Paradise Workers' Compensation Lawyers

Since 1991, I have been a trusted and professionally-recognized attorney offering an array of legal services in areas of workers’ compensation, personal injury and consumer bankruptcy. For more than 27 years, my practice has helped clients in the Philadelphia area (Montgomery, Chester, Bucks and Delaware counties) as well as throughout the Commonwealth, obtain justice as well as millions in damages for compensation.

Steve Kunkle graduated from Dartmouth College in 1979 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1982. His primary areas of practice have been in the fields of employment and civil rights litigation, veterans’ benefits, personal injury litigation, and more recently, transactional and employment risk management matters for his business clients. In the employment area, Steve handles a broad range of compensation and benefit matters, long-term disability, pension, retention bonus, and change in control matters, severance agreements, FMLA and other statutory employment claims, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, wage and hour disputes, and discrimination matters.

He represents primarily individuals these days,...

30 years experience representing claimants in workers' compensation and social security disability cases throughout southeastern PA.

MATTHEW TRAPANI devotes his legal career to representing the seriously injured and their families across Pennsylvania.

Attorney Trapani handles a variety of serious personal injury cases including auto and truck accidents, premises liability, liquor liability violations, sexual abuse and wrongful death litigation. Licensed to practice in all of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties, Trapani has litigated against some of the largest insurance companies in the U.S., and effectively negotiated substantial settlements for his clients. Recently, attorney Trapani was inducted into the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum. The forum is a group of attorneys, made up of less than 1% of all lawyers in the...

I graduated from Temple University School of Law in 1992. Since that time, I have practiced solely in the areas of workers' compensation, social security disability, and related state and federal disability law. This was further limited to just Pennsylvania workers’ compensation matters over the last several years. In addition to Pennsylvania licensure, I am also licensed to practice in the state courts of New Jersey, and am admitted to practice in Federal District Courts in both states. On various occasions, I have been a speaker at public information seminars, as well as seminars sponsored by The...

A Fellow of the prestigious American College of Real Estate Lawyers and listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Mr. Schwager maintains an active general business, commercial litigation, and transactional practice with particular emphasis in the areas of real estate, property tax assessment appeals, mortgage foreclosure and creditors' rights, business formation and governance, and business litigation. Mr. Schwager served as the 126th president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and as chair of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He has been named a Super Lawyer each year since 2010, the only real estate practitioner in Northeastern Pennsylvania...

Kaitlin Files is experienced in representing injured workers throughout all of Pennsylvania while primarily based in Philadelphia and Bucks County. She has focused solely on this area of the law since she was in law school. Since graduating law school, Kaitlin Files has been serving injured workers throughout Pennsylvania with proven success. Representing her clients with grit and grace, Kaitlin gives each new case her undivided attention whilst walking you through each step of the process. Kaitlin spent the last six years working at a high volume law firm practicing workers’ compensation. She now runs a small law office continuing...

Attorney Timothy D. Belt is the son of Reverend James and Patricia Belt, and he has resided primarily in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area since 1985. Tim graduated from Lackawanna Trail High School and is a 1996 summa cum laude graduate of the University of the Ozarks. Tim graduated from Villanova University School of Law in 1999 and shortly thereafter began practicing law in the Wilkes-Barre area. Tim’s practice focuses on workers compensation claims. Tim is a frequent speaker in regard to workers compensation issues to business and union organizations. Tim is a member...

Thomas E. Panzer’s practice areas focus on administrative litigation, including zoning and workers’ compensation. Mr. Panzer has represented multiple zoning hearing boards over the past 20 years. He also represents both claimants and defendants in workers’ compensation matters, which has made him a sought-after and frequent lecturer on Pennsylvania workers’ compensation topics.

Mr. Panzer joined High Swartz in 2016 as a result of a merger with McNamara, Bolla & Panzer, Attorneys at Law, a firm for which he served as Managing Partner. Mr. Panzer has been practicing law in southeastern Pennsylvania for nearly 25 years.

In addition to the practice of law,...

Pennsylvania lawyer Joseph Hanyon has 20 years' experience in vehicle accident and personal injury litigation, including all aspects of first party insurance claims, wage and medical benefits, third party claims, under-insured and uninsured motorist's claims and bad faith claims. His experience also includes land use issues, home owner's insurance claims, and construction, general and commercial litigation. Attorney Hanyon has experience in all types of general and commercial litigation, representation of individual purchasers and large builders in the Pocono Mountains, litigation of estates, property damage, breach of contract, bad faith of insurance companies commercial land use, etc. In the area of real estate...

Frank Udinson is a partner with Win Big Law and focuses his practice primarily on Pennsylvania workers’ compensation law, personal injury law, and Veterans Benefits. In the Spring of 2013, Mr. Udinson was accredited by the Veterans’ Administration as an attorney to assist with claims for VA benefits. Prior to founding Win Big Law, Mr. Udinson practiced at one of Pennsylvania’s preeminent workers’ compensation law firms. Initially, after completing law school in 2010, Mr. Udinson worked as an Assistant District Attorney for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, where he prosecuted criminal cases in Municipal Court. Over the years, Mr. Udinson...

Jose has 23 years of experience in areas including personal injury, products liability, medical malpractice, construction site injuries, trucking accidents, nursing home negligence, workers’ compensation, commercial litigation and criminal defense in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He has worked for some of the top law firms in South Jersey where he gained much experience handling complex cases involving catastrophic injuries. He now puts that experience to work for clients of the Kotlar, Hernandez & Cohen, LLC .

Jose has also devoted his time and experience to public appointments. He served as a municipal court public defender for 7 years and 4 years...

