An issue that is often at the heart of worker’s compensation litigation involves the calculation of the worker’s Average Weekly Wage. Many topics involving the correct calculation of the Claimant’s Average Weekly Wage are covered on this site. (For a recap on Calculating Partial Disability click here; for an explanation of…
Yes. For example, if you worked as A Residential Services Aide at a Pennsylvania State Center for adult severely mentally handicapped individuals. Four years ago, you were assisting an individual in the bathroom when he started to fall, landing on you and rupturing a disc in your back. You are…
Over the years, we’ve been told by our clients that they didn’t know what to look for when searching for a workers compensation lawyer. So Pennsylvania Workers Comp Attorney A.J. Palutis details what to look for when you need the help of an attorney for a work related injury. If…
If you have been injured on the job in Pennsylvania, listen in as attorney A.J. Palutis explains how to report the incident correctly. If you live in Pennsylvania and need help with your workers’ compensation case, don’t hesitate to call us at 1-877-291-4722 and find out what benefits you are…
In this video, Attorney Tom Wilken explains what to do if you are contacted by the workers’ comp insurance company to inform you that you now have an assigned nurse case-manager for your workers’ compensation case. If you have been assigned a Nurse Case Manager and it seems that the…
Receiving reasonable and necessary medical treatment for a work injury in Pennsylvania (PA) can often be difficult and frustrating when dealing with a workers’ compensation insurance carrier. We have covered in other posts the ways insurance companies can delay the process and make an injured worker jump through hoops to…
In Pennsylvania (PA), Unemployment compensation reduces the amount of workers’ compensation benefits you receive by giving the workers’ compensation carrier an offset and credit due to the receipt of unemployment. But how is the offset calculated? Is the gross amount or the net amount (after taxes) used to calculate the…
In May 2013, Ron Calhoon was certified as specialist in the practice of workers’ compensation law by the Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Law Section. He successfully completed the certification process by submitting a variety of documents showing that at least 50% of his legal practice is in the specialty…
Under the Pennsylvania (PA) Workers’ Compensation Act, A UR, or Utilization Review, is a process by which an insurance company can have a workers’ compensation related treatment reviewed to determine if the treatment is both “reasonable” and “necessary”. When a treatment is reviewed, the Bureau assigns the review to a…
A frequent injury we see in Pennsylvania (PA) workers’ compensation cases is a tear of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) in the knee of the injured worker. In the past, this type of injury automatically required extensive reconstructive surgery to repair the tear. Recently, the website for Andrews Institute for…
