Workers’ Compensation

When someone is injured while at work, the worker can file a workers' compensation claim to request benefits to cover economic losses incurred while he or she recovers. Under certain situations a worker can also file a personal injury lawsuit...

Traffic stops a routine part of most police officers' jobs in Pennsylvania. As is all too often reported on the news, officers are sometimes hit by a speeding car on a freeway after pulling a car over. Sometimes the speeding...

Each day a person goes to work it is assumed that he or she will return home at the end of a hard day's work safe and sound. Unfortunately, workers throughout Pennsylvania are regularly injured on-the-job. The extent of the...

The purpose of the workers' compensation system is to provide compensation to employees who suffer an economic loss after being injured at work. Each state codifies its own workers' compensation laws. In Pennsylvania, all businesses must have worker's compensation insurance.A...

A Pennsylvania state trooper was injured on the job last week when the police cruiser he was driving was hit by the car he was pursing. The accident happened shortly before 5 p.m. on New Falls Road in Bristol Township.When...

Two construction workers were injured last week in North Philadelphia when the row house on which they were working crumbled. Because the crumbling of the house on Boston Street near 9th caused the two men, ages 51 and 41, to...