An employee from Lancaster, PA, working as a custodian for a school in Hershey, PA, sustained a work-related injury to his cervical and lumbar back in February 2014, which the insurance carrier, Highmark Casualty Insurance Company, denied. We filed a Claim Petition for the injured worker. The insurance carrier had the injured worker attend an independent medical examination. The IME physician reported that the injured worker sustained an aggravation of pre existing spinal stenosis at C5-C7 with myelopathy. The case ultimately settled for a lump sum of $100,000.00 via a compromise and release. As part of the settlement, the insurance carrier also paid $10,202.04 to the employer to cover the cost of 18 months of the injured worker’s COBRA insurance coverage.
