Coming on the heels of last month’s announcement from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, advising that two new Workers’ Compensation Judges (WCJs) would be taking the bench, we were surprised to hear more hiring news from the Bureau this month. In addition to the two new WCJs we discussed in March (The Honorable Debra Matherne and The Honorable Cassi Martin), there are now two more WCJs taking the bench in the near future.
Having two announcements so close in time is unusual, though there has been an unusual amount of retirement and turnover among the WCJs recently. We are now welcoming Angela Lorenz and Angel Torres to the bench.
The official statement released by the Bureau states: