The issue of apportionment of liability arises when the Claimant sustains multiple injuries with different Employers or different carriers. This situation arises where a Claimant sustains an initial workplace injury that leads to a medical condition causing disability or impairment of earning power, and then a second workplace injury results in a...
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March 27, 2006
Apportioning Liability In Workers' Compensation
March 27, 2006
Penalty Petition Pitfalls In Pennsylvania
The extensive amendments to the PA Workers’ Compensation Act contained in Act 57 of 1996 created the need for new and/or updated forms or “Bureau documents.” Since passage of the Act, the...
February 27, 2006
“Yellow Freight” And An Untimely Answer
Yellow Freight refers to a line of cases related to the Commonwealth Court’s 1981 Decision in Yellow Freight Sys., Inc. v. WCAB (Madara), 423 A.2d 1125 (Pa. Commw. 1981) that defined the...
February 27, 2006
Workers' Compensation Deadlines
In Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law, there are important deadlines for the defense to be aware of, which apply to both claimants and employers. I’ll start with deadlines that apply to our...