A loophole in Illinois’ workers’ compensation system is allegedly being used by Illinois physicians for personal gain. The system allows for a process called ‘physician dispensing’, which allows Illinois doctors to prescribe medicine to injured workers, as well as sell it for profit. When given the right to profit by selling drugs, doctors prescribe 3.2 times the… Read More

The United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has declared that a 21-year-old temporary worker’s fingers might not have been amputated had South Elgin, Illinois-based metal manufacturer Custom Aluminum Products installed proper safety guards to keep workers’ hands out of the metal press’ danger zone. OSHA inspectors investigated an accident after it occurred on Nov.… Read More

In Continental Tire of the Americas, LLC v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, the Fifth Appellate Court ruled that the Commission is not required to make a judgment of a claimant’s supposition of an incident of workplace injury if the only evidence he has at hand is an AMA impairment rating report. The appellate court noted… Read More

Central Management Services director Thomas Tyrell filed a lawsuit on Friday, November 13 in Sangamon County Circuit Court in Illinois against Attorney General Lisa Murray Madigan, claiming that “millions” of dollars have been wrongfully awarded by an Illinois state agency that should pay workers’ compensation benefits to injured workers, but instead has been paying “hundreds”… Read More

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, November 4 in the case of Folta v. Ferro Engineering, which sought to find out whether an employee can bring legal action against an employer outside of the Workers’ Compensation Act and the Occupational Diseases Act when onset of the employee’s injury or disease occurs after the expiration… Read More

Ten lawmakers on key Senate and House of Representatives committees and members of the Democratic Party, including presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, have asked the United States Department of Labor to address a “pattern of detrimental changes in state workers’ compensation laws” that have increasingly limited protections and benefits for injured workers over the past ten… Read More

Ten lawmakers on key Senate and House of Representatives committees and members of the Democratic Party, including presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, have asked the United States Department of Labor to address a “pattern of detrimental changes in state workers’ compensation laws” that have increasingly limited protections and benefits for injured workers over the past ten… Read More

According to a column published in the Chicago Sun-Times on July 20, there is a lot of erroneous rhetoric surrounding the workers’ compensation issue in Illinois. The report outlined several facts, one of which highlighted a national study from Oregon of workers’ compensation systems that placed Illinois with the seventh most expensive insurance costs in the nation. According… Read More

An industry group of insurers spoke against House Bill 1287, a bill that seeks to further workers’ compensation changes through regulation and price control, according to WorkersCompensation.com on July 1. The group consists of the AIA, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, the Illinois Insurance Association, and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America;… Read More

Democrats from the Illinois House of Representatives returned to Springfield with an approved measure aiming to compromise with Republicans calling for workers’ compensation reform, according to the Insurance Journal on June 8. Republicans said the Democrats’ proposal does not go far enough. House Bill 1287 includes a proposal to change the state’s no-fault worker benefit, so… Read More