Capital Health is planning to build a “micro-hospital” in Langhorne, next to Oxford Valley Mall. In 2019, Capital Health purchased the property, which had been a bariatric surgery center. The plan was stymied by the pandemic, though it is now said to be moving forward, according to an article in…
There is a common misconception that the workers’ compensation insurance carrier controls medical treatment whenever a worker is injured in Pennsylvania. This is addressed in broad strokes on our website. The truth is, a workers’ compensation insurer in PA may control medical treatment for the first 90 days of an…
While many folks know what happens when an Employer violates Pennsylvania law and fails to carry PA workers’ compensation insurance (this is governed by the Uninsured Employers’ Guaranty Fund [UEGF]), few know what happens when a PA workers’ compensation insurance carrier goes bankrupt or ceases to exist. This is where…
Just recently, we discussed a case which addressed mental/mental work injuries in Pennsylvania. This type of injury occurs when a mental stimulus creates a psychic injury. As we reviewed in that posting, these mental/mental injuries have a higher burden in the PA workers’ compensation system – to be compensable, such…
As we have discussed previously on this blog, physical injuries in Pennsylvania are treated differently than mental ones. Provided that a physical injury was suffered in the scope and course of the job, benefits should be payable. Mental injuries, though, have a different and additional requirement – the injury must…
The Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (Act) is very specific – a workers’ comp insurance carrier is responsible for the payment of all reasonable and necessary medical expenses, which are related to a work injury. As always, the devil is in the details. For example, is the payment of medical bills…
Back in 2008, we discussed the decision of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in the matter of Weney v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Mac Sprinkler Systems, Inc.) [Note that the formatting, with the WCAB listed as the party and the Employer in parentheses, has been reversed since this decision]. This…
We are excited to relay the news that the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, Office of Adjudication, has announced that there will be three new additions to the workers’ comp bench. Two will be serving the Philadelphia Workers’ Compensation Hearing Office and one will be in the Williamsport Workers’ Compensation…
When a party files a document in the world of Pennsylvania workers’ compensation, it means something. As with most areas of the law, parties are bound by what is filed. So, a recent decision by the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, addressing an attempt by a workers’ comp insurance carrier to…
As we have addressed in a previous blog post, discussing the case of City of Philadelphia v. Turner (Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board), a Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) cannot allow the conditions considered by an Impairment Rating Evaluation (IRE) to be only those conditions formally accepted by the workers’ compensation insurance…