ANNOUNCEMENT

November 13, 2012 by connorsodell

ConnorsLaw extends double congratulations to Kevin Connors, as managing partner, as Kevin was recently asked by Lexis/Nexis to serve on Larson’s National Workers’ Compensation Advisory Board. Larson’s is, of course, a leading national authority on workers’ compensation publications and issues. Conveniently, the Larson’s National Workers’ Compensation Advisory Board met in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the… Read more »

ANNOUNCEMENT

November 13, 2012 by connorsodell

ConnorsLaw extends its congratulations to its Managing Partner, Kevin Connors, recently inducted as a Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America, at its induction ceremony at the Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida, on October 25, 2012. The Litigation Counsel of America is an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society, which limits its membership to 3,500 Fellows,… Read more »

AUTO LAW UPDATE

November 13, 2012 by connorsodell

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire In Rother v. Erie Insurance, the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the applicability of the regularly-used, non-owned vehicle exclusion in the Plaintiff’s personal automobile insurance policy. FACTS The Plaintiff, Patrick Rother, was injured in a motor vehicle accident, driving his father’s car, on March 3, 2007.  At the time of the accident,… Read more »

REFRESH YOURSELF : THE PERSONAL COMFORT DOCTRINE IN WORKERS’ COMPENSATION

November 12, 2012 by connorsodell

By: Kevin L. Connors, Esquire I.          INTRODUCTION:  Universal throughout workers’ compensation statutes, the personal comfort doctrine is a real, and sometimes amusingly interesting, result-oriented principle ubiquitous in workers’ compensation decisions and rulings, at times testing the boundaries of compensability, as employees attending to personal needs, for comfort or sustenance, to include work-time breaks for eating, drinking,… Read more »

PENNSYLVANIA SUSPENSION OF WORKERS’ COMPENSATION BENEFITS

November 05, 2012 by connorsodell

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire To resign or not to resign, whether tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows, Of outrageous compensation, Or to declare, as Howard Beale did in the 1976 movie, Network, “That I resign, Doing so of my own free will and volition, Intending to voluntarily remove myself from the active workforce,… Read more »

NATIONAL WORKERS’ COMPENSATION AND DISABILITY CONFERENCE IN LAS VEGAS

October 30, 2012 by connorsodell

Dear Clients: The National Workers’ Compensation Disability Conference is being held in Las Vegas, Nevada, beginning on November 6, 2012 through November 9, 2012. If any of you are attending the Conference, please drop by the November 7, 2012 Presentation on the Future of Exclusive Remedy, as I will be a panel presenter. In addition, we… Read more »

SIX L’s v. PENNSYLVANIA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD

October 24, 2012 by connorsodell

Six L’s is a game-changing ruling by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. It was decided on May 29, 2012. The ruling deals with statutory employment, in reliance upon Section 302 (a) of the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act. Section 302 (a) of the Pennsylvania WCA sets forth as follows: “A Contractor who subcontracts all or any part of… Read more »

THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT PENNSYLVANIA WORKERS’ COMPENSATION LAW WHEN HANDLING CIVIL LITIGATION CASES

October 17, 2012 by connorsodell

 For many civil litigation practitioners, Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law remains a foreign area of law. Admittedly, there are significant procedural and substantive differences between civil litigation and workers’ compensation which warrant caution for civil litigators traversing into the workers’ compensation arena.              However, basic knowledge of the concepts of workers’ compensation law and the understanding… Read more »

MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL?

October 10, 2012 by connorsodell

Who is the fairest of all? Remember when we all lived lives of desperate isolation? Those were the days! Now, we fall all over ourselves, liking the most inane things, all in a rush to pass judgment before the always-watching eye of our socially irrelevant networking universe. To put this in its proper perspective, Ricky… Read more »

NATIONAL WORKERS’ COMPENSATION DEFENSE NETWORK’S (NWCDN) CHICAGO, IL CONFERENCE ON OCTOBER 3, 2012 AND OCTOBER 4, 2012

September 14, 2012 by connorsodell

Dear Clients: Attached is the National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network’s (NWCDN) 2012 Fall Conference Brochure, highlighting the NWCDN’s Agenda for its upcoming Conference in Chicago, IL, on October 3, 2012 and October 4, 2012. The NWCDN will be hosting a Cocktail Reception at Hugo’s Frog Bar & Fish House, on October 3, 2012.  The Reception… Read more »