Workers’ Compensation
Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Laws
If you are an employee in the State of Pennsylvania, you are protected by a system known as the workers’ compensation program. This program requires most employers to carry insurance to pay for lost wages, medical care and death benefits...
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Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Statute of Limitations
If you suffer an injury or illness at work in Pennsylvania, you can file a workers’ compensation claim to pursue financial benefits if you are a qualifying worker. This type of claim does not require you to prove that someone...
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Statute of Limitations for a Workers’ Compensation Claim
If you get injured at work, you may be eligible for financial relief through Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation system. This is a no-fault system, meaning you do not have to prove that your employer or a coworker caused your accident. You...
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How Long Does a Workers’ Compensation Claim Take?
If you get injured while at work in Pennsylvania or Ohio, you have the right to file a workers’ compensation claim for financial benefits. Every company in these states is required to carry workers’ comp insurance. How long it takes...
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How Are Workers’ Compensation Benefits Calculated in Pennsylvania?
According to Pennsylvania’s workers’ compensation law, you are entitled to certain financial benefits after suffering an injury on the job. This includes financial compensation for the majority of your average salary and any necessary medical costs. Unfortunately, insurance companies do...
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Can You Terminate an Employee While on Workers’ Comp?
Workers’ compensation is a system put in place to protect employees from having to pay out-of-pocket for accidents and injuries that occur on the job. If an injury takes an employee out of work temporarily, job security after recovery can...
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Bucket truck overturns killing local man
A Penn Power worker was killed on Sunday afternoon when the bucket truck he was in overturned and he fell onto the roadway. The accident happened in the 300 block of Dutch Ridge Road in Wayne Township. Authorities reported that...
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Volunteer firefighter workers’ compensation claim difficult case
Putting one's life at risk for others is often labeled as heroic. Salaried and volunteer firefighters risk their lives for others on a routine basis. If they are injured or become sick as a result of their service, they are...
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Workplace injuries, at home
Everyone knows that if you are injured at work, then you can file a workers' compensation claim. But what if you are injured while working from home? Are you entitled to the same protections? Can you even recover workers' compensation?...
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Workers’ compensation leaves low-wage workers behind
Workers' compensation was conceived as an umbrella solution to solve the rash of injuries that left workers unable to work and financially vulnerable. Workers' compensation also protected businesses from being over-litigated by injured workers whose only recourse was the courts....
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Can you work part-time and collect workers’ compensation?
It is a common myth that you can either receive workers' compensation or your wage but not both. That is not true. Workers? compensation can and does replace wages, but it isn't only limited to that role. This post will...
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A review of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act
The Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act was passed in 1914. It enshrines all of the rights that employees have and the obligations that employers bear. The latest version was updated last year and implemented in February of 2016. This post will...
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