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Anthony Natale III

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1845 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
(215) 575-2745
(215) 575-0856 - Fax
apnatale@mdwcg.com

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 staute 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.

Areas of Practice

Published Works

  • "Fee Review Litigation: An Overview," Pennsylvania Self-Insurers' Association newsletter, May 2011

  • "Retirement Does Not Mean Retirement When You are Collecting Workers' Compensation Benefits," The Philadelphia Lawyer, Summer 2011

  • "Ding Dong Kachinski's Dead: Commonwealth Court Declines To Resuscitate," Defense Digest, 2010-09, Vol. 16, No. 3

  • Articles in Defense Digest and the Pennsylvania Self-Insurer's Association's publications

Classes/Seminars Taught

  • Unemployment Claims Fraud: Protect Your Organization from Bogus Jobless Claims, Center for Competitive Management, April 19, 2012 

  • Unemployment Compensation Roundtable, Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, Scranton, Pennsylvania, March 8, 2012; King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, March 16, 2012

  • The Interplay Between the Pennsylvania Heart and Lung Act and the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act, AmeriHealth Casualty webinar, August 25, 2011

  • Top Ten Defenses to a Fee Review Action, Chubb Seminar, April 2011; discussion about the problems associated with provider fraud in fee review applications and a 10-point analysis on how to properly defend these cases

  • Workers' Compensation Primer, Drexel Seminar, March 2011; an analysis on how to defend workers' compensation actions in a university setting

  • Pennsylvania Claims Handling (monthly seminars in PA, NJ and DE), 2002-present

  • Defending Pennsylvania Claims, Boston, 2008

  • Prosecuting Fraud Under New Guides, Texas, 2006

  • Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Law and Claims Handling, Michigan, 2001

  • Case Law Updates to various insurers on monthly basis, 1998-2000

  • Prosecuting Fraud, 1997

  • Pennsylvania Forms Seminar, 1997

  • Act 57 Amendments, 1996

  • How to Defend Hearing Loss Cases, 1994

  • ADA and Workers' Compensation Act, five Pennsylvania cities, 1992

Education

  • University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1991 J.D.

  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1988 B.A.

Articles • June 1, 2011
The Philadelphia Lawyer, Summer 2011, Vol. 74, No. 2
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What's Hot in Worker's Comp • May 1, 2011
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Defense Digest Article • September 1, 2010
Pennsylvania - Workers' Compensation , Key Points: Commonwealth Court decides that a "good faith" follow through on jobs listed in a labor market survey is not detrimental to a modification petition. A job listed in a..., Defense Digest, Vol. 16, No. 3, September 2010
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Areas of Practice

Education

  • University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D., 1991)
  • University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1988)

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania, 1991

Associations & Memberships

  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
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