As summer season brings with it a new class of student workers, employers may be faced with more questions than answers about where summer workers fall along the spectrum of those covered by the Pennsylvania Workers’...more
Holiday party season is upon us! Work holiday parties, often outside of the office and outside of normal business hours, bring the joy of celebrating the holidays with co-workers and employees, but also bring risk – risk of...more
Since the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision in Whitmoyer v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board (Mountain Country Meats), 186 A3d 947 (Pa. 2018), circulated on June 19, 2018 (as you will see, the date matters), an...more
Numerous decisions have been issued in recent years by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court that impact the liability of employers to pay medical bills/expenses. For example, in Armour Pharmacy v. Bureau of Workers’...more
On November 25, 2019, the Commonwealth Court issued a decision addressing the effect that breaks in employment have on jurisdictional issues under Section 305.2(a) of the Act. In doing so, the Commonwealth Court held that,...more