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...
With the stroke of her pen on November 3rd, Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Judge Sarah C. Makin ended, in part, our client’s decade-long ordeal that began with his paralysis due to a workplace injury and was compounded by his insurance company, Liberty Mutual,...
By Keld R. Wenge and Leslie Schumacher In the personal injury world, and in particular workers’ compensation cases, Workers’ Compensation Medicare Set-aside Arrangements (WCMSAs), better known as “Medicare set-asides” (MSAs) are an issue few lawyers enjoy dealing...
A few days before the jury’s verdict in the recent Johnny Depp–Amber Heard defamation trial you might have heard about, our firm received a favorable decision from a Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Judge in a case you surely didn’t hear about. In that case, the...
Philadelphia (PRWeb) April 13, 2022 – Jerry M. Lehocky, a founding partner of Pond Lehocky Giordano LLP, recently obtained a favorable decision from a Workers’ Compensation Judge on behalf of a widow whose husband passed away from COVID-19 after being exposed to...
Philadelphia (PRWeb) April 12, 2022 – Pond Lehocky Giordano LLP, the largest workers’ compensation and disability law firm in Pennsylvania, today announced it is accepting applications for the Pond Lehocky Giordano Annual Scholarship through June 10. The $5,000...
