Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Proposed Amendments to Workers' Compensation Judges' Rules Published in Pennsylvania Bulletin

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The proposed amendments to the Special Rules of Practice and Procedure Before Workers' Compensation Judges were published Saturday in t...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Commonwealth Court holds home health nurse is traveling employee from her home to patient's home

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In L. Jamison v. WCAB (Gallagher Home Health Services) the Claimant worked as a home health nurse. She also worked for another home health...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Commonwealth Court holds IRE doctor must testify the Claimant has reached maximum medical improvement

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In C. Combine v. WCAB (Nat'l Fuel Gas Distribution Corp) the Claimant underwent an IRE, which found a twenty per cent (20%) total body ...
Saturday, August 09, 2008

New York Times previews study of how parties fared when they rejected settlement and went to trial

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A study of outcomes for parties who rejected settlement and went to trial will be published in the September Journal of Empirical Legal Stud...
Friday, August 08, 2008

Commonwealth Court reaffirms standard for notice in occupational hearing loss claims

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In Crompton Corporation v. WCAB (King) the Claimant filed a claim for occupationally induced hearing loss on April 2, 2004, and thus provid...
Monday, August 04, 2008

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services determines thermal intradiscal procedures are not reasonable and necessary

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An Ortho Supersite article excerpted from the journal Spine states CMS proposes to issue a national non-coverage determination for thermal...

Commonwealth Court reverses Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board holding that Claimant’s disability began on first day off work

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In Albert Einstein Healthcare v. WCAB (Stanford) the WCJ awarded benefits based on the testimony of the Claimant’s doctor that the Claimant...
Saturday, July 26, 2008

Statute of Limitations Waiver and Workers’ Compensation

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A Law.com article reports many companies are using and enforcing a waiver limiting statutes of limitations for employment claims to six mon...

Article on Introductory Joint Session in Mediation

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Mediator Robert A. Steinberg recently published an article on opening statements in mediation with several tips for parties to interact wit...
Friday, July 18, 2008

Commonwealth Court Remands in Serial Termination Case

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In M. Prebish v. WCAB (DPW/Western Center) the Commonwealth Court accepted the Claimant's argument that the Employer must show a change...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Mediation Practice Well Represented in Blogs

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Mediators have the ambition and the aptitude to produce very useful blogs on the subject. One place to sample this information is at The Wor...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Commonwealth Court Grants Reargument in Diehl

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The Commonwealth Court granted the Respondent's petition for reargument and vacated the prior decision in T. Diehl v. WCAB (IA Construc...