JOSEPH C. HUTTEMANN is a partner at Martin Law and has concentrated his practice in the area of workers’ compensation litigation since 1992. Mr. Huttemann was the Chairman of the Workers’ Compensation section of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the leading organization for the protection of injured workers’ rights in the commonwealth. Prior to joining the firm in 1997, Mr. Huttemann defended workers’ compensation claims for insurance carriers and employers. In addition to the litigation of many workers’ compensation claims, he has also written extensively on the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act. The author of “The Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act: An Employer’s Guide” and “Act 57: A Legal Analysis,” he has also written multiple articles published in The Legal Intelligencer. In the Spring of 2013, Mr. Huttemann became a certified specialist in Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation by the PA Bar Association’s Section on Workers’ Compensation Law as authorized by the PA Supreme Court.
Mr. Huttemann has presented lectures on workers’ compensation and Social Security disability to the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and the Bucks County Bar Association. In 2016, Mr. Huttemann won an amazing settlement of $3.2 million for his client who was an automotive technician that became paraplegic after suffering a cervical fracture and arterial dissection from a car accident on his way to a training seminar. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and was the chair of its’ Workers’ Compensation section in 2017.He is an active member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the Bucks County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association. Mr. Huttemann has served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Serenity House, a non-profit, charitably funded hospice care group