Case Results

An employee from Millersville, PA, working as a nurse practice educator / Assistant Director of Nursing for Genesis Healthcare Group, sustained a work injury described as “lower back, left wrist, left hip and neck sprain / strain” in December 2014, which the insurance carrier, Broadspire Services, Inc., accepted via a Notice of Temporary Compensation Payable. The injured worker had to undergo extensive rotator cuff surgery in April 2015.

A union employee from Thompsontown, PA, working as a sergeant corrections officer at a prison, sustained a work-related injury in December 2013, which the insurance carrier, Inservco Insurance Services, accepted as a left knee anterior cruciate ligament tear. In March 2015, the insurance carrier issued a Notice of Suspension indicating that the injured worker returned to work at earnings equal or greater to his time-of-injury earnings and we filed an Employee Challenge Petition.

An employee from the Lancaster, PA area, while working as a sales consultant for a car dealership, sustained a work-related injury in February 2014, which the insurance carrier, Eastern Alliance, accepted as a right hip strain. We filed a Review Petition seeking amendment of the description of injury to include a fractured sacrum and labial tear of the right hip and post-traumatic osteoarthritis requiring a right hip replacement. The future benefits were ultimately settled for a lump sum of $140,000.00 via a compromise and release.

An employee from Elizabethtown, PA, working as delivery driver for Continental Floral, sustained a work injury described as a left shoulder sprain in October 2012 which the insurance carrier, Argonaut Insurance Co., accepted. We filed a Review Petition requesting recalculation of the injured worker’s average weekly wage and compensation rate because the insurance carrier failed to properly include all of his pay including full salary, bonuses and per diem pay.

A fork lift operator, for Johnson Controls, from Orbisonia, PA, suffered a work injury in May 2013, which the insurance carrier, Underwriters Safety & Claims, accepted as a cervical strain. We filed a Penalty Petition because the insurance carrier had failed to timely pay the injured worker his wage loss benefits. The insurance carrier had the injured worker attend an independent medical examination and the IME physician reported that he had sustained a traumatic disc herniation at C3-4. The employee continued to receive wage loss benefit until the case ultimately settled for $132,500 via a compromise and release.

A truck driver employee from Industry, PA,  sustained a work-related right wrist fracture in June 2013, which the insurance carrier accepted. The case ultimately settled for $132,000 via a compromise and release after about a year of receiving TTD benefits through workers’ compensation.

A Union employee from Sunbury, PA, working as a delivery driver, sustained a work injury  to his left knee and right heel sprain. The injured worker actually sustained injuries in the form of a right torn Achilles tendon and a left knee meniscus tear. He had been treating with Doctor Jones and Dr. Werner who performed surgeries to repair his Achilles tendon and left knee in 2016. 

An employee, working as a regional trainer at a medical facility, sustained a work-related injury in September 2012, which the insurance carrier, Hartford Casualty Insurance Company, accepted as a left knee strain/sprain. We filed a Utilization Review regarding prospective medication management from a pain management physician to obtain pre-approval of the treatment. The case ultimately settled for $130,000 via a compromise and release.

An employee from Waynesboro, working as a truck driver, sustained a work injury, which the insurance carrier, Inservco Insurance Services, denied. Matt Kaminsky of Calhoon and Kaminsky P.C., filed a Claim Petition for the injured worker in which we described his injury as a C5-C6 disc herniation with radiculopathy and requested payment of workers’ compensation wage loss benefits from the date of injury and ongoing.

An office worker from  Harrisburg, working at Pinnacle Health Hospital, sustained a work-related injury in February 2010, which the insurance carrier, Inservco Insurance Services, accepted as a “lumbar/sacral strain with spasm.” The insurance carrier filed a Termination Petition alleging the injured worker could return to work without restrictions and was fully recovered from the work injury.