Workers’ Compensation

Historically, the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act restricted the eligibility for permanent scarring and disfigurement benefits to workers who sustained such injuries specifically on their head, face, or neck above the clavicle. The Act allowed permanently scarred or disfigured employees to claim benefits for a maximum duration of 275 weeks. However, earlier this year, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives ushered in…

When filing an unexcused late Answer to a Claim Petition, a claimant’s Yellow Freight motion will result in all of the well-pled factual allegations of the Claim Petition being deemed admitted by the workers’ compensation Judge. However, a recent case emerged where an employer faced the repercussions of a Yellow Freight motion, but found relief owing to the claimant’s failure…