Pennsylvania Work Comp News
The latest news about workers compensation in Pennsylvania.
- Lawmakers in Pennsylvania on Monday introduced legislation that would free workers' compensation insurers or self-insured employers from being required to provide coverage or reimburse the cost of medical marijuana. S.B. 749,…
- Two co-owners of a Pennsylvania construction company were charged with workers’ compensation fraud as part of allegations they ripped off a program aimed at helping companies weather the COVID-19 pandemic,…
- The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a widow was entitled to an award of benefits for a worker’s suicide following his compensable and disabling back injury. Case: Southeastern Transportation Authority…
- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will weigh in on whether an insurance company lacks the right to subrogation for benefits paid to a worker under a Jones Act policy when he was found…
- The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a state employee’s workers’ compensation benefits were properly subjected to an offset for the pension benefits he was collecting, which had been funded…
- The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a tow company operator was liable for the payment of death benefits to the family of a tow truck driver because he was…
- The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a worker was entitled to the modification of his partial disability status following the invalidation of the state’s impairment rating evaluation process. Case: County…
- The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that an injured firefighter was entitled to reinstatement of his total disability status following the state Supreme Court’s decision to strike the impairment rating…
- The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled that a worker was entitled to temporary total disability benefits for injuries from a shuttle accident while riding to her workplace. Case: West Penn Allegheny…
- The Pennsylvania Insurance Department announced that Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman approved an average 3.02% reduction in loss costs. Commissioner Jessica Altman The department announced that Altman approved the reduction on Thursday,…
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