PITTSBURGH-(PNC NEWS)–In workplace injury cases in the United States, there is a zero degree of separation between corporate investigation, prosecution and judging systems. In other words, a manager, employer’s benefits, and Human Resources offices often exercise the combined functions of rule making, investigation, prosecution, and adjudication.
In Lilia Odhner’s case all those functions were performed by just two persons, Sonya Edwards, PNC Bank Doylestown Branch manager, and Valerie Walton-Singer, a PNC Bank Human Resources Specialist, whose services to PNC bank focus primarily on the issues with EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) (James H. Hurst, Jr v. PNC Bank, Et Al. US District Court Eastern Pennsylvania No. 02-6733, 2004). Lilia Odhner was employed by Pittsburgh based PNC Bank in its Doylestown branch, Pennsylvania, as a Customer Service Representative on September 28, 2006 when Lilia suffered a traumatic brain injury at her workplace and became permanently disabled. Her employment was terminated by PNC Bank after 90 days of Lilia’s disability for allegedly “abandoning her work.” Her Workers’ Compensation insurance coverage was denied. As it follows from the PNC Financial Group Disability Benefits package, Sonya Edwards and Valerie Walton-Singer were the primarily contacts between Lilia Odhner and PNC bank after Lilia’s injury.
In Workmen’s Compensation cases, insurance companies and insured entities utilize the following tactics towards injured people.
I) In court hearings and other legal procedures for injured employees, appointed administrative law judges (ALJ) similar to military tribunals are being used;
II) Suspension of Due process;
III) Suspension of Habeas Corpus is open and undisputable;
IV) Suspension of presumption of innocence;
V) Suspension of Civil Rights of injured workers during the pretrial and trial periods;
VI) Medical and psychological supervision are essential elements of this decision-making process;
VII) Medical and psychological torture is being applied with the full knowledge and approval of administrative courts.
What demands the most public interest is the immunity from prosecution provided by the Workers’ Compensation Act. The States Workmen’s Compensation Acts bar common law recovery against an insured employer by or on behalf of an employee for negligent injury or wrongful death, even if an injured worker is denied compensation. Even more, in 1966 the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act was amended to make explicit the right of a workers’ compensation insurer to the same immunity from an injured employee’s suit for personal injury in the course of his or her employment that the insured employer enjoyed. P.L. 1552 of January 25, 1966, 77 P.S. 501. Provided that the workers’ compensation designated medical providers do enjoy same immunity.
Here is the bottom line: when Lilia Odhner began her workday on September 28, 2006, she was in good health and also had an exemplary work record with PNC bank. Lilia Odhner suffered a traumatic brain injury while working at PNC bank on September 28, 2006 which left her with a permanent brain injury disability. Though requested in the various Workers Compensation and Disability hearings, PNC refuses to produce the bank surveillance video tapes that would show without a doubt what actually happened on September 28, 2006 when Lilia suffered the traumatic brain injury. Whatever the cause, Lilia is permanently disabled and is not expected to be able to work again.
PNC Bank recognized the seriousness of the injury suffered while Lilia was working at PNC and immediately brought Zurich Insurance Company in to oversee, bully and take total advantage of a brain injured woman who was unable to make competent decisions in the weeks following her injury. There was no advocate for Lilia, protecting her rights while PNC and ‘Zurich‘ were running amok. PNC Bank and Zurich Insurance Company should be forced to produce the bank surveillance video tape that would show what happened on the day of Lilia’s injury and they should be held fully accountable for all the actions that they have taken in the time since Lilia’s injury, and she should be granted the appropriate compensation for someone who was permanently injured at work.
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CONTACT: Lilia Odhner’s Workers’ Compensation Attorney
Patrick Donan, Esq.
Segal, Muller & Donan
Address: Suite 1C-44
2401 Pennsylvania Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19130-3061
Phone: (215) 769-8505
Fax: (215) 763-9520
CONTACT: PNC Bank and Zurich Insurance Company Attorney
Foley & Sherry LLC
117 N Olive St,
Media, PA 19063
Phone: (610) 627-2119
CONTACT: Pennsylvania Department of Labor & Industry
Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board Judge
Commissioner Joseph Hoeffel
Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C.
One South Broad Street
Suite 2100
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215 238-1700
Fax: 215 238-1968
E-mail: jhoeffel@kohnswift.com
CONTACT: WCJ Michael Rosen
Workers’ Compensation
1242 New Rodgers Road, PO BOX 802
Bristol, Pennsylvania 19007
Phone: 215/781-3274
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