Category: Employment, Personal Injury Transferability of Skills Analysis: Use in RTW TASA ID: 540 Generally speaking, it does not matter what job the employee is returned to as long as they are 'making' close to their pre-injury wage. If, for some reason, the injured employee cannot return to work or cannot earn as much as they were before the injury. . . Read more
Category: Employment, Personal Injury Changes in PA Workers' Compensation Act 2014 TASA ID: 1823 A Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision made in November 2013, concerning standards for Workers' Compensation for Labor Market Surveys, is understood to substantially increase the burden in attempts of employers in modifying workers' compensation benefits. The decision argued on March 7, 2012 and decided upon November 21, 2013, involved a claimant who was injured during her employment with Phoenixville Hospital. She had applied for five jobs comprising a LMS. Read more
Category: Employment, Medical & Healthcare, Psychology/Psychiatry Assessing Neuro-Cognitive Complaints after Brain Injury: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction in Civil and Criminal Litigation TASA ID: 2434 Plaintiffs and other petitioners often sue for damages due to reported cognitive or emotional impairment. These cognitive impairments are often said to be the result of traumatic brain injury suffered in accidents, toxic exposures or medical procedures. Emotional impairments take the form of alleged depression or "traumatic" anxiety following such events, or those involving employment, business or similar affairs. Read more
Category: Employment, Security Security Guard Contracts TASA ID: 2483 Before September 11, 2001, "security" consisted of three parts: it was a business function, an industry, an academic discipline. The terrorist attacks on that date added a fourth: Homeland Security. Each segment is different, but the one generating the most interest from a legal viewpoint is security as a business function. This is where security's goal is to prevent losses to the greatest extent possible and minimize the cost of those that are inevitable. Read more
Category: Employment, Lost Wages, Personal Injury Use of Vocational Experts in Disability Determination TASA ID: 540 No longer is it permissible to determine disability solely based on the percentage of impairment as dictated by the AMA Guides. Ideally, the physical and psychological limitations that are imposed by an accident and/or disease must now be translated into the loss of specific vocational opportunity Read more
