Claudio J. DiPaolo

Claudio J. DiPaolo, Chair of Rawle & Henderson’s Workers’ Compensation Section, has practiced employment law and insurance defense litigation for over 15 years, with a concentration in workers’ compensation matters. He has defended workers’ compensation claims on behalf of self-insured corporations, insurance carriers, and various political entities.

Mr. DiPaolo has counseled clients on a broad range of employment issues in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York regarding compliance with federal, state, and local laws, and reducing workers’ compensation liability for workplace injuries. He has also handled a wide variety of injury based litigation matters, including commercial motor vehicle, products liability, premises liability, insurance coverage, and medical malpractice. This experience has enabled him to successfully represent many clients in civil matters involving workers’ compensation liens.   

Mr. DiPaolo began his career with an appointment to the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry as an opinion writer, during which he drafted administrative law decisions involving adjudicated workers’ compensation matters.  In this capacity, he also assisted in the editing of the treatise, Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation: Practice and Procedure.  He has spoken about workers’ compensation topics to various groups and clients throughout the country, and has written extensively on workers’ compensation law. 

Mr. DiPaolo studied Art History and Political Science at Duquesne University, and earned his J.D. degree from the Delaware campus of the Widener University School of Law.  

Mr. DiPaolo is admitted to practice in the states of Pennsylvania and New York, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

• Workers’ Compensation
• Appellate
• Employment Relations
• Insurance Coverage

• Pennsylvania
• New York

Widener University School of Law (J.D., 1993)
Duquesne University (B.A., 1989)
Istituto Dante Alighieri Roma (Italian Ministry of Education Language
Diploma, 1988)

American Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association
New York Bar Association
Pennsylvania Defense Institute

• Rawle’s Reports, Volume 15, Number 8