PA Workers’ Compensation System and Coronavirus

By now, we are all too familiar with the Coronavirus (COVID-19).  At this point, governments, individuals and businesses are still evaluating how best to protect each other and ourselves against this pandemic.

The Bureau of Workers’ Compensation is largely still open and operating on a normal basis.  Hearings are generally still taking place, though the situation is being monitored.  One hearing office, however, has been closed for at least a two week period.  The Dresher Workers’ Compensation Hearing Office will be closed from March 13 through March 27, 2020.  We are told that all hearings and mediations scheduled there are cancelled and will be rescheduled.  The Dresher office serves injured workers who live in Eastern Montgomery County (or cases otherwise based in that region); cases based in Western Montgomery County, in the Malvern Workers’ Compensation Hearing Office, will take place as scheduled.

Brilliant & Neiman LLC will remain open, and our attorneys are available to injured workers.  However, we will be trying to abide by CDC recommendations, and avoiding personal contact, including hand shaking.  We also ask visitors to our offices to use hand sanitizer at our door.

We will try to best serve our clients as we all struggle to get through this difficult and trying time.