Workers’ Compensation

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Some employers do not budget properly for workers’ compensation claims. When an employee is injured on the job, the boss does his best to discourage filing an accident report and tries to convince the worker that his regular health insurance should pay for injury-related care. The boss intimidates the whole workforce into believing that anyone […]

A common worry among many of the disabled people we represent is that they will be forced to go back to work before they are ready. For some, it’s a legitimate fear. Workers’ compensation in Pennsylvania provides payment for medical care to treat your work-related injury, at least until you’ve reached the peak improvement possible. […]

We’re accustomed to hearing how exposure to repeated movement in the workplace puts a progressive toll of injury on the worker. Typing at a keyboard, dragging merchandise over a bar-code scanner, or lifting heavy boxes requires workers to perform the same range of motions over and over, day after day. What is too often overlooked […]

You try to sleep at night, and you simply can’t. The reason for your sleeplessness sounds so weird and sometimes so frightening that you don’t even want to tell your family and friends about it—much less talk to a doctor. Your hands won’t stop shaking. Or they feel as if they’re shaking, but when you […]

Open flame | Steam | Hot metal | Electricity | Boiling liquids Burn accidents involving these hazards are, unfortunately, fairly common in the American workplace. Most occupations aren’t at risk from more than one or two of these threats, so at least worker training can focus a limited range of safety concerns. The exception is […]

What is the greatest hazard for food service employees? If you guessed “falling down on the job,” you win. Restaurant and tavern workers face surprisingly high rates of slip and trip accidents. The National Floor Safety Institute estimates that more than three million food service employees are hurt each year because of fall accidents at […]

The Pennsylvania workers’ compensation program is designed to provide relief for workers who have been hurt on the job. It’s a no-fault program, so employees are assured that their benefits will be available after a workplace injury—regardless of whether the accident was caused by a coworker, by their boss, or by random and unpredictable events. […]

Cold and flu season is a rite of autumn: kids bring home the sniffles one day, and pass that on to their parents, who carry it with them to the office. Soon, everyone in the workplace will be carrying around a box of tissues. The remarkable and unpleasant fact is that a few workplaces are […]

Every employer bears a fundamental obligation to make a safe work environment for all employees. Sometimes, that promise isn’t kept. For office workers, ventilation problems can mean everyone is put at risk of chronic workplace lung diseases or systemic illness. When that happens, the employer is required by the Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law to pay […]