The insurance company has adjusters, doctors, and lawyers protecting their money. You get us protecting yours. Wage checks, medical bills, and disability ratings — fought for by a firm that's been on job sites, not just in libraries.
Know Your Benefits
Pennsylvania workers' comp covers more than most injured workers ever claim. The insurer won't volunteer this list — so here it is.
Roughly two-thirds of your average weekly wage, tax-free, while you can't work — including overtime and second jobs in the calculation.
Most underpaid benefit →Surgery, therapy, medication, mileage to appointments — 100% covered, no copays, for as long as treatment is reasonable.
No copays, ever →Fixed schedules of weeks of pay for loss or loss-of-use of fingers, hands, arms, legs, hearing, vision, or scarring.
Often missed entirely →A lump-sum Compromise & Release when it beats weekly checks — valued correctly, with Medicare's interests handled.
Never sign unreviewed →Death benefits for spouses and children, plus burial costs. Handled with the care these cases deserve.
For the family →When someone besides your employer caused the injury — a subcontractor, a defective machine — a separate lawsuit can multiply recovery.
Beyond comp →Claim Denied?
Insurers deny strong claims because most workers give up. Judges reverse denials every week in Pittsburgh — with the right evidence and the right lawyer.
We rebuild the timeline with witnesses, records, and treating-physician opinions. Repetitive-stress and aggravation injuries count too.
A 15-minute insurance exam doesn't outrank your surgeon. We depose their doctor and make the record say what your body says.
That first C&R offer is priced for a worker without counsel. Represented settlements in our office average 2.8× the opening offer.
"Light duty" that isn't, or a job that vanishes after you return. We challenge bad-faith return-to-work games before they cut your checks.
The Crew
Between us: a millwright's apprenticeship, a decade of union-side practice, and 2,700 injured workers made whole.
Founding Partner · Certified WC Specialist
Worked two summers as a millwright's apprentice at the Edgar Thomson plant before law school. Dan has argued before every workers' comp judge in Allegheny County — and reads job-site hazards like a foreman.
Certified Specialist, PA Workers' Compensation Law · AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee
Partner · Medical Evidence
Former insurance-defense attorney who knows exactly how carriers build denials — because she used to write them. Tamara cross-examines IME doctors with their own prior testimony.
J.D., Pitt Law · 400+ WC hearings · Healthcare worker claims lead
Punch List
Scaffold collapse — ironworker with spinal fusion. Comp settlement plus a negligence suit against the staging subcontractor.
Ironworker, Local 3Nurse with a lifting injury denied as "degenerative." Judge credited her surgeon; carrier paid three years of back benefits.
ICU nurse, UPMC systemPress operator lost two fingers; carrier had paid wage loss only. We claimed the specific-loss schedule they never mentioned.
Machine operator, Westmoreland Co.Illustrative results; recoveries depend on wages, injuries, and case facts. No outcome is guaranteed.
Free Case Review
Twenty minutes on the phone and you'll know if your checks are right, if your denial can be beaten, and what your case is actually worth. Free, and we mean it.