The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Lombard, Illinois-based Armor Shield Construction once again for failing to provide the proper safety measures for workers. The most recent incident occured at a site where an investigator noted that the company was not providing workers with adequate safety measures for… Read More

Experts forecast that future workers’ compensation reforms may focus on banning physicians from dispensing prescription drugs to prevent spending for workers’ compensation claims from rising again, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Workers Compensation Research Institute proclaimed in a Business Insurance article on March 29. According to the managing director of casualty claims at Aon Global Risk Consulting in Los… Read More

Two reports recently published by NPR and the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration revealed that on a nationwide scale, insurance companies are the ones earning money whenever workers’ compensation reforms are instituted, the Chicago Sun Times reported on March 10. In fact, after recent reforms implemented in Illinois, earnings of insurance companies have increased… Read More

Two reports recently published by NPR and the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration revealed that on a nationwide scale, insurance companies are the ones earning money whenever workers’ compensation reforms are instituted, the Chicago Sun Times reported on March 10. In fact, after recent reforms implemented in Illinois, earnings of insurance companies have increased… Read More

A new report from the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) expresses concern that the current condition of state-based workers’ compensation programs is insufficient and may even be contributing to the income disparity in the United States, according to the Chicago Tribune. OSHA’s report identifies several contributing factors to this escalating problem. Businesses are… Read More

Illinois state senator Dale Righter (Republican of Mattoon) filed a bill that seeks to add “primary causation” to the Illinois workers’ compensation law in a bid to help the state become attractive to financial investment from the business sector, generate employment opportunities for its residents, and put an end to fraud and abuse, the Daily… Read More

The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act is on its way to witnessing reforms that will seek to address the “shortcomings” of the 2011 amendments, Illinois Governor Bruce Vincent Rauner said during his State of the State Address on February 4, Business Insurance reported. Even though Gov. Rauner did not specify what changes he will make exactly to… Read More

Illinois Governor Bruce Vincent Rauner said in a speech at the University of Chicago late in January that his administration is going to address workers’ compensation reform, high Medicaid costs, and the disparity of the high salaries of public employees in comparison with the private sector. The Springfield State Journal-Register reported Rauner saying that the rate… Read More

Workers from different companies who were called in to repair some damage in the cafeteria of Chute Middle School in Evanston, Illinois received exposure to asbestos, lead, and electrical dangers, a recent report from the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Illinois Department of Public Health showed. OSHA assigned… Read More

In Illinois, when a public officer such as a law enforcement agent, a correctional officer, or a firefighter sustains major injury or was killed in the line of duty, his family – wife and children – can receive, on top of workers’ compensation benefits, compensation allotted to them under the Public Safety Employee Benefits Act,… Read More