Associate Casey J. Schweppenheiser of Pond Lehocky Stern
Giordano attended the first meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s
Inaugural Workers’ Compensation Bench Bar Committee. Schweppenheiser was invited
to serve on the committee, which consists of workers’ compensation judges,
defense attorneys and claimants’ attorneys from across the state. The
committee’s aim is come up with strategies to improve the practice of Workers’
Compensation law in Pennsylvania.
Even With the Local Roundup Verdict, Punitive Damages Still Aren’t Packing a Punch
I have written in the past about the failure of punitive damages to have the deterrent effect they were designed to have. Rather than deter intentional harm or egregious behavior, the threat punitive damages pose is seemingly ignored by corporations and employers who...