Having a job, or even better, a career can help secure or stabilize your financial future. What else comes with a job? Especially in labor-intensive industries, is the risk of injury. Whereas a white-collar worker may slip on a wet floor and injure their back or...
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Workers’ Compensation
How to file a workers’ compensation claim
Injuries can be life-changing and when they happen at work, the process of dealing with them can be especially complicated. Whether you suffer a back injury from lifting boxes or discover a respiratory disease from toxic exposure, you may be able to get compensation...
When injured on the job, can I choose to see my own doctor?
Every year, thousands of workers here in Pennsylvania suffer harm while on the job, ranging from acute physical injuries to long-term damage caused by wear or exposure. It is these people that workers’ compensation helps protect. After an on-the-job injury, however,...
Can I get fired for filing a workers’ compensation claim?
After a work injury, there are many reasons why people don’t file workers’ compensation claims. Sometimes people are just cynical and don’t believe the system will help them. Others feel like workers’ compensation might be seen as somehow cheating the system and will...
Are delivery drivers eligible for workers’ compensation benefits?
Delivery drivers often rush to meet quotas. By hitting their goal and pleasing customers, they may put their own safety at risk. Injuries caused by an auto accident or a lifting mistake can keep drivers off the job. If you’re a delivery driver, you may wonder if...
Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation and COVID-19
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Pennsylvania workers’ compensation continues to function and cases are proceeding by way of telephonic settlements, hearings and mediations. At the present time, telephonic hearings are anticipated to last through the end of April. ...
Can you get workers’ comp if you’re hurt while working at home?
More people are working from home than ever before. We all know the old adage that most accidents occur in the home. When you spend your day working at home, that's even more likely to be where you suffer an injury.However, if you are injured while you're working at...
Where does COVID-19 fit into Pennsylvania’s Workers’ Compensation Act?
The Workers' Compensation Insurance Organizations (WCIO), an association of industry groups, has acknowledged this emerging and serious health crisis our country now faces, and the impact it will have upon workers' and employers. WCIO has authorized new methods for...
What professions are most likely to give you hearing loss?
Hearing loss can sneak up on a person over time -- especially if it's caused by exposure to loud noise on a daily basis. Approximately 22 million people are exposed to noise at work every day that's significant enough to cause hearing loss. In fact, according to the...
Which employees are most at risk for occupational skin diseases?
A study that was published in 2017 in the National Safety Council's (NSC) Safety Health magazine captured how at least 13 million workers here in Pennsylvania and elsewhere throughout the United States experience potentially harmful chemical-to-skin exposure each...
