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Marc Aoun and Cailey Farinaro of TT&H’s Allentown, Pennsylvania Office successfully defended a Claim Petition seeking medical and indemnity benefits for alleged work injuries in the nature of a lumbar disc herniation with an aggravation of lumbar spondylolisthesis, stenosis, and spondylosis requiring surgical intervention and resulting in chronic pain, nerve damage, and foot drop. The… read more

Mike Bliley, who leads TT&H’s Virginia Workers’ Compensation practice from the firm’s Fairfax office, prevailed on a claim of lifetime medical benefits for an alleged neck injury, including a cervical fusion surgery. Claimant fell on her side, injuring her shoulder. She later claimed that she also injured her neck in the same fall, and underwent… read more

TT&H Attorney Logan Nagle recently won a defense verdict following a two-day jury trial in Montgomery County.  The jury deliberated for just over twenty minutes before finding that the motor vehicle accident at issue was not a factual cause of the Plaintiff’s alleged harm.  The case involved a Plaintiff who had a considerable history of… read more

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES FEDERAL CASE SUMMARY Grady v. Rothwell United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania No. 4:22-CV-00428, 2022 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 203694 Decided: November 8, 2022 Conducting business nationwide is not enough to confer personal jurisdiction on an out-of-state furniture company for an accident occurring outside Pennsylvania. Background Plaintiff, administrator of… read more

SIGNIFICANT CASE SUMMARIES Pennsylvania Case Summaries Reibenstein v. Barax Pennsylvania Supreme Court No. 32 MAP 2021 Decided: December 12, 2022 The phrase “cause of death,” as used in MCARE Section 513(d), refers specifically to the medical cause of death only, i.e., the physical processes precipitating the death. Background Decedent presented to primary care physician complaining… read more