Neuman, Brandon

Tony devotes his practice to Pennsylvania workers' compensation, unemployment compensation, municipal law/Heart and Lung Act, and federal Longshore and Harbor workers' compensation. Since joining the firm's Workers' Compensation Department in 1995, Tony has focused on high-exposure, complex litigation including repetitive trauma claims, occupational disease and hearing loss claims, as well as chemical sensitivity claims. He also actively represents the National Hockey League and the National Basketball Association in regard to workers' compensation matters.

Tony has represented law firms, financial institutions, forging companies, steel mills, transportation companies, aeronautical/space manufacturers, universities and hospitals in various types of workers' compensation and unemployment compensation matters. He has handled multiple high-exposure workers' compensation chemical and toxic tort claims involving mass defendants, and he has had a high success rate in having clients dismissed from same.

Tony is the founder of Marshall Dennehey's in-house workers' compensation CLE program. He is also frequently called upon to speak to insurance companies and self-insured employers in the areas of workers' compensation and employment law.

Significant Representative Matters:

• Successfully argued that viewing the September 11 terrorist events and suffering a psychological condition did not rise to the degree of a work injury under Pennsylvania law.
  
  
• Refined the interpretation of workers' compensation case law as it relates to the statute of limitations regarding death claims from medication abuse.
  
  
• Successfully defeated and/or resolved at base value more than 400 high-exposure hearing loss cases in western and eastern Pennsylvania.
  
  
• Successfully defended 50 late answer high-exposure claim petitions in eastern and middle Pennsylvania in 2007.
  
  
• Successfully handled multiple heart attack and psychological claims.
  
  
• Successfully handled multiple toxic tort (asbestos, silica) cases