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Pennsylvania’s Workers’ Compensation Act requires employers to carry insurance that pays benefits to employees hurt on the job, no fault required. If you were injured at work in Abington, the workers’ comp lawyers at Win Big Law can help you secure medical care, wage replacement, and the other benefits the law provides.

Hurt on the Job in Abington? Don't Take Less Than the Law Allows

A serious work injury can take your paycheck, your medical care, and your peace of mind in the same week. Injured workers in Pennsylvania can claim medical treatment, wage loss benefits, specific loss compensation, and death benefits for surviving families, but most adjusters will not volunteer the full value. Win Big Law represents injured workers across Abington Township and the surrounding Montgomery County area, pushing back when insurance carriers minimize a claim, deny treatment, or terminate benefits prematurely.

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Why Work Injuries Are Common Around Abington

Abington Township sits in one of Pennsylvania’s busiest workers’ compensation jurisdictions. Montgomery County logged 6,487 work injury claims in 2021, putting it in the state’s top five. The pattern reflects who works here. Nurses and aides at Abington Hospital – Jefferson Health and Holy Redeemer Hospital hurt their backs and shoulders lifting and moving patients. Retail and service workers along Old York Road and at Willow Grove Park deal with slips, falls, and repetitive strain. Warehouse and delivery crews near the Willow Grove Turnpike interchange face lifting injuries and crashes, and construction workers across Roslyn, Ardsley, and Meadowbrook face falls and equipment injuries.

What Workers' Compensation Provides

Pennsylvania workers’ comp provides several distinct categories of benefits, each with its own rules and limits.

Paying Medical Bills

Medical treatment, hospital stays, prescriptions, and rehab are all covered. For the first 90 days, you may have to treat with a provider from your employer’s posted panel, which must list at least six providers. That rule only applies if the panel was properly posted and you were told about it. You should not pay copays or deductibles for covered care.

Covering Lost Wages

Temporary total disability pays roughly two-thirds of your average weekly wage, capped by the state’s annual maximum. If you return at reduced pay, temporary partial disability pays roughly two-thirds of the wage difference.

Vocational Retraining

Once a doctor clears you for some type of work, the carrier can require a vocational interview and an earning power assessment. The expert lists open jobs in your area that fit your restrictions, and the carrier may use those jobs to argue your benefits should be cut. We review these reports closely, since the listed jobs often don’t match your real limits.

Benefits for Permanent Disability

Lasting disability triggers long-term wage benefits based on your pre-injury earnings and impairment. Specific loss benefits pay separately for the permanent loss of use of a body part, on a statutory schedule. For example, the loss of use of a hand pays 335 weeks of benefits. The schedule also covers serious, permanent scarring of the head, face, or neck, for up to 275 weeks.

Benefits for Fatal Accidents

A fatal work injury triggers death benefits for surviving family, including funeral expenses and wage replacement. Funeral costs are covered up to $3,000. A surviving spouse with no children receives 51 percent of the worker’s weekly wage, and the share goes up with eligible children, to a maximum of 66 2/3 percent.

Going Up Against the Insurance Carrier

Insurance carriers profit when they deny claims or minimize benefits, and they hire defense attorneys to make that happen. Our own Marisa Hill spent nearly a decade as one of those insurance defense attorneys, so we know how carriers build their case.

Insurance Companies Benefit When You Don't

Carriers and their attorneys use a range of tactics to minimize claim value. They commonly hire private investigators to follow injured workers, capturing video of physical activity that they later use to argue you are not really hurt. Another common move is offering a light-duty job that doesn’t fit your doctor’s restrictions, then trying to cut your benefits if you turn it down Knowing these tactics and how to neutralize them is part of the job.

Experienced Lawyers Get the Job Done

Our workers’ compensation lawyers have years of experience fighting for injured workers across Eastern Pennsylvania. We try Abington-area cases at the Workers’ Compensation Office of Adjudication’s Norristown hearing site, where Montgomery County claims are decided, and we know the local Workers’ Compensation Judges and the defense firms who appear there. Frank Udinson has helped thousands of injured workers, and carriers know we are ready to take a case to a hearing.

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When Your Workers' Comp Claim Is Denied or Cut Off

After you report an injury, the carrier has 21 days to accept it with a Notice of Compensation Payable, deny it with a Notice of Workers’ Compensation Denial, or pay under a Notice of Temporary Compensation Payable for up to 90 days while it looks into the claim. Carriers can deny your initial claim, terminate ongoing benefits, refuse to pay for treatment, or move to convert your benefits to partial disability after 104 weeks. Each move has a procedural answer, such as a claim, review, penalty, or reinstatement petition, and the deadlines are short.

Common Reasons PA Workers' Comp Claims Get Denied

Disputed work connection, notice given after 120 days, pre-existing condition arguments, being labeled an independent contractor instead of an employee, or treatment outside the posted panel during the first 90 days.

How to Appeal a Denied Workers' Comp Claim in Pennsylvania

A Claim Petition goes to a Workers’ Compensation Judge and generally must be filed within three years of the injury.. Appeals run to the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board within 20 days of the judge’s decision, then the Commonwealth Court. Missing a filing deadline can end your claim.

Independent Medical Examinations (IMEs)

The carrier can send you to a doctor of its choosing. The report is typically used to argue your benefits should be reduced or terminated, so how you handle the exam matters. You generally have to attend, or the carrier can ask a judge to suspend your benefits. Be honest, keep your answers short, and don’t downplay or exaggerate your pain.

