Pennsylvanians who suffer a “work injury” are entitled to receive benefits under the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act (the “Act”). The Act offers a variety of benefits that include wage-loss benefits, payment for medical treatment, and death benefits to surviving family members. It is very common for insurance carriers to make a settlement offer to an injured worker receiving […]
Filing a claim for workers compensation benefits is not an easy thing to undertake alone without assistance. Injured workers will not receive the assistance necessary to file a claim from their employer or its insurance company. Injured workers require an advocate who will fight to assert their rights. In choosing a workers’ compensation attorney, his […]
Pennsylvania employees are entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for their work injuries. For 110 years, Powell Law attorneys past and present have represented injured workers. The filing of a workers’ compensation claim requires an awareness of many strict deadlines. All parties involved in, and affected by, a workers’ compensation claim must remember the following important […]
Pennsylvania employers are generally required to carry workers’ compensation insurance for any employees working in Pennsylvania. For 110 years Powell Law attorneys, past and present ,have represented injured workers. and encountered, probably too regularly, the situation where a worker is injured and the employer has no workers’ compensation insurance. The Pennsylvania General Assembly created the […]
When Pennsylvanians suffer a “work injury,” they are entitled to receive benefits under Pennsylvania’s Workers’ Compensation Act. These benefits consist of weekly disability income benefits, medical treatment and death benefits to surviving family members of workers killed on the job. The regulations contained in the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act are voluminous and usually quite complicated. Workers should strongly consider retaining […]
Under the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act, workers are entitled to benefits for lost wages equal to two-thirds of their weekly wage for an employment-related injury. Injuries occurring in the course and scope of employment are compensable under the Act, which provides for minimum and maximum adjustments, setting the benefit rate using the annual maximum rate […]
