Here’s a good one to know. When you are a traveling employee in Illinois, if your employer can “reasonably forsee” that you might do an activity, if you get hurt while doing that you have a case. What does “reasonably forsee” mean? It’s been pretty broadly interpreted to mean that most injuries you have while … Continue Reading
Of all the things true about Illinois work injury law, the truest is that no matter how nice the insurance company is acting or how obvious your case is, if the insurance company can come up with any reason to deny your benefits, they will. And when I say any reason, it’s often a ridiculous … Continue Reading
There’s a long held standard in Illinois workers’ compensation cases that to win your case you have to show your job put you at an increased risk of injury as compared to the general public. In other words, if you were hurt doing something that you could have been doing anywhere then you don’t have … Continue Reading
Imagine you hurt your back at work lifting a box. You feel a pop and immediate pain which eventually starts shooting down your leg. You do everything the right way. You report the injury to your supervisor. It’s the first accident you’ve ever reported even though you’ve been hurt many times before. You are a … Continue Reading
I LUV to fly Southwest Airlines. Their fares are the best, their staff is the friendliest, they have a ton of options for flights and won’t penalize you if you have to cancel or change. It’s really a great company. We’ve also been involved in many work comp cases against Southwest over the years through … Continue Reading
A caller to my office slipped while making a delivery and badly broke his leg requiring surgery. As you can imagine, he was not able to walk for a while and when he was able to return to work, he was told to do no more than four hours a day. He used to work … Continue Reading
If you read our blog, you know that we love to point out lawyer lies. I have a good one for you. A woman called me, wanting to know if she should settle her case. She was in a car accident as a passenger at work and sustained a big leg injury. All of her … Continue Reading
We are Chicago based work injury attorneys who help with claims throughout Illinois. Please fill out our contact form or call us at (312) 346-5578 to speak with a lawyer for free about your case. Most of us have heard the term traumatic brain injury, or its abbreviation TBI, but what exactly is it? The … Continue Reading
We are experienced Chicago based attorneys who handle work injuries throughout Illinois. If you would like our help please fill out our contact form or call us at 312-346-5578 for a free consultation. United Parcel Service (UPS) is a great company. I get a UPS delivery every week. My delivery guy is always on time, … Continue Reading
I have been a work comp lawyer for over 20 years and pride myself in talking in “plain English.” That said, there’s no way to talk about pneumoconiosis in plain English because that word seems like something the winner of the Scripps Spelling Bee would have to go through. Pneumoconiosis is a lung condition that … Continue Reading
One of the impacts of having a Republican Governor has been the appointment of more conservative, insurance company friendly Arbitrators. I do think most of them look at cases objectively, but it’s just a fact that some are much more favorable to insurance companies than others. In addition, due to some high profile cases, I … Continue Reading
There are some things about Illinois workers’ compensation law that are myth and some that are fact. One that is kind of both is the belief that one person stated to me that the attorney for the insurance company is going to be better than the attorney for the worker. It’s not true in all … Continue Reading
This isn’t our usual Illinois work comp post, but it’s relevant. The Boston Red Sox have a pitcher named David Price who they are paying many millions to pitch for them. He was just diagnosed with what is a somewhat unusual injury for a pitcher, carpal tunnel syndrome. You typically see carpal tunnel in those … Continue Reading
Repetitive motion injuries are some of the most common injuries sustained while on the job. One of those injuries is called Myofascial Pain Syndrome. This can be a very painful muscle condition causing you to be unable to complete everyday tasks. Myofascial Pain Syndrome is caused when trigger points, or sensitive areas of tight muscle … Continue Reading
Typically when you have an accident on the job that causes an injury the best you can hope for is a good workers compensation case. A workers compensation case of course will cover all of your medical expenses, and financial benefits while you are off work recovering from the injury. Usually in cases like this … Continue Reading
At some point, everyone wants to know what their case is worth. But if you are hurt on the job in Illinois you are going to hear terms like PPD or “percentage loss of use” and they can be really confusing. Hopefully we can clear that up a bit. Almost every Illinois work injury has … Continue Reading
We are Illinois work injury attorneys with over 20 years of experience. We are unique in that we are customer service focused, blunt and talk in plain English. We treat our clients like family and through our state wide network of lawyers, we cover all of Illinois. Fill out our contact form or call us … Continue Reading
Via our new online chat system, a reader asked: “Why Would A Case Manager Say My Work Comp File Is Closed?” Can you imagine? You have an accepted Illinois work injury case and one day you call the adjuster or get a letter from them (they never call you, that would take guts) and they … Continue Reading
A recent caller to my office had a recommendation for shoulder surgery after a work related accident. She was upset because the insurance company had approved and then declined her surgery “pending an investigation” and was three weeks late on her TTD payments. She wanted to know how she could solve the problem on her … Continue Reading
Dental workers are getting sick, is their work environment to cause? According to the CDC, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) may be linked to the dentistry field. So if you are a dentist, dental hygenist or other dental worker in Illinois and you have pulmonary fibrosis, you may have a workers’ compensation case. IPF is a … Continue Reading
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission has updated the minimum and maximum benefits rates. The Commission provides these updates twice a year. These benefits rates are the upper and lower limits on the amount a person can receive on a weekly basis if he/she is not able to earn their regular wages because of a work … Continue Reading
We are a Chicago injury law firm that helps people with accidents anywhere in Illinois. We are experienced and fight for our clients for whom we get great results. If you’d like our help fill out our contact form or call us at (312) 346-5578 for a free consultation. In over 20 years of being … Continue Reading
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a really serious problem in our country. While it’s most associated with soldiers coming back from war, the truth is that it occurs in civilian jobs too. The most common example is someone who gets robbed at gun point and mentally can not feel comfortable with a return to … Continue Reading
Shady employers cheat the Government and employees by calling their workers independent contractors when they really aren’t. It happens to no profession more than truck drivers. There was a recent court case decided in favor of a truck driver who was told he wasn’t an employee and did a great job of showing why he … Continue Reading
Here’s a good one to know. When you are a traveling employee in Illinois, if your employer can “reasonably forsee” that you might do an activity, if you get hurt while doing that you have a case. What does “reasonably forsee” mean? It’s been pretty broadly interpreted to mean that most injuries you have while … Continue Reading
