The last thing you need after you have suffered a workplace injury is to receive a letter from your employer's insurance company denying your claim for workers' compensation. Workers' compensation is supposed to provide coverage for your medical bills, lost wages and...
We recently discussed the serious nature of on-the-job spinal cord injuries. These aren't the only type of injury that can occur at work that is catastrophic. For many workers, head injuries, being crushed by heavy equipment or items, broken bones or amputations are...
Whether you love your job or you tolerate it, the fact is that you need it. Your paycheck covers your mortgage or rent, buys groceries, and allows you to afford the many things you and your family need throughout the week. If you lost your income, it would not take...
An office may not seem like the most dangerous place to work. While offices are generally safer than construction sites, office injuries still happen and they are more common than you might think. If you work in an office, you might be sitting at a desk most of the...
In Illinois, if you own a business and have even a single employee, you are required to have workers' compensation insurance. However, the high cost of workers' comp coverage results in some small-business owners not purchasing coverage.That's unwise. Businesses face...
How do you feel about sharing your Illinois workspace with a robot? Does it threaten your safety and job security? Until recently, most industrial robots had massive automated arms for jobs like painting, assembly or welding, and they were in the confines of cages...
Like many in Illinois, you likely spent most of your life waking up to the sound of an alarm clock. Lately, you may have programmed a louder sound into the alarm on your mobile device, or maybe you are one of those people for whom the birds outside your window are...
Illinois is home to various manufacturing companies where assembly line work is a mainstay of production. Perhaps you work at the very same company your parents or grandparents worked at years ago. Overall, you've been quite satisfied with your job. It is steady...
When Illinois workers experience an injury at work, they know that they could have a valid claim to workers' compensation benefits. However, you could have a claim to this type of financial support if your work made you sick. Just as workplace injuries can be valid...
When you think of on-the-job injuries, you may think of the catastrophic injuries suffered by a construction worker who falls from scaffolding or the logger who mishandles a saw. Your aches and pains may not seem so severe compared to those. While it may be true that...
