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Employee Work Monitoring

Perhaps at no time in modern history have employers seemingly had less of a grip on their workforce. The amorphous, pre-COVID, practices of “flex time” and work-from-home have been stretched and snapped back to a point of...more

City Council Forces Landlords to Raise Rent on Residential Units

Pittsburgh City Council voted to enact a program that will require registration, fees and inspections for all residential rentals within City limits, starting in May. This same program was proposed and put to vote years ago,...more

Eminent Domain - Attorney Needed for Private Landowner Rights?

With billions in Federal infrastructure improvement funding set to pour into Pennsylvania in coming years, privately owned land across the state will be impacted by thousands of “public purpose” projects. In terms of...more

PA Supreme Court Extends Employer Liability For Injury Sustained After Work Happy Hour

The PA Supreme Court has extended the Workers’ Comp application of the “traveling employee” doctrine to include an employee’s attendance at happy hours, holiday parties and other social gatherings that are sponsored by the...more

Have Independent Contractors on Your Jobsite?

If you operate a construction business in Pennsylvania, and hire independent contractors, who you pay via 1099s, you could face criminal charges, and be forced to pay fines and restitution if these workers are not properly...more

Eviction Moratorium Ends - Rental Assistance Continues

Effective November 1, 2021 the Emergency Order that extended the CDC Eviction Moratorium in Allegheny County expired. The Emergency Order was in place since July, and impacted only residential landlord tenant actions in which...more

U.S. Supreme Court Ends the Eviction Moratorium

On August 26th, the Supreme Court ended the nationwide eviction moratorium that began in September, 2020, and was set to expire on October 3, 2021. In an unsigned majority opinion, the Court ruled that the CDC exceeded its...more

Eviction Moratorium Extension: Landlords Continue to be Locked Out

Just two days before the nationwide eviction moratorium was set to expire on March 31st, the Biden administration re-extended it through June 30th. The extension allows tenants who continue to struggle financially during the...more

Eviction Moratorium - Landlords Remain Locked Out (for now)

As the COVID summer of 2020 drew to a close, the Centers for Disease Control issued a nationwide moratorium on evicting tenants from residential properties, in an effort to promote public health and stem the tide of the...more

A Missed Opportunity for Immunity

The new pandemic aid legislation was eight months in the making, includes 5,600 pages, and $2.3 trillion in aid and spending. With national unemployment at a record high, and moratoriums on evictions, and utility shutoff...more

What Can Employers Do About Employees Who Refuse a Vaccine?

After a seemingless endless wait, news of COVID vaccine distribution has business owners, government offices and school district administrators faced with a legal question they could not have foreseen at the beginning of...more

CDC Issues Nationwide Order Barring Evictions for Most Renters

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an Order that temporarily halts evictions for most renters through the end of 2020. Given its unexpected issuance and broad scope, we have put together...more

Employees Working from Home: PA Workers’ Comp Law

While everyone works through this anything-but-normal time in our country, it is important for employers to note that Pennsylvania Courts have generally included work-from-home injuries as compensable claims. However, there...more

Coronavirus – Workers’ Compensation Concerns for Employers

Over the past two weeks of non-stop news coverage, featuring medical expert reports on the spread of the coronavirus, we have all learned the risks associated with human contact, and contact with things upon which the virus...more

Workers’ Compensation Claims for Healthcare Professionals Exposed to COVID-19 in PA – Update

Just a few short weeks ago, the Center for Disease Control’s Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases warned that the spread of coronavirus in the U.S. was “not a question of if, but when.” As...more

Commonwealth Court: Workers’ Compensation Settlement Not Binding on Medical Care Provider Who Was Not Party to the Agreement

The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court recently ruled that an employer cannot use a Compromise and Release Agreement (C&R) settling a Workers’ Compensation claim to avoid making payments to a medical care provider who rendered...more

New PA Workers’ Comp Law Designed to Save Employers Money

For three decades in Pennsylvania, employers and Workers’ Compensation insurance carriers could seek an independent review of the “impairment rating” of an injured worker, in order to determine the percentage of disability,...more

The End of the IRE Process (as we know it)

Pennsylvania, like many other states, has a statutory section of its Workers’ Compensation law that is devoted to the designation of an impairment rating for an injured worker who is collecting Workers’ Compensation benefits....more

Important Notice For Initial Claim Denial/Acceptance

The initial report of a possible work injury must be handled carefully by the employer and/or its insurance carrier in order to avoid a scenario where an “accepted” claim should have been “denied” and vice versa. For decades,...more

Workplace Drug Testing and New OSHA Regulations

Every employer has a drug testing policy – even if that policy is to not test its employees or prospects. Performing drug testing on current or prospective employees requires specific criteria, and proper handling of the...more

House Bill 1800 – Ripple Effects on Medical Care for Injured Workers

While it seems the members of our state legislature have been busy doing nothing but arguing about the budget for the past year – one young state rep has proposed a bill that may have a positive effect on employers seeking...more

Workers’ Compensation Mediation – What Employers Need to Know

The costs of civil litigation, and uncertainties of a jury trial, have turned mediation into its own cottage industry. Now more than ever, parties involved in civil suits will voluntarily agree to mediate the dispute, with...more

Cutting Costs By Reviewing Ongoing Medical Care For Injured Workers

Long term medical care related to workplace injuries can be a costly and frustrating proposition for employers and/or their Workers’ Compensation insurance carriers. In many cases, the injured workers’ medical care continues...more

Make Surveillance Worth the Money

A largely sedentary/stationary workforce is a luxury in the world of Workers’ Compensation law because the idea of a disabling work injury, or a nagging, high cost medical recovery period, seems to be a remote possibility. ...more

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