By Sandra Weigel Kokal In follow-up to our prior posting – the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania recently issued its Decision regarding the precedent that professional football players are “seasonal employees” under the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act. In the case of …

As of January 1, 2020, founder and partner Ed Abes has retired after a more than 50-year career practicing law. After graduating from Pennsylvania State University and Duquesne University School of Law in Pittsburgh, Ed began his career working for …

Recently, Abes Baumann participated in an en banc argument before the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania revisiting the precedent that professional football players are “seasonal employees”under the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act. In the case of Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc. v. Workers’ …