Workers' Compensation
Our Workers' Compensation Practice Group has extensive experience representing various entities in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, including:
- Employers
- Self-insureds
- Group self-insureds
- Insurance carriers
- Third party administrators
Our lawyers explore and analyze all potential avenues in defending our clients in litigation including:
- Course of employment
- Jurisdiction
- Independent contractor Tatus v. Employee
- Statute of limitations
- Notice
- Affirmative defenses
- Violation of positive orders
- Personal animus
- State and federal black lung cases
- Longshore and Harborworkers' Compensation Act
- Occupational disease
- Hearing loss
- Subrogation liens against third party tort feasors
We have represented clients in all administrative and appellate forums including:
- Hearings before workers' compensation judges
- Workers' compensation appeal board / boards of review
- Commonwealth court
- Supreme courts
Our lawyers also know the inter-relationship between workers' compensation and other labor and discrimination laws and have the ability to analyze and resolve issues involving these multiple areas of law.