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Information About Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Law

posted in |PA Workers’ Compensation

by Michael Cardamone | March 1, 2013

Below is a link that will give you the very basics about Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation. This area of the law is quite complex, however, and it is strongly recommended that you speak to an experienced Pennsylvania Work Comp Lawyer– not someone who dabbles in it, but whose entire practice is dedicated to protecting injured workers. I […]

Statutory Employer And Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation- The Expansion

posted in |Cases and Settlements

by Michael Cardamone | February 27, 2013

The purpose of the Statutory Employer language in the Pennsylvania Work Comp Act is to extend coverage under the Act to subcontractors’ employees injured at work- ie, construction site. In a landmark case called Six L’s Packing Co. v. WCAB (Williamson), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in May 2012, overruled three decades of precedent by expanding “Statutory […]

What Is An Impairment Rating In Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation?

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by Michael Cardamone | February 25, 2013

Section 306(a.2) of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act provides for a determination of whole body impairment due to the compensable work-related injury after an injured worker receives 104 weeks (2 years) of total disability compensation, unless otherwise agreed to by the parties. This, unfortunately, is a tool for insurers to put a ceiling on their […]

How Does Social Security Work With Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation?

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by Michael Cardamone | February 23, 2013

Under Act 57, 50 percent of Social Security retirement- or “old age” benefits shall be credited against the amount of benefits being received under the PA Work Comp Act- except for specific loss benefits or fatal claim benefits. The offset does not apply when the employee applies for and becomes entitled to receive those benefits […]

Workers’ Compensation Is Like A Bad Marriage

posted in |PA Workers’ Compensation

by Michael Cardamone | February 8, 2013

I had a mediation with a Work Comp Judge in Philadelphia this morning. In speaking with my client about some of the benefits of settlement, the Judge made a great analogy. He said that unlike other areas of the law- such as personal injury- workers’ compensation keeps hanging around until the case is settled. In […]

Distinguishing Burdens Of Proof For Psychological Injury Under The Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act

posted in |Brain Injury Lawyers

by Michael Cardamone | February 4, 2013

In New Enterprise Stone & Lime Co. v. WCAB (Kalmanowicz), No. 1492 C.D. 2012, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania recently held that a collision between the Claimant’s truck and a decedent’s automobile was a sufficient physical stimulus causing psychological injury such that the physical-mental analysis should apply rather than a mental-mental analysis in the work […]