Brian A. Coverdale has been working with the firm since 2010 and is a partner with the firm, practicing in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

A staunch advocate of his client's rights, Brian is prepared to represent his client's interests to the maximum extent possible. Brian takes a customized approach to handling all of his cases and formulates a targeted legal strategy to fit each client's individual needs. With his divorce and family law clients, Brian takes a pragmatic approach to help his clients reach the best result possible, without paying unnecessary legal fees. By way of this approach, Brian ensures...

Dina Brilliant graduated from Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana with a BS in Business and a minor in psychology. Ms. Brilliant then obtained her Law degree at Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville, KY. Since graduating from Law School in 1993, Ms. Brilliant has been practicing in the area of Worker's Compensation. From 1993 through 2000, Ms. Brilliant worked for employers and the insurance carriers gaining valuable knowledge and insight as to how the insurance carriers and employers prepare for, and defend, workers' compensation cases. In 2001, Ms. Brilliant started representing injured workers, utilizing her prior defense experience.

In addition to...

Gary Heslin was born and raised in the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Northeast Catholic High School and recieved his bachelor's degree from LaSalle University. After recieving his law degree from Loyola University in 1977, Gary worked for Judge William Lederer of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and then moved on to practice law in a small general practice law firm in the city of Philadelphia where he concentrated in personal injury law. In 1986, he started a law firm with a law school classmate handling exclusively personal injury, workers compensation and medical malpractice cases. In 1997,...

Tim has more than 20 years of legal experience. His practice focuses on the litigation of workers’ compensation, personal injury and municipal court cases in the state of New Jersey. Now an attorney at the Kotlar, Hernandez & Cohen, LLC, Tim started his career with a large defense litigation firm. From there, he moved on to create the workers’ compensation defense department for Harleysville Insurance. That experience provided him with extensive knowledge of how insurance companies process claims.

Tim also established his own legal practice concentrating on representing injured workers. He developed a great deal of trial experience during his years...

Born and raised in northeastern Pennsylvania, Attorney Comitz grew up in the Heights section of Wilkes-Barre and graduated from G.A.R. Memorial High School. He then attended Juniata College and Widener University Commonwealth Law School (formerly Widener University School of Law) in Harrisburg, PA. In 2003, Attorney Comitz returned to northeastern Pennsylvania to begin his law career. It was very important for Attorney Comitz to return home. His family has long had its roots in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton area, and their stories are likely familiar to many of you. One of his grandfathers was a coal miner, and his other grandfather drove a...

Justin focuses his practice on the litigation of workers’ compensation and personal injury cases in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. His aggressive style and diligent efforts have helped him to recover significant benefits for his clients. Prior to joining the Kotlar, Hernandez & Cohen, LLC , Justin worked in Philadelphia on substantial personal injury and medical malpractice cases. Justin’s exposure to complex civil litigation matters from an early point in his career helped to cultivate and enhance his skills as a trial attorney.

Justin graduated from Rutgers University in 2011 with a dual JD/MBA degree. Justin received his bachelor’s degree in American...

Workers' Compensation and Social Security Disability Lawyer

I have dedicated my practice to helping clients in the areas of workers' compensation, personal injury, family law and divorce, social security disability, and general civil litigation. As the son of a coal miner from a small town, I understand the unique challenges facing many blue collar working families. I have extensive litigation experience, including argument before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court. I have handled hundreds of workers' compensation cases to a favorable outcome, including successfully arguing employee status of a truck driver fatally injured on the job. I have successfully handled hundreds of simple and complex...

Samuel Fishman is the Founding and Lead Partner at the Law Offices of Samuel Fishman, PC. At the Law Offices of Samuel Fishman, Mr. Fishman represents seriously injured people in both state and federal court. Specifically, Mr. Fishman focuses his practice on Personal Injury and Workers' Compensation claimants.

Samuel Fishman received his law degree at Temple University School of Law and is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Brandeis University. He has been successfully representing clients for over fifteen years as a Philadelphia Trial Lawyer and has won tens of millions of dollars for his clients.

Mr. Fishman has developed a multi-lingual...

Jay Solnick earned his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts and a law degree from Temple University School of Law. Jay has extensive experience litigating a wide variety of cases and claims in the state and federal courts of southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The insight and experience gained throughout his career, including the years which he spent handling insurance defense cases, are now utilized to the benefit of his clients in pursuing their personal injury claims. Jay’s practice is focused in the areas of personal injury and insurance claims, including matters involving serious and...

Maximillian J. Muller is a founding member of Muller Brazil and My Vaccine Lawyer. Mr. Muller is an experienced litigator in both Federal and State Courts in the areas of vaccine injury, unsafe drug and medical device injury, personal injury, mass torts, and bad faith. Mr. Muller prides himself on keeping Muller Brazil on the cutting edge of injury litigation and running a client-focused practice. Mr. Muller currently devotes the majority of his law practice to aggressively fighting for the victims of serious injuries. He is a seasoned courtroom litigator and regularly tries cases to verdict. He works closely with some...

Kaufman Workers' Compensation Law is committed to outstanding legal representation of injured workers and exceptional client service. You can count on us to promptly return calls and to answer the questions you have, when you have them. There is nothing more frustrating and anxiety-provoking than leaving message after message for your attorney and wondering what is happening in your case. Our promise is to provide frequent updates and to always respond within 24 hours to your inquiries. Hate to talk on the phone? We will keep in touch via e-mail and our secure on-line client portal.

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After over a decade of legal practice, our firm has established a broad spectrum of expertise to provide you with the best services, no matter what area of law. Our firm will bring world class experience, small town service, and unparalleled advocacy to every client.

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