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May 4, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
Without question, the practice of workers' compensation has made it, intact, to the other end of the pandemic in one piece. Certainly, COVID-19 forced a significant paradigm shift in the way cases are handled. The question now becomes, what worked and what is worth preserving?
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April 6, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
As is well known, commuting to and from work is not considered to be within the course and scope of one's employment.
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March 1, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
Historically, the law has generally supported a equitable prohibition against such a practice. Of course, history has never met Section 319 of the act!
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January 28, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer
While it is generally conceded that "double recovery" for the same damages is not good public policy, the fact that employers are allowed to subrogate against damages such as pain and suffering they did not have to pay in the first place has always been a source of contention.
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November 18, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer
On Nov. 16, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in the matter of Peters v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (Cintas), addressed for the first time the traveling employee doctrine, thus establishing the criteria under the act for workers in the mobile workforce who are injured on the job.
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Authors: Rosemary Alito
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November 2, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer
Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued a nonprecedential decision in Lombardi v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (UPMC Health Plan), 208 C.D. 2021 (5/7/2021), which delves into the basics of the law surrounding the course and scope of employment issue.
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September 30, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer
The court essentially held the employer accountable for paying nothing at all when it had all the means necessary to make at least a good faith payment.
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August 26, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer
Last week, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued another unfortunate decision in a relatively recent line of cases that is eviscerating the "bureau document" scheme of the Bureau of Workers' Compensation that litigants have relied upon for decades to guide and protect the rights of both parties.
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July 30, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer
The court's latest foray into what constitutes an employee for purposes of the Workers' Compensation Act is worth reading in its entirety as, like all such cases, it is very fact specific.
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June 1, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer
Until the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's 2018 decision in Whitmoyer v. Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (Mountain Country Meats), an employer's right to subrogation under Section 319 of the Workers' Compensation Act has repeatedly been found by the courts to be absolute, with few exceptions.
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