Pennsylvania Supreme Court Narrows Scope Of Governmental Immunity Under The Motor Vehicle Liability Exception

Recently, in Balentine v. Chester Water Authority, et. al. the Pennsylvania Supreme Court addressed whether the motor vehicle liability exception to governmental immunity in Pennsylvania allows an individual to sue a local agency where the individual is injured as a result of the local agency’s… read more

When Should I Contact a Car Accident Attorney?

If you’ve been involved in a car accident, the right time to call an attorney is immediately after the accident. The reason you want to call an attorney right away is, that attorney is going to be able to help you in dealing with both… read more

What Should I Look for When Hiring a Personal Injury Attorney?

What you should look for when hiring a Philadelphia personal injury attorney, I think first and foremost, is a recommendation or referral. That’s and old-fashioned way of doing things and it used to be when somebody needed an attorney, they asked a friend, a co-worker,… read more

What Should I Expect from My First Consultation?

The first thing you should expect, is that we’re going to take a look at your documents and we are going to explain everything to you, because oftentimes, our clients come in and they’ve gotten documents from a workers’ compensation insurance company, and they don’t… read more

What Should I Do if I’ve Been Injured from a Slip and Fall?

If you’ve been involved in a slip-and-fall injury, the first thing you want to do, assuming you are not in need of emergency medical treatment (in other words, you don’t need to be rushed to the emergency room), is take pictures of where you fell… read more

What Should I Do if I’ve Been Injured from a Car Accident?

If you’ve been involved in a car accident, the first thing you want to do is contact the police and make sure that you wait at the scene of the accident, and that the police come out to the scene of the accident. The reason… read more

What Makes Zavodnick & Lasky Personal Injury Lawyers Different from Other Firms?

I think what differentiates our firm from the other law firms in Philadelphia who handle accident cases and injury cases is that we’re a family firm. We were started by Howard Zavodnick and his wife, Sandra Zavodnick. My wife, Jamie Zavodnick-Lasky, used to work here…. read more

What Should I Do if I’ve Been Injured at Work?

If you’ve been injured at work, there’s a couple of things that are very important to remember to do and we always advise our clients to immediately report your work injury to your employer. One, it’s very important because the law requires that you report your… read more

How Long Does it Take for a Claim to Be Accepted?

So another question we get a lot from our clients that have been injured at work is “how long will it take for the insurance company to accept my claim?” and the reality of that is there are laws of what the insurance company has… read more

Why Should I Contact a Workers’ Compensation Attorney in Philadelphia?

The choice of whether or not to contact an experienced workers’ compensation attorney really should be an easy one and that’s because we don’t take a fee from your benefits unless we get you some benefits unless we have to go to court and fight… read more