July 16, 2014 (Philadelphia, PA) -Martin Law attorney Maria E. Bermudez will participate as a panel member in what is billed as a “spellbinding” event hosted by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute: “Clarence Darrow: Crimes, Causes and the Courtroom” will take place Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 8:30 a.m. – noon at the PBI’s CLE Conference Center,… Read more
Identifying workplace hazards is no game, but training to recognize potential dangers could be. At least that’s the idea behind a new online tool introduced by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The agency’s Assistant Secretary David Michaels, Ph.D., M.P.H. announced the new tool at an American Society of Safety Engineers conference in Orlando,… Read more
Temp jobs are a permanent part of the new normal in the U.S. economy. An increasing number of workers in Pennsylvania and other states are temporary workers, and with the increase has come new concerns about worker safety. A Pennsylvania accident recently highlighted in an article by the journalism group ProPublica shows some of the… Read more
July 10, 2014 (Philadelphia, PA) – With the addition of three more attorneys at Martin Law who have received certifications in Workers’ Compensation, the firm now holds the greatest number of certified attorneys in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Attorneys John Dogum, Amit Shah and Joseph Conlan are newly-certified Workers’ Compensation Specialists after successfully taking the… Read more
One of the arguments that many people make against the Social Security system is that the people who draw money from the program are “double dipping.” This argument alludes to the idea that some people collect disability checks from Social Security while also collecting unemployment checks. People argue that this is unfair. First of all,… Read more
Firefighters, police and other public workers face hazards every day on the job – but not all of them are immediately apparent. For example, firefighters have increased cancer rates, and first responders must deal with the emotional trauma of the serious situations they live through. The nature of these injuries and illnesses can create challenging… Read more
July 2, 2014 (Philadelphia, PA) – Martin Law partner Matt Wilson has been named chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Law Section. The section serves as a conduit of information on developments in workers’ compensation law to practitioners throughout the state. The section also acts as a liaison with the Pennsylvania Bureau of… Read more
There are certain lines of work where you might expect to have a gun pointed at you, for example, law enforcement. But if you work in a retail job, chances are you aren’t expecting to be robbed at gunpoint in the normal course of a workday. If that were the case, you might not even… Read more
Often, disputes in workers’ compensation claims involves medical questions, such as whether carpal tunnel syndrome is job related or whether a heart attack stems from work. In other cases, the issue is not the injury at all. Instead, it involves whether the injury happened during the course and scope of employment. In Pennsylvania, the Workers’… Read more
As we round out June’s National Safety Month and head into the holiday weekend we thought it was good time to take a minute to review some summer safety tips. While most of these are common sense, it never hurts to have a reminder so that safety is at the top of the mind when… Read more
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