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Vincent J. Quatrini Jr. is a founder and managing partner of Quatrini Rafferty, P.C., Pennsylvania. Focusing primarily in personal injury, he handles the firm's workers' compensation claims and advocates for injured workers throughout Pennsylvania.
Mr. Quatrini has more than 30 years of experience in personal injury. He has been named one of The Best Lawyers in America in Workers' Compensation. He has also been selected by his peers as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for each year since 2004.
As a well-known leader and active member of his community, Mr. Quatrini has given several lectures on workers' compensation, and is one of the co-authors of the annual Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure publications. He is a member of the Westmoreland County and Pennsylvania bar associations, where he has held several leadership positions. He is also an active member of the Westmoreland County Academy of Trial Lawyers and serves on the Workers' Compensation Rules Committee.
About Vincent Quatrini, Jr.
Law School: Duquesne University School of Law
Admitted: 1974, Pennsylvania
Professional Webpage: www.qrglaw.com/Attorneys/Vincent-J-Quatrini-jr.shtml
Honors and Awards:
- Listed in the 1997-1998 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, where he was Named One of the Best American Lawyers in Workers' Compensation
- Prestigious Award of Outstanding Achievement, 2000 - 2002
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Member, Executive Committee of the Workers' Compensation Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Chair of the Section from 1989 - 1990
- Former Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Conference of County Bar Leaders
- Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Workers' Compensation Law Section Member, Executive Committee, Chair, 1989-1990
- Member, Hundred-Year History Association
- Solicitor for the Westmoreland County Controller
- Westmoreland County Assistant District Attorney from 1974 to 1980
- Appointee, Workers' Compensation Rules Committee
- Member, Westmoreland County Bar Association, President 1988-1989
- Member, Westmoreland County Academy of Trial Lawyers
Pro bono/Community Service:
- Served, WESTCO Credit Union
- Served, Westmoreland County March of Dimes, Former Chair and Vice President
- Staunton Farms Foundation Board Member
- Adelphoi, Inc., Adelphoi Village and Adelphoi USA Former Board Member
- Founder and founding Chair of the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County
- Served, Center Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
- Served, Westmoreland Bar Foundation
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Mr. Quatrini is one of a Statewide team of Attorneys who Co-Authors (1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and the volume for release in 2004) the publication, Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure
- Lecturer, "Medicine for Lawyers" Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2003 - 2006
- Worker's Compensation Practice and Procedure, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 1992 - 2006
- Workers' Compensation Rights, The Pennsylvania Self-Insurers Association Ethics in Rehabilitation
- Workers' Compensation Rights, The Indiana University of Pennsylvania Industrial Conference
- Workers' Compensation Rights, The Industry for Workers' Compensation Reform
- Workers' Compensation Rights, The National Business Institute
- Lecturer, Analyzing Medical Records
- Lecturer, Mild to Moderate Brain Damage
- Lecturer, Orthopedics
- Lecturer, Chronic Pain
Verdicts and Settlements:
- Successfully argued to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Gilliland v. Heckler that the administrative law judge must give considerable weight to the opinions of a treating physician in a social security disability case
- Pawlosky v. WCAB (Latrobe Brewing Co.) convinced the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to dramatically redefine the term "injury" under the Workers' Compensation Act to include any disease that constitutes an insult to the body as well as any work-related aggravation of a non-occupational disease
Representative Clients:
- Injured Workers
- Coleman v. WCAB, 842 A.2d 349 (Pennsylvania 2004)
- McIlvaine v. WCAB, 810 A.2d 1280 (PA Supreme 2002)
- Gilliand v. Heckler, 786 F.2d 178 (3rd Circuit 1986)
- Pawlosky v. WCAB, 514 PA 450 (PA Supreme 1987)
Educational Background:
- St. Vincent College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1971
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