GROUP BLOG: Class action lawsuits targeting healthcare facilities for missed meal breaks are on the rise

Sep 30, 2015 | Articles & Updates

In his latest post for the Employment Law Blotter, Joseph Gordon examines the significant increase in wage and hour cases involving allegations that employees at healthcare facilities were not paid for work that they performed during an unpaid meal break. Click here...

GROUP BLOG: Third Circuit decision benefits employers in suspension with pay claims under Title VII

Sep 29, 2015 | Articles & Updates

In Joshua Brand’s most recent Employment Law Blotter post, he examines the Third Circuit Court’s recent decision in Jones v. Southeastern Pa. Transp., Auth. (SEPTA) involving a “suspension with pay” claim under Title VII. Click here to read it.

ATTORNEY BLOG: Recent decision in Protz v. WCAB (Derry Area School District) muddles IRE process in Workers’ Compensation Act

Sep 28, 2015 | Articles & Updates

By: Joseph C. Romano, Esq. In a significant and surprising decision in Protz v. WCAB (Derry Area School District), No. 1024 C.D. 2014 (Pa.Cmwlth. 2015), the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania determined that the Impairment Rating Evaluation (IRE) process utilizing the...

Transportation Group secures defense verdict for two major railroad clients in a repetitive stress injury case

Sep 15, 2015 | News

Members Daniel J. Hampton and T.H. Lyda obtained a defense verdict for two major railroad clients in a week-long jury trial in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County. The claim, brought under the Federal Employers’ Liability Act (FELA), involved a...

Burns White strengthens its Professional Liability Practice with the addition of two Members in Pittsburgh

Aug 25, 2015 | News

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 25, 2015 — Burns White hired James R. Schadel and Scott R. Eberle, both formerly of Weinheimer, Schadel & Haber, P.C., as Members to the firm’s Pittsburgh headquarters. Both attorneys have established practices in professional liability defense...