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November 16, 2023
eNotes: Workers’ Compensation – November 2023 – West Virginia
SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES West Virginia Case Summary Hood v. Lincare Holdings, Inc. Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia September 2023 term, No. 21-0754 Decided: November 9, 2023 The factfinder (Board of Review) has discretion to use the increased-risk test when deciding whether an employee sustained a compensable injury while the employee was engaged in… read more
November 09, 2023
Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Grants Application to Publish Case Handled by TT&H Attorney Burke McLemore that Dismissed a Claimant’s Review and Reinstatement Petitions
The Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court granted an application to publish a Workers’ Compensation case that Burke McLemore of TT&H’s Camp Hill, Pennsylvania office won. Burke persuaded the Workers’ Compensation Judge that the three year statute of repose barred the Claimant’s review and reinstatement petitions despite the Claimant having filed the petitions within three years of having… read more
November 07, 2023
TT&H Law Clerk, Alexandra Mitchell, Attends Posthumous Bar Admission Ceremony for Edward Garrison Draper
Alexandra Mitchell, a law clerk in the firm’s Baltimore, MD office and a third-year student at the University of Baltimore School of Law, recently attended the historical posthumous bar admission ceremony for Edward Garrison Draper. Edward Garrison Draper was a free black man who was over qualified to be admitted to the Maryland Bar. In… read more
November 06, 2023
eNotes: Workers’ Compensation – October 2023 – Pennsylvania
SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Pennsylvania Case Summaries Charter v. Lehigh Valley Health Network (WCAB) Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania No. 1152 C.D. 2022 Decided: September 22, 2023 A claimant will not be entitled to litigation costs where he/she does not prevail on a contested issue. Background The claimant sustained a work injury on September 15, 2020, and… read more
November 06, 2023
eNotes: Workers’ Compensation – October 2023 – Maryland
SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Maryland Case Summary Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association v. Cree Appellate Court of Maryland 2023 Md. App. Decided: September 6, 2023 Because the last injurious exposure rule in Md. Code Ann., Lab. & Empl. § 9-502(b) does not apply to occupational hearing loss cases as set out in § 9-505(b), when allocating liability among… read more