Experience

• Successfully prosecuted an employer's Petition for Termination of all workers' compensation benefits. In reaching this decision, the Judge credited the testimony of the IME physician, that the claimant fully recovered,  over that of the claimant and his treating physician regarding ongoing pain and disability.

• Successfully defended a Claim Petition, alleging a work-related aggravation of left knee arthritis necessitating a total knee replacement with various periods of disability. The employer was not responsible for medical expenses, disability benefits or litigation costs. The Workers’ Compensation Judge (WCJ) concluded that the claimant failed to prove timely notice to the employer of the alleged injury from March 2017. The WCJ also concluded that the claimant failed to prove through medical evidence her left knee condition was caused or aggravated by a work incident or by general work activities.

• The Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board affirmed the decision of a Worker’s Compensation Judge to terminate an employee’s workers' compensation benefits upon medical testimony of full recovery and corroborating surveillance evidence. The Board affirmed the decision of the Judge to deny the employee’s petition to add mental injuries and the decision that chiropractic treatment was unreasonable and unnecessary following a Utilization Review Determination. There will be recourse to seek reimbursement from the Supersedeas Fund for benefits already paid that were retroactively deemed unwarranted by the litigation.