Attorney Profile

Vincent J. Quatrini Jr. 
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Founding Partner
Managing Partner
phone (724) 837-0080 (Firm)
(724) 552-2700 (Direct)
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Vincent J. Quatrini, Jr. is a founding partner at the firm and serves as managing partner. He concentrates his practice in the area of workers' compensation, and the representation of injured workers, exclusively.

Mr. Quatrini has more than 30 years of experience in state and federal courts and has served as counsel in prominent local cases. He is a member of the Westmoreland County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, the Westmoreland County Academy of Trial Lawyers, and is past president of the Westmoreland Bar Association (1988-1989). While on the Westmoreland County Bar Association's board of directors, Mr. Quatrini played an active part in securing and financing the first permanent headquarters in the Association's hundred-year history. Since 1984, he has been a member of the executive committee of the Workers' Compensation Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and served as chair of the Section from 1989 - 1990.

In Pawlosky v. WCAB (Latrobe Brewing Co.), one of the most widely cited cases in the Commonwealth, Mr. Quatrini 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. Mr. Quatrini also 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.   In 2002, in the case of McIlvaine v. WCAB (States), Mr. Quatrini persuaded the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that if a truck driver is injured while passing through Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act will cover that injury, and it does not matter where a truck driver lives or where a truck driver was hired.  As a result of this decision, any individual who is hurt while working in Pennsylvania will have the protection of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act.

Mr. Quatrini serves on the Workers' Compensation Rules Committee, a position appointed by the Secretary of Labor and Industry. When the Workers' Compensation Act was amended in 1996, Mr. Quatrini was selected by the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers to lecture to its members on the effects of the new legislation.

Mr. Quatrini served as Westmoreland County Assistant District Attorney from 1974 to 1980. He also served as Solicitor for the Westmoreland County Controller.

Mr. Quatrini is a former chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Conference of County Bar Leaders, which provides training and programming for bar association presidents of the 67 Pennsylvania counties. Mr. Quatrini has served on numerous boards of local non-profit agencies, including the Westmoreland County March of Dimes, where he served as chair and vice president, WESTCO credit union, Westmoreland Bar Foundation as well as the Center Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. He currently sits on the boards of Adelphoi, Inc., Adelphoi Village, Adelphoi USA, and the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County. Mr. Quatrini is a founder and founding Chair of the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County, a philanthropic vehicle designed to provide all individuals, despite their economic status, with the opportunity to be a philanthropist and to positively impact the lives of members of our community.

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. The teaching group, which lectures to over 1,000 workers' compensation attorneys in Pennsylvania, won the prestigious Award of Outstanding Achievement from the International Association for Continuing Legal Education in 2000 and 2002. Mr. Quatrini recently launched a new series of lectures entitled, "Medicine for Lawyers." Mr. Quatrini moderates a panel of physicians and attorneys who lecture to attorneys all over the Pennsylvania on medical topics. His presentations have included: Chronic Pain, Orthopedics, Mild to Moderate Brain Damage, and Analyzing Medical Records.

Mr. Quatrini is 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.

Mr. Quatrini received his B.A. from St. Vincent College in 1971 and his doctorate of law from Duquesne University in 1974. He is a lifelong resident of the Latrobe-Greensburg area and is married to Patricia Cecchini, of New Alexandria, and has two sons, Michael and Adam.

Some of Mr. Quatrini's presentations on workers' compensation rights are: The National Business Institute, The Industry for Workers' Compensation Reform, the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Industrial Conference, and The Pennsylvania Self-Insurers Association. Mr. Quatrini also participated in a seminar regarding Ethics in Rehabilitation.

Areas of Practice:
Workers' Compensation Law
Litigation Percentage:
90% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Bar Admissions:
Pennsylvania, 1974
U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania, 1975
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1984
U.S. Supreme Court, 1977
Education:
Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1974
J.D.


St. Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, USA, 1971
B.A.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude


Published Works:
One of a Statewide Team of Attorneys (Co-Author), Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure, 1992


One of a Statewide Team of Attorneys (Co-Author), Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure, 1994


One of a Statewide Team of Attorneys (Co-Author), Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure, 1996


One of a Statewide Team of Attorneys (Co-Author), Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure, 1998


One of a Statewide Team of Attorneys (Co-Author), Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure, 2000


One of a Statewide Team of Attorneys (Co-Author), Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure, 2002


One of a Statewide Team of Attorneys (Co-Author), Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure, 2004


Representative Cases:
Pawlosky v. WCAB, 514 PA 450 (PA Supreme 1987)
Gilliand v. Heckler, 786 F.2d 178 (3rd Circuit 1986)
McIlvaine v. WCAB, 810 A.2d 1280 (PA Supreme 2002)
Coleman v. WCAB, 842 A.2d 349 (Pennsylvania 2004)
Representative Clients:
Injured Workers
References:
WorkersComp Rx
Commercial National Bank
Classes/Seminars Taught:
Lecturer, "Medicine for Lawyers"


Lecturer, Chronic Pain


Lecturer, Orthopedics


Lecturer, Mild to Moderate Brain Damage


Lecturer, Analyzing Medical Records


Workers' Compensation Rights, The National Business Institute


Workers' Compensation Rights, The Industry for Workers' Compensation Reform


Workers' Compensation Rights, The Indiana University of Pennsylvania Industrial Conference


Workers' Compensation Rights, The Pennsylvania Self-Insurers Association


Ethics in Rehabilitation


Worker's Compensation Practice and Procedure, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 1992 - 2006


Medicine for Lawyers, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 2003 - 2006


Honors and Awards:
Prestigious Award of Outstanding Achievement, 2000 - 2002


The Best Lawyers in America, He was Named one of the Best American Lawyers in Workers' Compensation, 1997 - 1998


Pennsylvania Super Lawyer


Professional Associations and Memberships:
Westmoreland County Bar Association
Member


Pennsylvania Bar Association
Member


Westmoreland County Academy of Trial Lawyers
Member


Westmoreland Bar Association, 1988 - 1989
Past President


Westmoreland County Bar Association
Board of Directors


Hundred-Year History Association


Pennsylvania Bar Association, Workers' Compensation Law Section
Member, Executive Committee


Pennsylvania Bar Association, Workers' Compensation Law Section, 1989 - 1990
Chair


Pennsylvania Bar Association Conference of County Bar Leaders
Chair


Community Foundation of Westmoreland County
Board Member


Community Foundation of Westmoreland County
Founding Chair


Worker's Compensation Rules Committee
Member


Westmoreland County March of Dimes
Former Chair and Vice President


WESTCO Credit Union
Former Board Member


Westmoreland Bar Foundation
Board Member


Center Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
Former Board Member


Adelphoi, Inc., Adelphoi Villiage and Adelphoi USA
Former Board Member


Staunton Farms Foundation
Board Member


Past Employment Positions:
Westmoreland County, Assistant District Attorney, 1975 - 1980


WESTCO Credit Union, Chair


WESTCO Credit Union, Vice President


Westmoreland Bar Foundation, Chair


Westmoreland Bar Foundation, Vice President


Westmoreland County Controller, Solicitor


Ancillary Businesses:
Lecturing on medical-legal issues.
Designing and moderating a series of medical-legal seminars.

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The Greensburg, Pennsylvania Law Firm of Quatrini Rafferty Galloway provides high quality legal services to clients throughout Westmoreland, Allegheny, Indiana, Cambria, Somerset, and Fayette counties, including Belle Vernon, Blairsville, Connellsville, Greensburg, Hempfield, Homer City, Indiana, Irwin, Jeannette, Johnstown, Latrobe, Ligonier, Monroeville, Murrysville, New Kensington, North Huntingdon, Pittsburgh, Saltsburg, Somerset, and Uniontown.