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TT&H attorneys Marc Aoun and John Morgan recently convinced an Altoona-area workers’ compensation judge to grant a termination petition and deny a claim petition in a heavily contested claim originally accepted as carpal tunnel syndrome. The litigation started when the employer’s medical expert found the claimant to be fully recovered in November 2021. Thereafter, the… read more

Thomas, Thomas & Hafer Attorney Joseph Shields recently prevailed before a Northeastern Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Judge on a Claim Petition.  The Employer was a temporary agency and sent its employees to work for one of the Employer’s clients.  However, it did not identify that client as an alternate employer, or location for the employee to… read more

Thomas, Thomas & Hafer attorney Marc Aoun recently prevailed before a Greater Philadelphia Area Workers’ Compensation Judge on a Claim and Penalty Petition. The Claimant sought payment of medical bills and ongoing wage loss relative to an MRSA infection that he alleged he sustained from being scratched by a log at work, which the Claimant… read more

A TT&H team led by partner, Dan Grill,  won a defense verdict in a medical malpractice case in the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County in December 2022. Following an appeal, the Pennsylvania Superior Court has now issued a three-judge panel unanimous opinion rejecting the appeal and upholding the verdict.   A summary of the case… read more

TT&H Attorneys Marc Aoun and John Morgan recently received a favorable decision from the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board over an issue relating to the timeliness of Act 46 claims. The evidence showed that the Claimant was diagnosed with an occupational disease in February 2018, knew or believed it was work-related in February 2018, and stopped… read more