Feb 21, 2017 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
If you are permanently and totally disabled due to a work injury, and your lawyer is able to demonstrate your inability to find employment, then you have some hope under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act. Let’s take a quick look at a recent case... Dec 19, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
If the insurance company sends you a letter and claims you are required to attend an exam with their doctor, do you have to go? In a word: Yes. Your employer will both select and pay for this doctor to examine you to give an opinion regarding the nature and extent of... Dec 14, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
How long do you have to file a work injury claim in Illinois? The very first requirement, which is limited by time following your injury, is the giving of notice to your employer within 45 days. Sometimes, but not always, employers refuse to take an accident... Dec 8, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
If you’re hurt at work, and instructed not to return to work by a doctor or hospital, when will you get a check from the insurance company? Under the statute, which is called the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act, the insurance company would have 14 days... Dec 1, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
Who will pay your medical expenses if you’re injured on the job? Your employer or its insurance carrier is obligated by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act to pay all medical expenses that are reasonably required to relieve and cure you from the effects... Oct 24, 2016 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
If you slip and fall at work, can you get workers’ comp benefits? The short answer: Yes. The more complete answer: Yes, but it depends on certain key factors. One very important key is the ability to prove the facts that are claimed by the injured worker. The... Oct 13, 2016 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
What happens if you’re attacked on the job? Can you get workers’ compensation benefits? The answer to this question depends on a number of different facts. The aggressor may be someone that the employee is exposed to by reason of the employment: Either... Jul 18, 2016 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
An Illinois workers’ compensation case can be strongly affected by a positive drug test, and for obvious reasons. When a person is under the influence of any drug, performance can be affected in the areas of reaction time, judgment, coordination, vision, and... Jun 7, 2016 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
If you are injured at work through repetitive trauma, or, in other words, the act of repeating some action or actions which lead to physical problems, you may be entitled to benefits under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act. “Repetition is... Apr 28, 2016 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
When you have 45 years of experience handling Illinois work injury and personal injury cases, you have heard about every kind of injury and mechanism of injury possible, and yet, there are always new ways I hear of injuries happening every day. A recent Illinois... Apr 27, 2016 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
In Illinois workers’ compensation, two of the more difficult cases involve slip and fall injuries and/or traveling employee injuries: For a slip and fall case, one key is that you have to be able to prove that the injured worker was exposed to a risk greater than the... Apr 1, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
While almost all city of Chicago workers are covered under the Illinois Worker’s Compensation Act, there are exceptions. City of Chicago employees who are not covered: Police officers Firefighters (Note: Disfigurement is covered, but everything else is not. I... Mar 18, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info, Workers' Compensation News
A construction worker fell 53 stories, struck a moving car, and died in downtown Los Angeles yesterday, as reported by CNN. It was only his second day on the job. Beyond how horrible and tragic such an event must be for the deceased worker’s family and friends, this... Feb 17, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
I have a suspicion about the most common mistake people make after they have Illinois work injuries: They don’t even get one single free consultation with an attorney. That’s right. The reason I cannot prove it is because I believe these people never call me. The... Jan 13, 2016 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
An injured worker’s average weekly wage is one of the most important issues in a workers’ compensation claim. It dictates how much the injured worker will receive for temporary total disability payments (TTD), and what the permanent partial disability... Jan 5, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
In the case of Tommy Oliver v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, Mr. Oliver was working as a pile driver for Rausch Construction on July 19, 2011 at a work site located at Belmont Harbor, which is on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois. He stated... Dec 11, 2015 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
In the case of Bolingbrook Police Department v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, a police officer named Michael Toles injured his back on February 17, 2009, while lifting his duty bag from a location at his personal residence into his personal vehicle, prior... Oct 19, 2015 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
