Your PA Work Comp Claim is Accepted
Your Employer Accepts Responsibility
If your employer accepts the responsibility for your injury, you will receive a "notice of compensation payable". In some cases, you may be issued temporary work comp payments for 90 days.
Visiting a Doctor
In Pennsylvania, if your employer has a list of doctors posted at your worksite, you must be seen by one of these doctors for the first 90 days of your injury. You can ignore the posted doctors and treat with you own doctor, but your employer does not have to pay any medical bills until after the first 90 days of your injury. If a list is not posted at the worksite, you can see your own doctor right away.
What happens next?
After the visit to a doctor, one of the following will occur.
- No action is taken by your employer and your Pennsylvania work comp payments continue. You don't need to do anything else at this point.
- You recover from your injury and are well enough to return to work. You don't need to do anything else at this point.
- You are being paid under a 90-day temporary approval for work comp payments. If your employer denies future work comp payments and you are too injured to return to work, you should contact us. We can help you with a claims petition requesting that the payments continue.
- If you are collecting work comp payments and receive a petition to "terminate, modify, or suspend your payments," you should contact our law firm as soon as possible. If you don't have a lawyer already, we can help you fight for your work comp payments.
Hurt on the job? Put our experience to work for you
If you don't have an attorney to help you with your injury claim, the deck is stacked against you. It is important to know your legal rights if you are injured at work. The law firm of Edgar Snyder & Associates has been helping injured Pennsylvania workers for nearly 20 years. Let us put this experience to work for you.
Free Legal Evaluation
If you suffered an injury at work, and don't already have an attorney, you can contact our law firm for a free evaluation of your claim by:
- Filling out a simple online form so we can evaluate your claim.
- Calling toll-free 1-866-802-2643. Our phones answer 24 hours a day/7 days a week.
It won't cost you a dime to have our staff review your claim. We'll listen to what you have to say and let you know your options based on what you have shared. It's free and there's no further obligation. And, as always, there is never a fee unless we get money for you.
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