Case Results

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.

An union employee from York, PA, working in a heavy duty manufacturing position, sustained a work injury described as a right shoulder strain in February 2012, which the insurance carrier accepted. We filed a Penalty Petition because the insurance carrier illegally suspended the injured workers’ wage loss benefits. The insurance carrier had the injured worker attend an independent medical examination and the IME physician reported that the injured worker’s diagnosis could easily be consistent with a frozen shoulder and that she qualified for surgery to repair her shoulder and he placed her under light duty restrictions.

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.

A Union employee from Bloomsburg, PA, working as a driver for a delivery company, sustained a work injury to his right shoulder in April 2012, which the insurance carrier, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, accepted for payment of medical benefits only as a “left upper arm sprain.” We filed a Claim Petition describing the injury as “right shoulder – torn tendons and torn rotator cuff.” The injured worker was working in a light-duty position at a loss of wages and we requested partial disability from the date of injury to the present and ongoing.

An employee from Lewisberry, PA, working as a merchandiser for a soda company, sustained a work injury accepted as a right shoulder strain/sprain in September 2014, by the insurance carrier, Indemnity Insurance Company of North America. The injured worker was treating with Steven M. DeLuca, D.O., and the insurance carrier filed a Utilization Review Request regarding his prescribing an H-Wave stimulator for the employee to use. A Utilization Review was performed which found that the H-Wave machine was not reasonable and not necessary for the injured worker’s injury.

The injured worker, a resident of Oberlin, Dauphin County, PA, suffered a work injury to the low back while employed for Pitt Ohio Express in 1994. Recently, he treated with Stuart Hartman, D.O. for the work injury, who prescribed medications filled by Injured Workers’ Pharmacy.

The injured worker KG was employed by JDB Construction as a trade carpenter, working construction framing houses. On December 6, 2006, he slipped and fell into a ditch and herniated two (2) discs. The workers’ compensation insurance carrier is the State Workers’ Insurance Fund (SWIF), who accepted liability for this work injury. The injured worker KG underwent back surgery in 2007, along with back and hip injections. His treating physicians are Dr. Robert Boyer, a chiropractor in Chambersburg, PA, and Dr. Curtis Goltz, an orthopedic surgeon in Harrisburg, PA The injured worker KG has been treating with Dr. Boyer for many years.

Harold Crisp (name changed for this summary) was injured in the course of his employment in Carlisle, PA. Gallagher Bassett, the workers’ compensation insurance carrier for the employer, issued a Notice of Temporary Compensation Payable (NTCP) on June 22, 2016 for Mr. Crisp’s June 8, 2016 work injury described as a right knee sprain. The insurance carried then issued a Notice of Workers’ Compensation Denial on August 9, 2016.

Fred Xavier (name changed for this summary) while working for Defendant in June 2014, sustained an injury to his right knee. Inservco, the workers’ compensation insurance carrier for the employer, issued a Notice of Compensation Payable and the injured worker received wages in lieu of workers’ compensation. Mr. Xavier’s injury was accepted as a “right knee medial meniscus tear”.

Trevon Landis (name changed for this summary) was injured in the course of his employment in Muncy, Pennsylvania (PA). PMA, the workers’ compensation insurance carrier for the employer, issued a Notice of Temporary Compensation Payable (NTCP) on December 23, 2014 for Mr. Landis’ November 3, 2014 injury described as a left great toe dislocation. The NTCP converted to a Notice of Compensation Payable (NCP) on February 3, 2015.