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If you were hurt on the job in Muhlenberg Township, Pennsylvania law gives you the right to Berks County workers’ compensation benefits for your medical care and lost wages. For over 34 years, the team at Lerner, Steinberg & Associates has fought for injured workers across Berks County and helped them recover everything they are owed.
Pennsylvania workers’ compensation covers almost every worker hurt on the job in Muhlenberg Township, no matter who caused the accident. If you were injured at work, your employer’s insurance must pay for your medical treatment and replace part of your lost wages while you recover. You do not have to prove anyone was at fault, and you cannot be denied benefits simply because the accident was your own mistake.
Benefits include all reasonable and necessary medical care, wage loss benefits equal to about two-thirds of your average weekly wage, specific loss benefits for the permanent loss or loss of use of a body part, and death benefits for the families of workers killed on the job. In many cases you can also resolve your claim through a lump-sum settlement, and our attorneys can weigh whether a settlement or ongoing benefits makes more sense for your situation. When insurers delay, dispute, or cut off those benefits, our attorneys step in to protect them.
Muhlenberg Township sits just north of Reading along the Route 61 and Route 222 corridors, one of Berks County’s busiest commercial and industrial areas. Workers in the retail centers and big-box stores along the Fifth Street Highway face slips, falls, burns, and lifting injuries, and the township’s many restaurants and service businesses add everyday hazards that can still cause serious harm.
Muhlenberg’s heavy concentration of warehousing, distribution, and manufacturing keeps thousands of workers on forklifts, loading docks, and production lines where serious injuries are common, often under demanding quotas. Construction and skilled-trade crews across the township face falls, struck-by injuries, and equipment accidents, and healthcare workers at nearby Reading-area facilities carry the physical strain of patient care. Wherever the injury happens, workers’ compensation is meant to cover the treatment and recovery.
We represent Muhlenberg Township workers hurt in every kind of workplace accident, including the following.
Falls from ladders, scaffolds, and wet or uneven floors cause some of the most serious workplace injuries.
Falls, struck-by injuries, and equipment accidents on residential and commercial job sites.
Thermal, chemical, and electrical burns from industrial equipment, hot surfaces, and hazardous materials.
Carpal tunnel, tendonitis, and back injuries that build up from repeated motion and heavy lifting.
Illnesses caused by on-the-job exposure to chemicals, dust, fumes, and other hazards.
We fight back when an insurer wrongly denies, delays, or cuts off the benefits you are owed.
What you do in the first days after a workplace injury has a direct effect on your claim. These steps protect both your health and your right to benefits.
If your claim is disputed, denied, or terminated, a Pennsylvania workers’ compensation judge decides the case. Hearings are generally held near where you live, so Berks County work injury cases are heard at the state’s Reading Workers’ Compensation Office of Adjudication in the Reading State Office Building at 625 Cherry Street. Our attorneys handle workers’ comp hearings at every stage, from the first filing through appeal.
Workers’ compensation does not pay for pain and suffering. Many work injuries, though, are caused by someone other than your employer, such as a property owner, a general contractor, or the maker of defective equipment. When a third party’s carelessness played a role in your injury, you can bring a separate personal injury claim against that party on top of your workers’ comp claim. Our attorneys review every case for that possibility so no source of compensation is missed.
Some employers label workers as independent contractors to avoid paying for workers’ compensation. In Pennsylvania, that label does not automatically remove your right to benefits. The law looks at how the work was actually controlled and performed. Our attorneys challenge improper classifications that try to deny injured workers the coverage they have earned.
Pennsylvania sets firm deadlines, and missing even one can end your right to compensation. Three separate clocks matter in every case.
Because these deadlines move quickly, the safest step is to speak with a lawyer soon after your injury. You can review the state’s official program through the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, then reach out to our office for guidance.
For more than three decades, Mike Lerner and Ben Steinberg have handled workers’ compensation and injury cases for people across Berks County, and they work on every case personally. You deal directly with an attorney, never a case file. They know how insurers try to shortchange injured workers, and they push back for the full medical care and wage loss benefits Pennsylvania law allows.
We pursue every avenue of recovery, including workers’ comp and third-party claims, and we work on a contingency basis, so you owe no fee unless we win. If you were hurt on the job in Muhlenberg Township, contact our office for a free consultation and an honest review of your claim.
