In today's economy, more and more workers are contractors rather than full-time employees with benefits. What effect does this have on workers' compensation law in Pennsylvania? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court addressed this question in a recent case, Six L's Packing...
Month: August 2012
Calculating Average Weekly Wages in Pennsylvania Work Comp Cases
For an injured worker, the proper calculation of workers' compensation benefits is obviously very important. If you've been hurt on the job, you need enough money to cover your medical expenses and move forward with your life - despite the loss of income from your...
Workplace Safety Violations: OSHA Cites Pennsylvania Company
"No one should know how laws or sausages are made," the German statesman Otto von Bismarck once said. The wily chancellor was making a point about the ugliness that often underlies the political process. He was not referring to the importance of protecting and...
Pennsylvania Case Addresses Issue of Disfigurement
Workers' compensation is a very specific area of the law. This is true not only in Pennsylvania, but in each state's work comp system. It should scarcely be surprising, then, that workers' compensation law contains a concept known as "specific loss." The term refers...