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...
There are many complaints about Illinois workers' compensation insurance programs. They are expensive. They are bureaucratic. They can be confusing to workers and compliance may be difficult for employers. There is fraud, with employees attempting to cheat the...
Some people probably think that slip and fall accidents are trivial and not likely to lead to a workers' compensation claim. After all, everyone has fallen from time to time, and as the song goes, "you get right up, brush yourself off, and start all over again."...
