Pennsylvania Workers Comp

You should report a work-related simple injury immediately to your supervisor.  Notice is extremely important in Pennsylvania workers compensation. Often times, when an employee suffers what appears to be a relatively simple injury, that does not appear to be significant, they just ‘gut’ though it and handle it on their own.  They never report the injury to their employer.   Later, the injury fails to resolve and in fact worsens.   However, the lack of notice to the employer of the occurrence…

Pennsylvania workers comp cases will begin having some in-person hearings to move work injury cases forward.  As of right now, it appears that the in-person hearings will be limited to certain locations and to testimony type hearings only. Effective June 19, 2020, the Workers' Compensation Office of Adjudication will begin to conduct limited in-person hearings in counties that have been designated by the Governor as entering the "green" phase of reopening following the COVID-19 pandemic. Limited in-person hearings will be…