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When you're injured on the job, the workers' compensation insurance company is responsible to pay your medical expenses for any reasonable and necessary medical treatment you need related to your work injury, as well as your lost wages. There are sometimes questions as to what defines reasonable and necessary medical treatment. Essentially, if your doctor...

Being tired at work is more than a mere inconvenience. It also increases the risk of causing workplace accidents. Fatigue-related workplace accidents do not only injure tired workers: unsuspecting coworkers are also put in danger - as are members of the public who happen to be in the area.  The exclusive remedy provisions of workers'...

The first step in receiving workers' compensation, and really the only proactive step that an injured worker should have to take is telling your employer you were injured. Once you have told your employer that you were injured, they have a responsibility to notify the state through the filing of an employer's report of injury...

Pennsylvania law requires all employers to carry workers' compensation insurance to protect their employees, who have the misfortune of suffering an on the job injury. Based on that law that requires all employers to carry insurance, any time you suffer an injury on the job, in the course and scope of your employment, you should...

If you are injured on the job and unable to work or limited in your ability to work, your ability to provide for your family should not suffer. Workers' compensation insurance is designed to pay you at a comparable rate to what you had been earning before your injury. The way workers' compensation is calculated...

https://youtu.be/FRE19-OlA_Y Workers compensation pays based upon the average amount of money that an injured worker earned, prior to their injury. There are several different methods to calculate this. Generally speaking, it depends on the amount of money you earned on average, in the year prior to your injury. Now, some workers haven't been on the...

After a work injury, your employer may begin to treat you as a villain as opposed to a victim, a disposable commodity. The truth is, the workers' compensation laws are designed to protect you, and provide both wage loss and medical benefits while you are disabled and unable to work. Your employer and its insurance...

According to 90.5 WESA, a toxic chemical accident occurred at the Bruce Mansfield Power Station outside of Pittsburgh. Six workers were performing maintenance in a confined underground well. They removed an elbow joint and accidentally released toxic hydrogen sulfide gas into the un-ventilated area. Two workers were incapacitated and unable to get out of the...

Workers Compensation is a system that provides essentially two benefits. Lost Wage Benefits, which substitutes for the wages that you would earn if you were otherwise working but are unable to due to your injury, as well as medical benefits. I'm often asked by prospective clients whether they're entitled to receive benefits on account of...

Workers compensation is paid by your employer, either through funding themselves through what's called a bond or purchasing workers compensation insurance through an insurance company. There never should be a fee or cost to an injured worker who sustains an injury on the job. Oftentimes, I have clients who come to me and they bring...