Anthony Natale III devotes his practice to Pennsylvania workers' compensation, federal longshore and harbor workers' compensation, federal employment discrimination--American with Disabilities Act, and negligence law. Since becoming a member of the firm's Workers' Compensation Department in 1995, Anthony has focused on high-exposure, complex litigation including repetitive trauma claims, occupational disease and hearing loss claims, as well as chemical sensitivity claims. A majority of his practice is at the state level, but he frequently handles federal workers' compensation claims as well. Anthony has handled approximately 3,400 workers' compensation matters. He has taken approximately 1,700 workers' compensation cases to decision, obtaining 1,360 defense verdicts. All settled cases have been below the settlement demands. Anthony has represented law firms and banks, forging companies and steel mills, transportation companies, and aeronautical/space manufacturers, as well as small business owners in various types of workers' compensation matters. He has handled multiple high-exposure workers' compensation chemical claims and toxic tort claims involving mass defendants and has had a high success rate in having his clients dismissed from same. In one of his more interesting cases, Anthony successfully argued that viewing the 9-11 terrorist events and suffering a psychological condition did NOT rise to the degree of a work injury under Pennsylvania law. Through the use of medical experts, vocational experts, life care-planning experts, and Medicare experts, Anthony has successfully settled a volume of paraplegic cases at values significantly less than the settlement demands. Anthony created the Marshall, Dennehey in-house workers' compensation CLE program in 2004 and has been running it since. He frequently lectures to various insurance companies and self-insured employers in the areas of workers' compensation and employment law. Anthony is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania. After his graduation from college, he attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he achieved his Juris Doctorate in 1991. While at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Anthony clerked for the law firm of Henderson & Goldberg, P.C., concentrating in toxic tort litigation. Following graduation, he continued in the field of toxic tort litigation until 1992, when he became associated with Cipriani & Werner, P.C., representing insurance companies and self-insured employers in all aspects of employment law, including workers' compensation. For the past four years, Anthony has volunteered as a Youth Soccer Coach at the YMCA. He has been a travel soccer coach for the past three years at Glenmore/Eagle Youth Association, and he has also coached girls' soccer at the CYO for one year. Significant Representative Matters: · Successfully defeated and/or resolved at base value over 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. 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 Magazine, Summer 2011 Articles in Defense Digest and the Pennsylvania Self-Insurer's Association's publications. Classes/Seminars Taught: 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 Professional Associations and Memberships: Pennsylvania Bar Association Philadelphia Bar Association |