Jerry M Lehocky

August 15, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

The annual report provides in-depth statistics regarding workplace injuries/illnesses and workers' compensation claims. The report offers insights into trends through such statistics as the rate of worker injuries/illnesses, what kinds of injuries/illnesses are occurring, and which industries and workers are seeing the highest rates of injuries/illnesses.

By Jerry M. Lehocky

7 minute read

March 19, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Those personal injury attorneys representing injured workers in their third-party claims who do not understand this interplay and blindly rely on the third party settlement form risk potentially committing legal malpractice.

By Jerry M. Lehocky

8 minute read

December 18, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Already struggling with their circumstances during the holiday season, many injured workers have to face an additional obstacle: A suspiciously timed annual "error" by workers' compensation insurance carriers that prevents these workers from receiving their workers' compensation benefits as scheduled.

By Jerry M. Lehocky

7 minute read

September 28, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

Here are 12 noteworthy statistics from the report and what they may tell us about Pennsylvania workers, their jobs and their employers.

By Jerry M. Lehocky

8 minute read

July 20, 2023 | The Legal Intelligencer

In cases where our clients are seriously injured, a credible and persuasive life care plan should be a key component of our litigation strategy and a tool we should not hesitate to invest in for the benefit of our clients.

By Jerry M. Lehocky

6 minute read

April 21, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

Even as society attempts to restore many of the in-person interactions COVID-19 took away from us, the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry, Bureau of Workers' Compensation should not let remote workers' compensation hearings fade into history.

By Jerry M. Lehocky

9 minute read

November 24, 2021 | The Legal Intelligencer

Many of the eye-opening statistics in the 2020 Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation and Workplace Safety Annual Report reflect a changing workers' compensation landscape that cannot be exclusively chalked up to advances in technology. Instead, the statistics reflect the unmistakably changing faces of injured workers in Pennsylvania.

By Jerry M. Lehocky

10 minute read

September 29, 2016 | The Legal Intelligencer

How's that leg you accidentally banged against your desk a couple of months ago? Has it started feeling worse every time you stand up from your chair? And how's that wrist that's beginning to ache from carrying your laptop around the office day after day?

By Jerry M. Lehocky

12 minute read