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Peter D. Corti Law Group, PC. I've been practicing law for 49 years, focusing on workers’ compensation in the Chicago area and the state of Illinois. If you have questions about workers' comp, the odds are that you will find answers here, in both our Ask an Attorney section and Blog, using the menus on the right. If you want to learn about recent Illinois workers' comp cases, there are many examples we analyze. There are many topics to cover and endless varieties of controversial cases in Illinois workers' compensation law.
Apr 29, 2016 | Case Law News, Illinois Workers' Comp Info
One of the most difficult workers’ comp cases is the “mental-mental” case, in which an injured worker sustains psychological injuries as a result of non-physical work-related factors, as discussed in a prior post (“Mental-Mental Injuries”). A recently... 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 4, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
In Illinois workers’ compensation, no two cases are exactly the same. However, when two cases have similar elements and different outcomes—one a winner for the injured worker, the other a loser—it is always interesting to study the differences between them. ... 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... Mar 10, 2016 | Illinois Workers' Comp Info
Today, I had the opportunity to respond to a question of a prospective client regarding his amputated finger suffered in a work injury. He wondered if he would receive an offer of some kind, eventually. The answer is the workers’ compensation insurance company... 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... 
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