Workers’ Compensation

Even if you are laid off from a job you still may have a right to workers’ compensation benefits.  In fact, many employees who have been laid off may have actually been working in light or modified duty positions and still receiving treatment as a result of the work related injury when they were terminated.  […]

Under the workers’ compensation law in Pennsylvania, an employee who is injured on the job is guaranteed to receive coverage for his medical bills and even the majority of his wages, if he cannot work for an extended period of time. He automatically qualifies for these benefits without filing a lawsuit and without determining who […]

Whether in a hospital, laboratory, clinic, or even visiting patients at home, medical workers face daily exposure to frightful diseases with confidence and aplomb. But when safety procedures fail to prevent possible contamination, the results can be terrifying. And that’s the precise nature of the problem known as needlestick injuries—cuts and puncture wounds through the […]

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Professor Tompkins smiled as he looked across the lecture hall filled with community college students. “Today,” he announced, “we will have an exercise in thinking like a scientist.” He lifted a huge block of ice onto the laboratory table nearby. “As you can see,” he said, “I have frozen a very expensive microscope in this […]

In recent years, the insurance companies that handle workers’ compensation claims in Pennsylvania have started to aggressively push lump-sum settlements for some cases. Conventionally, someone who is receiving workers’ compensation benefits for a Pennsylvania workplace injury will submit medical bills to the insurer for payment, and will get periodic—monthly or biweekly—checks to replace a portion […]

It’s natural, after you have been injured on the job, to wonder how much money you should receive in workers’ compensation benefits for your injuries. After all, you are probably debating with yourself whether hiring a lawyer will be necessary to get a fair and full settlement, and all the attorney advertisements have been pretty […]

Is there more which can be done to protect workers?  Do companies which violate out safety laws endanger the lives of its workers?  Should workers compensation immunity laws be changed? Domestic Casting has once again been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for safety and health violations.  It […]

Why has there been a rash a frequent worksite accidents?  Can these accidents have been prevented? Just yesterday, July 11, 2013, workers on the fifth and sixth floors of the under-construction Temple University science building in North Philadelphia were temporarily stuck after a partial collapse on a lower floor of the site, the city fire […]

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) was created by Congress in 1970 and given the mission to promote safer workplaces in the United States. It sets job safety standards for each industry in the nation, conducts workplace inspections, investigates accidents after they occur, and issues regular progress reports to Congress and the US public. […]