Everyone gets that if you are hurt doing your normal job, your injuries should be covered under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act. So if you are a firefighter and run in to a burning building and tear your meniscus or hurt your neck while doing so, there would hopefully be no dispute that you were … Continue Reading
A reader clicked on our live chat feature and asked a very good Illinois workers’ compensation question: I have a back injury and was released to full duty. Do I get a settlement? It’s a question we hear a lot. Under Illinois work comp law, pretty much every injury is worth something even if you … Continue Reading
A reader asked us a long question that I will shorten for the blog. The question was essentially: Do you need a doctor to say carpal tunnel came from working on your job or can you beat a case due to the type of work a person has performed for many years? It’s a good … Continue Reading
A reader asks: I’ve been on comp for a while and want to move out of Illinois for a couple reasons. First, I’m not happy with my doctors. Second, I have some family issues to take care of in the state I want to move to. Will it hurt my case if I leave Illinois? … Continue Reading
We are very experienced attorneys who can help you with your injury case. If you would like our help fill out our contact form or call us at 312-346-5578 for a free consultation. The biggest growing job in the last five years has to be driving for Uber and/or Lyft. I’ve gotten a couple of … Continue Reading
Under Illinois workers’ compensation law, the insurance company is not required to give you a settlement offer. We’ve had a bunch of questions lately from people wondering why that haven’t gotten one and there are a ton of reasons why it could be happening. Here are some scenarios. High wage earner has been getting TTD … Continue Reading
One of the biggest factors in determining what your case is worth is how much is your average weekly wage. The easiest scenario is when someone is paid a salary on the job. Typically you’d take their salary and any bonuses and divide by 52. Under Illinois work comp law, average weekly wage is determined … Continue Reading
Illinois workers’ compensation law says that when you can’t work due to a work injury, you are entitled to temporary total disability benefits (TTD) for the time you can’t work. That is 2/3 of your average weekly wage, tax free. Under Illinois law the first three days you miss from work do to a work … Continue Reading
A very nice caller to my office hurt her shoulder while working in the northern suburbs of Chicago and was upset over what an insurance adjuster had told her. Long story short, her doctor said she might need surgery, but wanted to try six weeks of physical therapy first. This woman does not want to … Continue Reading
One thing I’ve noticed in handling cases for over 20 years is that potential clients tend to have similar questions and experiences. That’s in part because many insurance companies use the same tactics to try and discourage you from pursuing a claim or limiting what they pay you, even if it breaks the law. A … Continue Reading
While the number one question we get from people is, “What is my case worth?”, we’ve been getting a lot of calls and e-mails lately from people who are asking if they are entitled to a settlement all. While we can be selective in the cases we take on, the reality is that almost every … 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
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
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
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
It takes a lot to become an orthopedic doctor. Because those jobs tend to pay so well, many of the best and brightest medical students take those jobs. Most doctors in that practice make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year if not millions. Essentially once you get in to that area of practice you’ll … Continue Reading
A caller to our office suffered a really serious shoulder injury that was going to keep her out of work for three months or more following a surgery. She was in physical therapy and making great progress, but got very upset and nervous after receiving a call from an insurance adjuster telling her that she … Continue Reading
When someone is so severely injured that they can’t work again or can’t return to their old job, it’s usually from a back or neck injury. In some occasions it can be other body parts though. These permanent disability or wage differential cases are the most valuable under Illinois workers’ compensation law and bring the … Continue Reading
Normally when an Illinois work comp attorney does something terrible, it makes me frustrated and I write a blog post as a therapeutic way to vent about while hopefully helping readers learn more about Illinois workers compensation law and how things really work. I had a unique experience recently when a very dumb Chicago workers’ … Continue Reading
A reader asks: I hurt my back at work nearly three years ago and had surgery. It was a long process to get better, but I was finally discharged by my surgeon about six months ago. I’ve been back at work and feel great. Do you know when the insurance company will make me a … Continue Reading
The most massive Illinois work injury cases are worth a few hundred thousand dollars. I’m talking about cases where someone is permanently disabled from working or has a large wage differential from what they used to earn compared to what they can now earn due to permanent restrictions. In death cases, the minimum payout over … Continue Reading
A reader clicked on our live chat feature and asked a very good Illinois workers’ compensation question: I have a back injury and was released to full duty. Do I get a settlement? It’s a question we hear a lot. Under Illinois work comp law, pretty much every injury is worth something even if you … Continue Reading
A reader asked us a long question that I will shorten for the blog. The question was essentially: Do you need a doctor to say carpal tunnel came from working on your job or can you beat a case due to the type of work a person has performed for many years? It’s a good … Continue Reading
A reader asks: I’ve been on comp for a while and want to move out of Illinois for a couple reasons. First, I’m not happy with my doctors. Second, I have some family issues to take care of in the state I want to move to. Will it hurt my case if I leave Illinois? … Continue Reading
We are very experienced attorneys who can help you with your injury case. If you would like our help fill out our contact form or call us at 312-346-5578 for a free consultation. The biggest growing job in the last five years has to be driving for Uber and/or Lyft. I’ve gotten a couple of … Continue Reading
Under Illinois workers’ compensation law, the insurance company is not required to give you a settlement offer. We’ve had a bunch of questions lately from people wondering why that haven’t gotten one and there are a ton of reasons why it could be happening. Here are some scenarios. High wage earner has been getting TTD … Continue Reading
One of the biggest factors in determining what your case is worth is how much is your average weekly wage. The easiest scenario is when someone is paid a salary on the job. Typically you’d take their salary and any bonuses and divide by 52. Under Illinois work comp law, average weekly wage is determined … Continue Reading
Illinois workers’ compensation law says that when you can’t work due to a work injury, you are entitled to temporary total disability benefits (TTD) for the time you can’t work. That is 2/3 of your average weekly wage, tax free. Under Illinois law the first three days you miss from work do to a work … Continue Reading
A very nice caller to my office hurt her shoulder while working in the northern suburbs of Chicago and was upset over what an insurance adjuster had told her. Long story short, her doctor said she might need surgery, but wanted to try six weeks of physical therapy first. This woman does not want to … Continue Reading
One thing I’ve noticed in handling cases for over 20 years is that potential clients tend to have similar questions and experiences. That’s in part because many insurance companies use the same tactics to try and discourage you from pursuing a claim or limiting what they pay you, even if it breaks the law. A … Continue Reading
While the number one question we get from people is, “What is my case worth?”, we’ve been getting a lot of calls and e-mails lately from people who are asking if they are entitled to a settlement all. While we can be selective in the cases we take on, the reality is that almost every … 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
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
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
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
It takes a lot to become an orthopedic doctor. Because those jobs tend to pay so well, many of the best and brightest medical students take those jobs. Most doctors in that practice make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year if not millions. Essentially once you get in to that area of practice you’ll … Continue Reading
A caller to our office suffered a really serious shoulder injury that was going to keep her out of work for three months or more following a surgery. She was in physical therapy and making great progress, but got very upset and nervous after receiving a call from an insurance adjuster telling her that she … Continue Reading
