The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Denise Elliott and Paul Clouser | October 28, 2018
Is there overlap between Pennsylvania's 2-year-old Medical Marijuana Act and the much much older Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act? You bet there is. Just look at the list of qualifying medical conditions for which a Pennsylvania resident may obtain medical marijuana.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Ruxandra M. Osgood | October 27, 2018
The Workers' Compensation Act provides protections and remedies for workers injured in the course and scope of their employment. Due to the humanitarian purposes of the act, the courts have held that the act is remedial in nature and must be liberally construed in light most favorable to injured workers in order to effectuate its humanitarian objective.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Carl W. Hittinger and Jeanne-Michele Mariani | October 26, 2018
As some presidents can attest, U.S. Supreme Court justices are more likely to change their judicial philosophies once appointed than any other nominee to the federal court system.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Craig Tractenberg. | October 26, 2018
Growth can be expensive, but it is always more expensive when the expansion is taken without risk assessment. Whether domestic or foreign, many risks can be reduced or avoided by proper consideration of differences between where you are now and where you want to go.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Zachary M. Rubinich | October 26, 2018
Historically, employees either drove or commuted into work five days a week. As the digital age has advanced, remote work has become a standard practice for many companies in various types of industries.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Marianne Henry Saylor | October 26, 2018
In 1972, the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act was amended to include language mandating that attorney fees be awarded as a cost to the employer unless the employer established that it had a reasonable basis to contest the claim.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Lucas J. Csovelak | October 25, 2018
In the aftermath of a contentious allegation of a work-related injury, the relationship between an employer and injured worker, in many instances, inevitably deteriorates during the course of litigation.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Melanie Breaux | October 25, 2018
These days, “diversity” and “inclusion” (or D and I, the catchphrase du jour) are hot topics in firms of all sizes. Despite the current popularity of these issues, too often there is much talk and little action, and these important discussion points are relegated to trivial buzzwords.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Leonard Deutchman | October 25, 2018
The court is to be lauded both in its criticism of existing precedent and in its recognition of its role in inviting the appellate courts to rewrite that precedent rather than doing so itself. In the first part of this column, I shall discuss why the court is right on both counts.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Stephanie Kennan | October 25, 2018
When Congress passed HR 6, the “Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act” (also known as SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act) as its response to the opioid epidemic, it included provisions to expand capacity in Medicare and includes preventative measures for a population that is vulnerable to opioid-use disorder.
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