Category: 2016

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire ConnorsO’Dell LLP proudly announces that Michael Laffey, Esquire, has joined the firm as a Partner in its Casualty Practice Litigation Group. Michael will be handling the defense of liability matters, involving personal injury matters, automobile liability, premises liability, products liability, first party liability, and insurance defense matters. Michael is a… Read more »

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire No, this is not a political diatribe on the politically insensitive defect who promises to make “America great” while asking us to believe that only he has the power to do so. Instead, we are talking about the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s most recent pronouncement on impairment ratings that became the… Read more »

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 by… Read more »

By Kevin L. Connors, Esquire Does a Plaintiff have the right to have Counsel present during an Independent Neuropsychological Evaluation, an issue recently addressed by the Pennsylvania Superior Court in Shearer v. Hafer, decided on March 9, 2016? Read my lips, the answer is No! Holding that the Trial Court acted within its discretion in entering… Read more »

By  Kevin L. Connors, Esquire Does being brutally stabbed by your son at home in the middle of the night while you sleep warrant an award of workers’ compensation benefits? This is not a trick question. It was the critical factual/legal issue in O’Rourke v. WCAB, a decision issued by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on October 27,… Read more »

By:Kevin L. Connors, Esquire Recently, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court issued two decisions in October of 2015, addressing the procedural issues that arise in the context of what is the appropriate petition to file, when a Claimant whose workers’ compensation claim has been accepted as a “medical only” claim, with the issuance of a Medical Only… Read more »

By Jeffrey D. Snyder, Esquire In the Commonwealth Court’s Opinion in Agatha Edwards v. WCAB (Epicure Home Care), 1106 C.D. 2015, filed March 10, 2016, the Court re-visited the issue of employee versus independent contractor. The Claimant was a personal caretaker who received her assignments through Epicure.  The case was bifurcated before the WCJ below… Read more »