You can find a lot of information and advice on what TO do. This post will focus on what NOT to do, and some of the reasons why. 1.) DO NOT work through the pain instead of reporting it right away. If you do this, at least a few main problems are created down the... Oct 5, 2015 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
The Illinois Worker’s Compensation Act provides, under section 1(a)4, that employers may borrow or loan employees. Most of the companies that engage in this practice operate as staffing companies, or temp services. Some are labor companies, where employees are... Sep 21, 2015 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
On November 19, 2013, an arbitrator filed his decision with the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission in the case of Susan Bidstrup, the injured worker, versus her employer, Northern Illinois University. The arbitrator ruled that on September 4, 2012, the... Jul 27, 2015 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
When an injured employee’s work-related accident results in a permanent disability, the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act allows various options in terms of the benefits available. Depending on the severity of the injury and the consequences thereof, both physical... Jul 20, 2015 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act was enacted to provide a flow of benefits to compensate injured workers for lost wages and the loss of earning capacity in exchange for a bar on certain liabilities of employers. Included in this remedial legislation is a... Jul 14, 2015 | Case Law News, Work Comp Info
This interesting question was raised in the recent case of Jerry DiBenedetto v. City of Chicago, decided by the Appellate Court. After a trial before an arbitrator, Mr. DiBenedetto was awarded a wage differential of $982.67. The Illinois Workers’ Compensation... Jun 30, 2015 | Case Law News, Work Comp Info
The protections of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act are not limited to those injured workers who sustain acute traumatic injuries. The Act also provides compensation to employees if the performance of that person’s job over the course of an extended period... Jun 26, 2015 | Case Law News, Work Comp Info
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act provides some flexibility in terms of the benefits available to compensate an employee for her/his permanent disability. One of these options is referred to as wage differential benefits. An injured worker qualifies for these... Jun 24, 2015 | Case Law News, Work Comp Info
Injured workers can establish entitlement to Permanent Total Disability benefits under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act in one of three ways: (1) medical evidence showing an inability to work; (2) a diligent but unsuccessful job search; or (3) demonstrating... Jun 16, 2015 | Work Comp Info
Pursuant to the law under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act, a workers’ compensation insurance company has the right to request that an injured worker sees a doctor of their choice for an “Independent Medical Exam,” which the injured worker is required to... Jun 12, 2015 | Case Law News, Work Comp Info
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act requires the employer to provide vocational rehabilitation services when an injured worker is unable to return to his/her pre-injury employment and s/he meets certain requirements. Vocational rehabilitation services can include... Jun 10, 2015 | Case Law News, Work Comp Info
The protection provided by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act is not limited to those injured workers who were hurt in Illinois. The Act also states that if an employee’s job is based outside the State of Illinois, s/he may still be eligible for Illinois workers’... Jun 5, 2015 | Workers' Compensation News
This bill has been recently amended. In essence, the amendments seek to hold the insurance industry’s feet to the fire with regard to excess profits not being passed on to policyholders. A synopsis of this bill’s latest amendment follows: Amends the Illinois... May 21, 2015 | Workers' Compensation News
Late yesterday afternoon, an organization which is near and dear to my heart, the Workers’ Compensation Lawyers Association, sent an email to all of its members, alerting us to contact our State Representatives and to tell them that we oppose further changes to the... May 14, 2015 | Work Comp Info
A workers’ compensation insurance company, third-party administrator or any other adjusting company in reality has a conflict of interest. Conflict exists because the company has received the premium from an insured employer or paid for a contract from a... May 11, 2015 | Workers' Compensation News
On May 5, 2015, the Illinois House of Representatives convened a hearing that went for some eight hours. Much of the eight hours included testimony and questions of injured workers who had been affected by this Compensation Act, some from the state of Indiana. Except... Apr 13, 2015 | Work Comp Info
The Illinois Worker’s Compensation Commission website is at IWCC.IL.gov. On the website, you will find in a menu, down the left side, that there is a handbook on Workers’ Compensation and Occupational Diseases. It’s in three different languages: English, Spanish and... 
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