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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

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

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

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

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES New Jersey Case Summary Sykes v. George Harms Constr. Co. New Jersey Superior Court No. A-3320-20, 2023 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1594 Employer fact witnesses or video evidence are essential to the success of the idiopathic defense. Background The petitioner lost consciousness while operating an excavator. The petitioner believed that while he… read more