Category: 2015

By Kevin L. Connors ConnorsO’Dell proudly congratulates its two Super Partners, Kevin Connors, Managing Partner, as well as Chair of the Casualty Trial Practice Group, and Robert F. Horn, Chair of our Subrogation Practice Group, as both were recently confirmed as Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for 2015, in affirmation of their super professional status, as recognized… Read more »

By: Robert F. Horn, Esquire Yes, Domtar was our firm’s case, in which we represented our clients, Liberty Mutual and Schneider National, seeking to perfect our clients’ independent right of subrogating their workers’ compensation lien against the third-party tortfeasor that caused injuries to Schneider’s employee, resulting in workers’ compensation benefits being paid to its employee, George Lawrence…. Read more »

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire “If you are going to do something tonight that you’d be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late”, sayeth Henny Youngman. This is the story of the “Late Answer” to a Claim Petition that was not, just that, late. In Patrick Washington v. WCAB (National Freight Industries, Inc.), the Commonwealth Court… Read more »

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire TO ALL WORKERS’ COMPENSATION PRACTITIONERS AND CLIENTS: The National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network is hosting 2015 Spring Seminar in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 18, 2015. The NWCDN event is open to all NWCDN member firms and their invited guests. There is no charge for this event to any NWCDN guest…. Read more »

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire Recently, the Pennsylvania Superior Court, in an Opinion authored by Justice Shogan on April 17, 2015, upheld a “named driver only” provision in an automobile insurance policy, under which the insurance carrier, was only required to provide coverage for the named insured driver, and not for the operator of the… Read more »

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire ConnorsO’Dell proudly announces that Joseph Forkin, Esquire, has joined the firm as a Partner in its Workers’ Compensation Practice Group. Joe will be handling the defense of workers’ compensation matters, having been a practicing workers’ compensation defense attorney since 1996. Joe is a Graduate of LaSalle University in Philadelphia. He… Read more »

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire This question is at the very heart of premises liability cases, predicated on claiming that a Property Owner’s negligence results in personal injury to a business invitee, be it pedestrian, or other, with the flashpoint being what constitutes a defect that might require action by a Property Owner in avoidance… Read more »

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire Close your eyes. Now imagine your dream job. No, it is not being asked to play Jack Nicholson, or, for that matter, Nurse Ratchet, in the classically disturbing One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Nor, is it being Dirty Harry, never sure how many bullets are left in your gun… Read more »

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire Kevin Connors, the Managing Partner of ConnorsO’Dell LLP, recently moderated a Captive Risk Workers’ Compensation Management Conference, hosted by Artex Risk Management, at the Hotel del Coronado in Coronado, California on February 19, 2015. Connors moderated a Panel of Workers’ Compensation defense attorneys, all whom are members of the National… Read more »

By Jeffrey D. Snyder, Esquire In Jacqueline Fields v. WCAB (City of Philadelphia), decided by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court on November 14, 2014, the Court addressed the issue of whether benefits payable for an injured employee sustaining multiple specific losses, arising from the same injury, should be paid consecutively, as opposed to being paid concurrently… Read more »