Area of Practice Focus - Workers Compensation

Using Philadelphia Workers Comp Act (Act), you can be provided with wage-loss compensation benefits and medical expenses. Wage loss benefits can last until you return to the workplace. Death benefits for work-related deaths can be also covered and are usually paid to the person's dependent survivors.

The Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act covers almost all Pennsylvanian employees.

Employers must provide workers' compensation coverage to all of their employees this would include part-time and seasonal staff. Nonprofit corporations, not incorporated businesses, and even employers with only one employee, must comply with the Act's requirements.

The law also covers you regardless of where the you were hired and in some cases injury outside of the sate can be covered.

Philadelphia Workers Compensation claims can require depositions, cross examinations by defending attorneys, sworn testimony, more than one court appearance and a vast knowledge of the governing laws that protect you as an employee in the state of Pennsylvania.