Philadelphia, PA
Workers compensation Lawyer at Philadelphia, PA
Practice Areas: Workers Compensation, Employment & Labor, Appeals
OUTCOME: Holding for the claimant.
An employer is limited to reimbursement by the Supersedeas Fund, and not by a claimant, for overpayment of fees and expenses related to subrogation in a third-party settlement.
OUTCOME: Holding for the claimant.
Once a firefighter's occupational disease has been adjudicated compensable, the cause of the occupational disease may not be re-litigated.
OUTCOME: Holding against the claimant.
A union member may be forced to forfeit workers' compensation benefits and simultaneously accept pension deferral while partially disabled if a limited duty job is offered.
OUTCOME: Holding for the claimant.
A firefighter's disease of the heart and lungs need originate neither in the heart nor in the lungs, but may originate elsewhere and involve the heart or lungs, in order to be compensable as an occupat ... ional disease of the heart and lungs.
OUTCOME: Holding for the claimant.
Affirming the imposition by the Appeal Board of a penalty, which had been denied by the workers' compensation judge, for the violation of a Bureau of Workers' Compensation regulation, not merely for a ... violation of the statute.
OUTCOME: Holding for the claimant.
An invalidation by the Commonwealth Court of the workers' compensation judge's findings of fact, which had been upheld by the Appeal Board, but which findings of fact reflected a deliberate disregard o ... f competent evidence that logically could not have been avoided in reaching the decision.
OUTCOME: Holding for the claimant.
The workers' compensation tribunals are bound neither by common law nor by technical rules of evidence and may properly exclude evidence in their discretion, as the judge is the ultimate authority in m ... atters of weight and credibility of evidence.
OUTCOME: Holding for the claimant.
Another invalidation by the Commonwealth Court of the workers' compensation judge's findings of fact, which had been upheld by the Appeal Board, but which findings of fact were based on expert medical ... opinion which was contradictory and thus equivocal.
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