Mental health is an often overlooked aspect of workers' compensation, yet, with one in five adults experiencing an anxiety disorder on a yearly basis, it remains as one of the top three reasons for workplace absences today.Taking a step back to analyze an otherwise...
When Illinois workers are continually exposed to asbestos on the job, the chances of contracting an asbestos-related disease are high. In fact, mesothelioma is probably the most common form of diseases in this category. Mesothelioma usually appears in three different...
When a worker is hurt and wants to receive workers' compensation benefits, the first question he or she should ask is, "Did the injury happen 'on-the-job?'" In other words, in order for a worker to qualify for workers' compensation benefits, the injury needs to have...
The Mesothelioma Treatment Center at Baylor College of Medicine is recruiting patients who have pleural mesothelioma to carry out clinical trials of an experimental drug named anetumab ravtansine. The trials are intended to compare the efficacy and safety of the drug...
Illinois workers who suffer a serious on-the-job injury that prevents them from being able to perform their job duties will lose out on the wages they need to survive. Workers who are in this kind of precarious situation may not know how they are going to pay for...
After suffering an on-the-job injury, you need to get your benefits. In order to do so, you have to report your accident to your employer. The employer reports the accident to his or her insurance company. What happens, though, if you don't receive your...
The use of medical marijuana is being accepted more and more across the United States. It's a complex issue and is impacting many areas of employment, including drug-free workplace policies, drug testing, hiring policies, Americans with Disability Act compliance and...
When you're injured at work, you expect to be covered by workers' compensation insurance. This coverage is supposed to provide injured workers with medical care, wage replacement, temporary and permanent disability earnings and more. If your workers' compensation case...
Many of the settlement contracts the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission receives have errors. When this occurs, the settlement contracts are returned to the worker. With over 40,000 settlement contracts sent into the IWCC each year, there is simply not enough...
If you are not familiar with the Illinois On-Site Safety and Health Consultation service, it allows employers who have 250 employees or fewer on-site or 500 employees total to receive a full-service survey on safety and health issues. The survey can be comprehensive...
