Marzzacco Niven & Associates

Katherine Niven was chosen by Governor Casey's office in 1990 to be the Chief Counsel for the Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers' Compensation. This meant that she was the top government lawyer in Pennsylvania for workers' compensation and oversaw the enforcement of the workers' compensation laws. Among many other things, she brought criminal actions against insurance companies that had not carried workers' compensation insurance. She was successful in many enforcement actions. She also drafted legislation for the Secretary of Labor to better protect workers who were injured in Pennsylvania. Subsequently, she became a Pennsylvania workers' compensation judge where she served in Lebanon and Cumberland counties and also sat in Dauphin County. She presided over thousands of hearings and wrote many decisions. She learned what it takes to be an effective advocate for a workers' compensation client and how to strategize so that a case is successful and the judge is convinced to rule in a worker's favor. Ms. Niven would like to put that experience to work for you. After being a judge for several years, she was motivated to start a law firm that would provide excellent quality service to clients who had been injured on the job or who were unable to work because of either mental or physical problems and needed Social Security Disability benefits.