Workers’ Compensation

If you suffered an injury on the job, do you need to foot the bill for your medical care or does your employer? Well, that depends. Workers' compensation coverage is a type of insurance that your employer purchases to cover job-related injuries among employees. It's...

If you have recently suffered an injury at work or gotten diagnosed with a work-related illness, you might need to file a claim for workers' compensation benefits. Whether you had to call your health care insurance company to figure out why they wouldn't cover the...

Maybe you work as a welder at construction sites and have recently noticed a strange but not painful tingling in your arms before lunch and then again toward the end of the day. Perhaps you work in a factory, and you started to experience tingling when you grip,...

People working in manufacturing are at higher-than-average risk for a workplace injury. Statistics from 2019 indicate that 15% of all reported non-fatal workplace injuries and work-acquired illnesses involved someone working in manufacturing.  Of those workers, about...

The relationship between you and your doctor is important, particularly when you’re injured and that injury affects your ability to work. Unfortunately, the workers’ compensation system in Pennsylvania gives employers the right to pick their injured workers’ treating...

If you get hurt on the job, you may want to seek out workers’ compensation. One thing that many people don’t realize about workers’ compensation is that you may be able to seek a lump-sum payout instead of accepting weekly benefits. Lump-sum benefits work well for...

In an ideal situation, your boss would be just as worried about keeping you safe as you are. They would never do anything to put you at risk, and you would always feel like the two of you were working together to avoid injuries. Nothing, not even production numbers,...

When talking about worker safety, the focus is usually on the job site. For instance, with falls being a major cause of injury, people will focus on the use of ropes and harnesses on scaffolding, on the importance of choosing the right ladder and on the risks that...

A certain amount of physical discomfort is natural when you work a physically demanding job. Whether you provide custodial and maintenance services for a local business or you work on the line at an industrial facility, your feet, arms and back may be sore by the end...