled that while the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (WCA) does not require insurers to cover injured workers’ medical marijuana costs when insurers are...
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 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 Pond Lehocky Giordano | Feb 24, 2023 | News, Workers' Compensation
In two recent lawsuits involving deceased SEPTA employees who died after contracting COVID-19 at work, Pond Lehocky Giordano’s legal team, led by Samuel H. Pond, secured lifelong workers’ compensation benefits for the surviving spouses of those...
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,...
