December 3, 2015
An employee from Harrisburg, PA, working as a connections coordinator for a retirement community, sustained a work-related injury in October 2012, which the insurance carrier, PMA, accepted as a right knee contusion. During prior litigation, we filed Review Petitions to amend the description of the injury and a Stipulation was then entered into agreeing that the accepted injury would also include a torn meniscus in the right knee and right chronic Achilles insertional tendonitis with aggravation of Haglund’s deformity. The claim ultimately settled for a lump sum of $105,000.00 and for the payment of six months of medical benefits after approval of the settlement by a workers’ compensation judge. From the time the injury occurred until right before the settlement, the injured worker received $145,818.09 in wage loss benefits and $48,489.11 in medical benefits.
