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Marc Aoun and Cailey Farinaro of TT&H’s Allentown, Pennsylvania Office successfully defended a Claim Petition seeking medical and indemnity benefits for alleged work injuries in the nature of a lumbar disc herniation with an aggravation of lumbar spondylolisthesis, stenosis, and spondylosis requiring surgical intervention and resulting in chronic pain, nerve damage, and foot drop. The… read more

TT&H Attorney Logan Nagle recently won a defense verdict following a two-day jury trial in Montgomery County.  The jury deliberated for just over twenty minutes before finding that the motor vehicle accident at issue was not a factual cause of the Plaintiff’s alleged harm.  The case involved a Plaintiff who had a considerable history of… read more

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Pennsylvania Case Summaries Reibenstein v. Barax Pennsylvania Supreme Court No. 32 MAP 2021 Decided: December 12, 2022 The phrase “cause of death,” as used in MCARE Section 513(d), refers specifically to the medical cause of death only, i.e., the physical processes precipitating the death. Background Decedent presented to primary care physician complaining… read more

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Pennsylvania Case Summaries Kratz v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Corrections (WCAB) Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania 2022 Pa. Commw. Unpub. LEXIS 527, 2022 WL 17332418 Decided: November 30, 2022 Commonwealth Court defers on creating a “sexual assault” exception to the test applicable for a physical/mental injury. Background The Claimant was a nurse… read more

In the debut episode of “Ask the Guru”, Workers’ Compensation defense lawyers, Burke McLemore, Cailey Farinaro, and John Morgan help educate clients about issues that arise while handling workers’ compensation claims. Cailey and John pose a variety of thought-provoking questions,  asking the “Guru,” Burke, questions about Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation. In the first video, John, Cailey,… read more