Pennsylvania Work Comp News

Published by Howdy Workers on May 22, 2021May 22, 2021

The latest news about workers compensation in Pennsylvania.

• Split Court Says Pharmacy's Requests for Fee Review Weren't Premarture
  January 3, 2023
  A divided Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a pharmacy’s application for fee review were not prematurely filed, even though the carrier contested the causal relatedness of the medication furnished…
• Employer Can't Offset Payments Through Credit Against Benefits for Later Injury
  December 19, 2022
  The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that an employer cannot offset an overpayment of workers' compensation benefits paid for one work-related injury through a credit against an award of benefits…
• Youth Detention Counselor Not Entitled to Comp Litigation Costs
  December 12, 2022
  A Pennsylvania man injured while trying to break up a fight at a state juvenile detention center where he worked is not entitled to reimbursement for workers’ compensation litigation costs,…
• Misclassification Task Force Issues Final Report, Recommendations for Lawmakers
  December 6, 2022
  Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry Secretary Jennifer Berrier announced that the Joint Task Force on Misclassification of Employees submitted its final report to the General Assembly, including 15 unanimous…
• Home Depot Asks High Court to Find Exclusivity Bars Negligence Claim for Dog Bite
  December 1, 2022
  The exclusive remedy of workers’ compensation should preclude a Home Depot worker who was bitten by a customer’s dog from pursuing a negligence claim for allegedly failing to identify the…
• Injured Truck Driver Qualifies as Employee
  November 10, 2022
  The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania upheld a determination that an injured truck driver was an employee who had not been offered valid light-duty work and had not refused reasonable medical…
• Court Orders Calculation of Fees for Expert Witness Whose Testimony Was Disregarded
  November 4, 2022
  A divided Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court directed the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board to calculate a reasonable award to reimburse an injured worker for the costs of deposing an expert witness as…
• Poultry Processor Held in Contempt for Ignoring OSHA Citation
  October 31, 2022
  A federal appellate court held a Pennsylvania poultry processor in contempt for failing to pay $162,359 in penalties for workplace safety violations following an Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection. OSHA…
• OSHA Investigates Workplace Death of Sam's Club Employee
  October 26, 2022
  Federal investigators with the Occupational Health and Safety Administration are probing the death of a 20-year-old man who was fatally injured in an accident at a Sam's Club in Summit…
• Worker Gets Total Disability Status Reinstated as of Petition Date, Not Invalidated IRE Date
  October 6, 2022
  The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a worker whose total disability status reinstated after the state's high court invalidated the impairment rating evaluation process was entitled to benefits as…

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