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...
It seems as though we heard about a workplace violence incident quite frequently in the news. However, there are some forms of workplace violence, such as intimidation, bullying and threats, that are seldom reported.According to federal statistics, between 1992 and...
A man who was diagnosed with mesothelioma had his mesothelioma claim denied by the Illinois Supreme Court. The reason? The diagnosis was made 16 years after the statute of limitations had expired under the Workers' Occupational Diseases Act and the Workers'...
It used to be that when a workers' compensation case was three or more years old, the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission would mark the call sheets in specific manner. A red line was drawn so that the older cases were below the red line and the cases that were...
Statistics show that government efforts to stem the rising tide of workers' compensation payments in Illinois is having some effect, with payments in the state falling below some neighboring states. Workers' compensation had been a major deciding factor in budget...
Being injured on the job is never a good thing. Unfortunately, for many workers, that "not a good thing" is rapidly becoming "a disaster." Think about being out of work with an injury. Your income is reduced. Under the Illinois workers' compensation act, a...
