If you are partially or totally disabled due to a work-related injury, your Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation rate – the amount that you will be paid – is of critical importance. Despite this, most people have little understanding of what their compensation rate should be, and often simply accept that what the Workers’ Compensation insurance carrier […]
How to Handle a Back Injury at Work
Workplace Back Injuries Work-related back injuries are one of the most common types of workplace injuries, accounting for approximately 1/3 of all work-related injuries each year. Back pain can be caused by a single event, such as slipping and falling, or lifting something that is too heavy. However, back pain can also be caused by […]
Back Injury Medical Evidence is Important
Get Medical Help for Your Back Injury One of the most common injuries seen in our practice is the back injury. People hurt their backs in auto accidents, slips and falls, trips and falls, industrial accidents and truck accidents, just to name a few. Sometimes the injury is catastrophic, immediate and easy to link to […]
Widow Awarded Lifetime Benefits for Occupational Lung Disease, Silicosis
Occupational Lung Diseases Case Summary Widow awarded lifetime benefits for death of her husband partially caused by an occupational lung disease: Attorney Ben Costello was able to obtain lifetime workers’ compensation payments for a widow whose husband died from a combination of work-related and non work-related diseases. The widow’s husband was a 63-year-old former machine […]
Traumatic Brain Injury: An “Invisible Injury”
Lately, we have received several calls from Pennsylvania workers who have hit their head at work. In many of these cases, the individuals said they had slight headaches afterward, but felt their pride was more wounded than anything else. These workers wondered whether it was really necessary to report the injury to their employer, particularly […]
How to Report a Workplace Injury
Most people understand that one of the most basic requirements with a work injury is to report it to their employer. However, even when an injury is reported, problems can still develop with what was or was not said at the time the injury was reported, or even with what was or was not said […]
$175,000 Plus Continued Medical Care Settlement for Torn Rotator Cuff at Work
Medical Care of Torn Rotator Cuff at Work – Case Summary A settlement of $175,000, plus continued medical care for life-related to the torn rotator cuff at work, was negotiated by attorney Eric Betzner on behalf of one of his clients. The injured worker was a custodian at a school, where he had worked for […]
Back Injury Advice
Understanding your Back Injury One of the most common injuries seen in our practice is the back injury. People hurt their backs in auto accidents, slips and falls, trips and falls, industrial accidents and truck accidents, just to name a few. Sometimes the injury is catastrophic, immediate and easy to link to the accident that […]
$502,000 Workers Compensation Settlement for Foot Injury
Natural Gas Industry Workers Compensation Case Summary – Foot Injury Attorney Eric Betzner obtained a settlement valued at $502,000 for an injured worker who sustained a crush injury to his foot, while working in the natural gas industry. The worker, who lived in West Virginia, was employed as a truck driver, driving flatbed trucks, water […]
$235,000 Plus Continued Medical Care Settlement for Work Related Injury
Medical Care for Work Related Injury Case Summary – Slip and Fall, Lower Back Attorney Scott Leckie negotiated a settlement for one of his clients from Morristown Pennsylvania in the amount of $235,000 plus continued lifetime coverage of medical treatment for a work related injury. The injured worker worked in the coal mining industry as […]