How To Screw Up Your Illinois Workers' Compensation Case
If you have anything more than a minor injury, handling a case on your own is a terrible idea. This is especially true if your case is disputed in any way. A close 2nd in the bad idea department is shown by a call I just had.
A woman called me for her friend who had torn his rotator cuff on the job in Glenview. I'll talk to anyone for free, any time, about any issue and was happy to talk to her. During the conversation I learned that the case was being disputed over a pre-existing condition and there were other issues such as unpaid wages and a failure to accommodate restrictions.
The caller wasn't asking me normal questions though. She seem more inclined to tell her friend how to handle it himself. I explained what a bad idea was as taking a case to trial is not something you learn on the fly. She finally admitted that she was an attorney herself and was hoping to handle the case for her friend. Problem is that despite all of her experience, she had never actually handled a case before involving a work injury.
It got worse in that she asked my thoughts on sending a nasty letter to the employer. That would be a terrible idea because her friend wants to go back to work someday with this employer and either way, it's the insurance company that controls the case. She hadn't thought of that and almost blew everything for her friend.
We'd like to think that if you come to us for representation, you will get someone on your side that knows what they are doing. There are also a bunch of other really good law workers' compensation law firms in Illinois not affiliated with us in any way. But if your attorney doesn't have a track record to point to, it means they are basically practicing on your case. Even if the attorney is a friend, you should never accept that and quite honestly, a good friend would never do that to you.
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