Garrett, Jane P.

Vincent J. Quatrini, Jr. is a founding partner at the firm and serves as managing partner. He concentrates his practice in the area of workers' compensation, and the representation of injured workers, exclusively.

Mr. Quatrini has more than 30 years of experience in state and federal courts and has served as counsel in prominent local cases. He is a member of the Westmoreland County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, the Westmoreland County Academy of Trial Lawyers, and is past president of the Westmoreland Bar Association (1988-1989). While on the Westmoreland County Bar Association's board of directors, Mr. Quatrini played an active part in securing and financing the first permanent headquarters in the Association's hundred-year history. Since 1984, he has been a member of the executive committee of the Workers' Compensation Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and served as chair of the Section from 1989 - 1990.

In Pawlosky v. WCAB (Latrobe Brewing Co.), one of the most widely cited cases in the Commonwealth, Mr. Quatrini convinced the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to dramatically redefine the term "injury" under the Workers' Compensation Act to include any disease that constitutes an insult to the body as well as any work-related aggravation of a non-occupational disease. Mr. Quatrini also successfully argued to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Gilliland v. Heckler that the administrative law judge must give considerable weight to the opinions of a treating physician in a social security disability case.   In 2002, in the case of McIlvaine v. WCAB (States), Mr. Quatrini persuaded the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that if a truck driver is injured while passing through Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act will cover that injury, and it does not matter where a truck driver lives or where a truck driver was hired.  As a result of this decision, any individual who is hurt while working in Pennsylvania will have the protection of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act.

Mr. Quatrini serves on the Workers' Compensation Rules Committee, a position appointed by the Secretary of Labor and Industry. When the Workers' Compensation Act was amended in 1996, Mr. Quatrini was selected by the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers to lecture to its members on the effects of the new legislation.

Mr. Quatrini served as Westmoreland County Assistant District Attorney from 1974 to 1980. He also served as Solicitor for the Westmoreland County Controller.

Mr. Quatrini is a former chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Conference of County Bar Leaders, which provides training and programming for bar association presidents of the 67 Pennsylvania counties. Mr. Quatrini has served on numerous boards of local non-profit agencies, including the Westmoreland County March of Dimes, where he served as chair and vice president, WESTCO credit union, Westmoreland Bar Foundation as well as the Center Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. He currently sits on the boards of Adelphoi, Inc., Adelphoi Village, Adelphoi USA, and the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County. Mr. Quatrini is a founder and founding Chair of the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County, a philanthropic vehicle designed to provide all individuals, despite their economic status, with the opportunity to be a philanthropist and to positively impact the lives of members of our community.

Mr. Quatrini is one of a statewide team of attorneys who co-authors (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and the volume for release in 2004) the publication, Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure. The teaching group, which lectures to over 1,000 workers' compensation attorneys in Pennsylvania, won the prestigious Award of Outstanding Achievement from the International Association for Continuing Legal Education in 2000 and 2002. Mr. Quatrini recently launched a new series of lectures entitled, "Medicine for Lawyers." Mr. Quatrini moderates a panel of physicians and attorneys who lecture to attorneys all over the Pennsylvania on medical topics. His presentations have included: Chronic Pain, Orthopedics, Mild to Moderate Brain Damage, and Analyzing Medical Records.

Mr. Quatrini is listed in the 1997-1998 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, where he was named one of the best American lawyers in workers' compensation.

Mr. Quatrini received his B.A. from St. Vincent College in 1971 and his doctorate of law from Duquesne University in 1974. He is a lifelong resident of the Latrobe-Greensburg area and is married to Patricia Cecchini, of New Alexandria, and has two sons, Michael and Adam.

Some of Mr. Quatrini's presentations on workers' compensation rights are: The National Business Institute, The Industry for Workers' Compensation Reform, the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Industrial Conference, and The Pennsylvania Self-Insurers Association. Mr. Quatrini also participated in a seminar regarding Ethics in Rehabilitation.