Injury Treatment with the Company or “Panel” Doctors Many injured workers are directed by their employer to a specific medical provider following a work injury. We are often asked whether this is required by law, and if there are ways to get around it. The short answer is that the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act does […]
PA Supreme Court Decision on “Household Vehicle” Exclusion On January 23, 2019, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down the “household vehicle” exclusion that had been present in many auto insurance policies. This exclusion was commonly used by insurance companies to deny uninsured motorist (UM) benefits and underinsured motorist benefits (UIM) to insureds who had paid […]
Understanding Mediation in Personal Injury Cases: A Path to Settlement More often these days, personal injury cases in litigation eventually end up in mediation. What is “mediation”? Mediation is a process whereby a neutral person, agreed upon by the attorneys for the respective parties, acts as a go-between to attempt to bring opposing parties closer […]
You’ve just had an auto accident and go to the emergency room the next day. You provide your regular health insurance information, pay your co-pay and get treatment. You don’t improve, so you go to your family doctor and your regular insurance gets billed and pays. You incur another co-payment. Your family doctor sends you […]
Classification of Injuries Covered Under Workers’ Compensation Act There seems to be a real interest in learning more about the classification of injuries covered under the Workers’ Compensation Act. The following represents several categories of injuries typically found compensable under our current law. Traumatic A traumatic injury is generally considered as one that results […]
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