Workers’ Compensation • Counsel’s Entitlement to Contingent Fee of Future Settlement • Client’s Rejection of Settlement Offer and Discharge of Counsel
Cruz-Ortiz v. Workers’ Compensation Appeal Bd. (McFarland Landscape Serv.), PICS Case No. 17-0698 (Pa. Commw. April 27, 2017) Pellegrini, J. (10 pages).
Prior counsel not entitled to contingent fee on settlement offer “on the table” at the time of discharge, where offer was withdrawn by subsequent counsel and a substantially different offer was then negotiated by subsequent counsel. Order of the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board affirmed.
