Claimant Attorney Wants Dignity for Injured

Workers' Compensation applicants often must suffer insult along with injury, says Todd O'Malley, an applicant attorney and founding partner at O'Malley & Langan in Pennsylvania. The law firm, founded in 1990, bills itself as "The voice of the working man." "We have a firm with 10 lawyers, and the average lawyer in the firm carries approximately 125 open cases," O'Malley says. The cases he represents range from amputations in the meat-packing industry to carpal tunnel syndrome cases in an office environment. What irks the 60-year-old O'Malley most when pursuing a case, though, is...