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Judge did not abuse her discretion in imposing a 50% penalty against the employer for refusing to pay fatal claim benefits because her decision awarding benefits contained an incorrect benefit rate and there was no evidence regarding the decedent’s wages.
A workers’ compensation judge issued a decision granting a fatal claim petition and ordered payment of ongoing weekly benefits to the claimant at the rate of 50% of the decedent’s average weekly wage at the time he last worked in 2010.
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Commonwealth Court upholds a decision to enforce a prior judicially approved C&R Agreement wherein the claimant agreed to cooperate by signing Medicare Set-Aside paperwork and later refused.
The claimant settled his workers’ compensation claim by a Compromise and Release Agreement (C&R).
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Failure to Complete Public Entity’s Official Notice of Tort Claim Form Not Substantial Compliance
In Gartenberg v. City of Hackensack, the plaintiff fell and was injured while walking on a sidewalk and alleged that the sidewalk was dilapidated, causing her to fall.
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Pennsylvania Superior Court Strikes Down the Regular Use Exclusion
Rush v. Erie Insurance Exchange, No. 1443 EDA 2020 (Pa. Super. Oct. 22, 2021)
Legal Updates for Insurance Services – October 25, 2021, has been prepared for our readers by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin.
Pennsylvania Federal Court Takes a Bite Out of Restaurant’s COVID/Business Interruption Coverage Claims Against Insurance Broker
A Pennsylvania federal court recently dismissed claims asserted against an insurance broker for breach of contract and declaratory judgment in connection with a COVID-related business interruption loss in State Street Restaurant Group, Inc.
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What's Hot in Workers' Comp - Special PA Alert*
In the October issue of the What’s Hot, issued on September 29, 2021, we reported that the Disaster Declaration, which suspended Section 449 of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act requiring the attestation of the claimant's signature on a C
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