Work Related Injury? Our Attorneys Represent You at Pennsylvania Workmans Comp Hearings

After a Pennsylvania workmans comp claim is filed by you or your employer for a work related injury, normally a judge in the county where you live is assigned to your case. At this point, everyone involved is informed of the date, time, and place of the hearing. During your workmans comp hearings (usually more than one is required), the judge reviews the evidence of the work related injury presented by both you (or your workers comp attorney) and your employer.

A Pennsylvania workmans comp hearing has both a "moving party" and a "responding party." Depending upon who initiated the claim, you can be either party. For example:

• You are the moving party when you suffer a work related injury and file a claims petition to request Pennsylvania workmans comp payments. Your employer is the responding party since they would be fighting your request for payments.
• You are the responding party when you are fighting your employer's request to modify, stop, or suspend your workmans comp payments. Your employer is the moving party since they have filed a petition to modify, terminate or suspend your payments.

During the hearing, witnesses to the work injury are questioned and cross-examined, evidence is given, additional hearings are scheduled, and a court reporter records it all. After hearings have been exhausted, the case is closed and the judge issues a written decision to everyone involved in your case.

Next steps: after a Pennsylvania workmans comp hearing

After the judge issues a decision, if either party in the case does not agree with the judge's decision, an appeal is filed.

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"Many times I receive calls from injured workers who say, 'Listen, I didn't want to be injured that day and now my employer is treating me like dirt.' Injured workers deserve better treatment. That's where we step in." Attorney Dennis Liotta