Utilization Review

The carrier can challenge whether a treatment is reasonable and necessary. A reviewing doctor decides whether the bill gets paid. If the decision goes against you, you have 30 days to appeal it to a Workers’ Compensation Judge.

Impairment Rating Evaluations (IREs)

After 104 weeks of total disability, the carrier can request an IRE. A whole-body rating below 35 percent converts your benefits from total to partial disability and caps remaining wage loss at 500 weeks. Your weekly check usually stays the same, but the 500-week clock starts running. You can challenge the rating with an evaluation from your own doctor.

The Most Common Workplace Injuries

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor, the leading causes of workplace injury in 2021 included overexertion, physical impacts, falls, motor vehicle accidents, and crush accidents. Around Abington, that usually means back and shoulder injuries from lifting, broken bones and head injuries from falls, and neck and back injuries from driving for work.

Occupational Illnesses

Pennsylvania workers’ comp covers occupational diseases, not just one-time injuries. If you work in an industry with a known occupational hazard, your illness is presumed to be work-related, which can simplify proving the claim. For most occupational diseases, the claim must be filed within 300 weeks of your last exposure at work.

Psychological Trauma

Pennsylvania recognizes psychological injuries from work, but the rules are strict. You may qualify if a physical injury caused a psychological condition, if workplace mental stress caused a physical condition like a heart attack or stroke, or if an abnormal workplace event caused a psychological disorder. The bar for that last category is high.

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Win Big Law - Frank Udinson

Frank Udinson

  • Former Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia
  • Magna cum laude law graduate
  • Accredited VA attorney (since 2013)
  • Recovered over $1 million in veteran benefits
Marisa Hill, Esq.,

Marisa Hill

  • Former defense attorney for employers and insurers
  • Health Care Law concentration from Drexel University
  • Brings nearly a decade of defense-side experience to help injured workers today

What to Do After a Work Injury

Evidence and witnesses are most accessible right after an accident. As soon as you can, seek medical treatment, give your employer notice of the accident and your injuries, photograph the area where it happened, identify any witnesses and get their contact information, avoid talking with the insurance carrier, and consult a workers’ comp attorney.

Report Your Injury To Your Employer

Pennsylvania law requires you to give your employer notice of a work injury within 120 days. Report within 21 days and benefits can start from the date of the injury. Miss that window and your claim is barred. The sooner you report, the easier it is to prove the injury happened on the job.
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File a LIBC-100

The LIBC-100 is the state's "Workers' Compensation and the Injured Worker" notice. Your employer should give you a copy after you report your injury, since it explains your rights and the steps that come next. Your employer then reports the injury to its insurance carrier, which starts the 21-day clock. Your employer is required to post the workers' comp information bulletin at your workplace, which includes the carrier's contact information.
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Consult Your Doctor

Get medical attention right away. For the first 90 days, you must treat with a provider on your employer's posted panel. After that, you can switch to your own physician. If you do not have one, we can connect you with a doctor who handles work injury cases.
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Don't Sign Anything Without a Lawyer

Before you sign or settle anything with the insurance carrier, talk to a workers' comp attorney about what you might be giving up. Most Pennsylvania settlements are done through a Compromise and Release agreement that a judge has to approve at a hearing. Once it's approved, you usually give up future wage benefits for that injury, and often medical benefits too, so the number needs to be right.
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Questions Injured Workers in Abington Ask Us Most

Can my employer fire me for filing a workers' comp claim in Pennsylvania?

Pennsylvania law prohibits employers from firing you in retaliation for filing a workers’ compensation claim. If you are terminated or your job is eliminated after you file, you may have a separate wrongful termination claim. Employers are not required to hold your exact position open indefinitely while you recover, but they cannot punish you for using the system.

Sometimes, yes. If a third party caused your injury, like a negligent driver, a defective tool manufacturer, or another contractor on your job site, you can file a personal injury claim against them in addition to your workers’ comp claim. Third-party recoveries can include pain and suffering damages, which workers’ comp does not pay. The carrier usually has a lien on part of that recovery for what it already paid you, which is one more reason to have one firm handle both claims.

No. Workers’ compensation wage loss benefits are not taxable at the state or federal level. This is one reason a workers’ comp settlement can be more valuable than the same dollar figure in regular wages.

Repetitive trauma and cumulative injuries are covered under Pennsylvania workers’ comp. Common examples include carpal tunnel from years of typing or scanning, and back problems from years of lifting patients or packages. The 120-day notice clock typically does not start on the date you first felt pain. It starts on the date you knew or should have known your condition was work-related, often the date a doctor connects it to your job.

Nothing upfront. Pennsylvania caps workers’ compensation attorney fees at 20 percent of the benefits recovered, and the fee comes out of those benefits, not your pocket. If there is no recovery, you owe nothing. Initial consultations are free.

We Serve All of Eastern Pennsylvania

Our office is located in Richboro, but we litigate workers’ compensation claims and personal injury cases for people from all locations in southeastern Pennsylvania including:

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Let Marisa, Frank, and Shu Win Big for You

Between Marisa’s years defending insurance carriers and Frank’s work with thousands of injured workers, our team knows both sides of a workers’ comp claim. If you were hurt at work in Abington, call 215-398-6719 to talk through your case and your next step.

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