Why Form 5495 Compensation 2017-2023

This is the American Law Journal you get injured at work you want to get better the boss wants you to get better so why is there such a pitched battle in the state of Pennsylvania as to who controls the medical process good evening I'm Christopher Norton tonight workers comp and the company dock for guests join me tonight Hellman banks is in the studio for the first time partner with Martin banks of the law firm authored the workers compensation handbook and the firm has been in practice for about four decades Anthony Sal vino is with us this evening a returning player here on the program with white and Williams they're the respondents counsel in the land of workers compensation he represents the insurance carriers and the corporations he also chairs white and Williams workers compensation section George Bailey is back he has Ellis Lee been representing claimants and plaintiffs in both workers compensation and personal injury matters with Beatty Sloan and digenova lovely offices they are Locust Street in Philadelphia and the Honorable Joseph hakken is with us once again and the judge has spent over two decades on the bench formerly in a former life a plaintiff and a defense attorney so I think he knows a few things about a lot of workers compensation here's a new bill that's being proposed in the state of Pennsylvania it's been sitting around for the last six or seven months but if it's passed they will change the way workers compensation and doctors work together in that state a bill that would extend from 90 days to 180 days the period during which an employee who has filed a workers compensation claim must seek treatment from an employer designated medical provider panel that means you'd have to...