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16 Widener L.J. 199 (2006-2007)
Compromise Settlements under State Workers' Compensation Acts: Law, Policy, Practice, and Ten Years of the Pennsylvania Experience

handle is hein.journals/wjpl16 and id is 207 raw text is: WIDENER LAW JOURNAL Copyright © 2007 by the Widener University School of Law VOLUME 16 2007 NUMBER 2 Article COMPROMISE SETTLEMENTS UNDER STATE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACTS: LAW, POLICY, PRACTICE, AND TEN YEARS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA EXPERIENCE David B. Torrey* A.B., 1982, West Virginia University; J.D., 1985, Duquesne University School of Law. Administrative Law Judge, Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry; Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Creator and Co-author, 6-9 DAVID B. TORREY & ANDREW E. GREENBERG, WEST'S PENNSYLVANIA PRACTICE SERIES, WORKERS' COMPENSATION: LAW AND PRACTICE (2d ed. 2002 & Supp. 2006). This article has its genesis in the author's project of analyzing all fifty state laws and practices concerning workers' compensation compromise settlements. Articles or notes by the author reporting on that research, on most jurisdictions, were published serially in the Newsletter of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers' Compensation Law Section, volume VII, issues 72 (Nov. 2002) through 89 (July 2006). The opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author and are not to be ascribed to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry. The author extends his thanks to Judge David W. Henry, Michael E. Relich, Esq., Barbara E. Holmes, Esq., Bradley K. Andreen, Esq., C. Robert Keenan, Esq., Mr. David Wilson, Mr. Thomas McWhorter, J.D. (manuscript text editor), and to his secretary, Mrs. Ruth Anthony, for the assistance they provided during the preparation of this article. Thanks also to University of Pittsburgh School of Law students Erin Crothers (2007), Rachel Felton (2007), and Rachel Kotys (2005), for their research assistance. The author thanks, finally, the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions (IAIABC), for its grant of permission to him to reproduce portions of related articles he published in the IAIABC Journal. See infra notes 42, 129, 928.

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