Joseph Caputo

Joseph M. Caputo is the firms Vice President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is also the Managing Partner of the firms Scranton, PA office. He concentrates his practice in workers compensation defense. Since admission to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1990, Mr. Caputo has limited his practice to the area of Workers Compensation Law and the representation of only insurance carriers, self-Insured employers and third-party administrators. He has practiced before numerous workers compensation judges across the Commonwealth, as well as before the Workers Compensation Appeal Board, Commonwealth Court and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Mr. Caputo has gained substantial expertise in this ever-evolving area of law. He has lectured on various aspects of Pennsylvanias Workers Compensation Law for Lorman Education Systems, National Business Institute and The Philadelphia Insurance Society. He also served as an adjunct faculty member at Marywood College teaching Pennsylvania Workers Compensation Law in the 1997-1998 academic year. Before joining Cipriani & Werner, Mr. Caputo was a shareholder at Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggins Scranton office in the Workers Compensation Department. He has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in 2018 and 2019 in the area of Workers Compensation. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Associations Workers Compensation Section and the Lackawanna County Bar Association. Mr. Caputo received his B. A. in History from the University of Scranton in 1987 and his J. D. from Ohio Northern Universitys Claude W. Pettit College of Law in 1990. He resides in Covington Township PA with his wife, Kathy and his two children, Gianna and Donato.