New laws went in to effect the other day that change the way Illinois work injuries are dealt with. Since it’s only been one week for most of the changes, nobody really knows what difference they have made if any.
But according to the rumor mill, at least 11 current Arbitrators are going to lose their jobs. This will certainly change the home court advantage for a while, at least depending on who is appointed to replace them.
It will be really interesting to see what happens, but it could be that the Democrats in Illinois are really selling out their base. What I don’t get is how they expect inexperienced Arbitrators to handle both new cases with new rules (mostly injuries on or after 9-1-11) along with the hundreds of thousands of old ones that are still pending.
Like the current Arbitrators or not, they certainly are best prepared to deal with the old rules. Things are about to go crazy at the Commission it seems.
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