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New Year's Resolutions Revisited for the Workers' Compensation Practice

January 04, 2019

In focusing on suggested resolutions for the practice of workers' compensation, it quickly becomes apparent that some resolutions are timeless. While some of the suggestions below have been addressed in this space in the past, they still pose the same challenges now as then, and bear repeating.
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Right of Action Against a Tortfeasor Remains in the Injured Worker

December 11, 2018

The issue before the court was whether Section 319 of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act confers on an employer or its workers' compensation insurance carrier a right to seek reimbursement of a subrogation lien directly against a third-party tortfeasor when the claimant in the workers' compensation matter chooses not to pursue a cause of action against the third party in question.
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What to Expect From the New IRE Legislation

November 01, 2018

Last week, Gov. Tom Wolf signed into law Act 111 of 2018 which sought to address the concerns of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Protz v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Derry Area School District), which had invalidated the section of the Workers' Compensation Act pertaining to Impairment Rating Evaluations as unconstitutional.
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Two Recent Commonwealth Court Cases Expand IRE Relief

August 29, 2018

Two cases decided by the Commonwealth Court in the last few months have solidified an injured worker's right to seek a reinstatement of benefits under the Supreme Court's decision in Protz v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board (Derry Area School District), 161 A.3d 827 (Pa. 2017), at least until the Legislature acts.
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Conversion of the Notice of Temporary Compensation Payable

August 02, 2018

The notice of temporary compensation payable (NTCP) and its use has always been the topic of much debate since its inception.
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The Coming and Going Rule Revisited: Three Cases to Consider

June 01, 2018

A basic tenant of workers' compensation law is that commuting to and from work is not considered to be within the course and scope of one's employment. Of course, like most legal principles, the so-called “coming and going rule” does have exceptions.
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Prescription Drug Bill, Workers' Comp System Make Strange Bedfellows

May 03, 2018

With the stroke of a pen, Gov. Tom Wolf ended—for now—the annual effort to “change the way medical treatment is administered under the workers' compensation system” by vetoing Senate Bill 936.
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Commonwealth Court Revisits Workers' Compensation's 'Premises Liability'

March 01, 2018

Normally, work injuries arise when an employee is injured on or off the employer's premises, while actually engaged in furtherance of the employer's business or affairs. Last week, in US Airways v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board Bockelman, No. 612 C.D. 2017, the Commonwealth Court revisited the less common compensability of a workers' compensation claim based on a premises theory of liability.
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Will 'Protz' be Applied Retroactively? Supreme Court Moves to Resolve Issue

February 02, 2018

As is well known, the Supreme Court in Protz v. W.C.A.B. (Derry Area School Dist.), 124 A.3d 406 (Pa. Commw. 2015), petition for allowance of appeal granted, 133 A.3d 733 (Pa. 2016), has found the entire IRE section of the Workers' Compensation Act to be unconstitutional.
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Massage Therapy—Is It a Covered Medical Treatment or Not?

January 04, 2018

There are those injured workers who seek to maintain activities of daily living through “passive modalities” such as massage therapy, ostensibly saving the insurance company the cost of much more expensive treatment. More numerous are those insurance carriers who do not consider massage therapy to be “medical treatment” at all, and seek to avoid paying for such care—ironically at any costs. “Wouldn't we all love to stay home from work and get a massage,” the cynical criticism goes.

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New Year's Resolutions Revisited for the Workers' Compensation Practice

Right of Action Against a Tortfeasor Remains in the Injured Worker

What to Expect From the New IRE Legislation

Two Recent Commonwealth Court Cases Expand IRE Relief

Conversion of the Notice of Temporary Compensation Payable

The Coming and Going Rule Revisited: Three Cases to Consider

Prescription Drug Bill, Workers' Comp System Make Strange Bedfellows

Commonwealth Court Revisits Workers' Compensation's 'Premises Liability'

Will 'Protz' be Applied Retroactively? Supreme Court Moves to Resolve Issue

Massage Therapy—Is It a Covered Medical Treatment or Not?

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