Per diem

Compensation benefits, whether temporary or permanent, are based on an injured workers’ average weekly wage. As such, if per diem payments are included in the average weekly wage calculation, the...

If the Act is to be opened for Amendment, there are other key issues currently the subject of conflict in the jurisprudence that can be addressed. The definition of “adjoining” in section 3(a) can...

You would think that at any given time, the worker and the employer would know how much the worker was being paid. But it’s not always so easy. In the majority of cases the injured worker and the...

I’ve occasionally referred to the fact that you do not always get the same answer to the same question from one federal circuit court of appeals to another with regard to certain issues arising...