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Illinois workers compensation adjusters lie to injured workers all of the time. Do not let them get away with it. Find an experienced attorney who will protect you.… Continue Reading
Will my medical bills be paid by workers compensation in Illinois if I quit my job? Free consult with a top Chicago law firm for job injuries and accidents.… Continue Reading
Advice on how to get an Illinois workers' compensation claim number. What to do when your employer won't tell you who their work comp insurance is.… Continue Reading
Lawsuits for falling off a roof in Illinois due to negligence or faulty roofing material. You may have more options that just workers compensation.… Continue Reading
When you get hurt on the job in Illinois and start collecting workers’ compensation benefits, it can feel like your life has been turned upside down. Suddenly you are injured and have to talk to some insurance adjuster. Now you are regularly seeing doctors and may have to undergo invasive tests or even have surgery. … Continue Reading
If you are reading this, you will likely see a button for a live chat feature. When we are available, that is actually run by attorneys. So you can speak not just with a live person every time (no AI ever on here), but also with an attorney. I have so many great and interesting … Continue Reading
Remote workers and Illinois workers' compensation law. Best Chicago carpal tunnel attorney to help a remote worker who types all day. Free consultation. Joliet, Rockford, Peoria.… Continue Reading
Stockholm Syndrome is when captive or abused people start to feel positive feelings toward the one doing them harm. There’s a version of that which plays out every day with Illinois workers’ compensation lawyers. Some terrible Illinois work comp attorneys treat their clients like garbage. Most people would look at that situation and say to … Continue Reading
Our Illinois workers compensation law firm will talk to you for free. Fill out our contact form, start a chat or call us at 888-705-1766. We get so many great questions from injured workers that turn into blog posts. Some questions I think people would be interested in, but there’s not much more to say … Continue Reading
We are experienced Illinois workers’ compensation attorneys who will talk to you for free and in confidence about your case. Every year we help over 1,000 injured workers with all sorts of questions and injuries. We get so many great questions from Illinois workers. A lot of those questions come from a place of fear … Continue Reading
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One of the best things we do for people who have Illinois workers’ compensation claims is talk them off the ledge. A big injury can be scary. Missing time from work can be scary. A lot of people can be in your ear or make you worry about things you shouldn’t. Beyond that, a lot … Continue Reading
I’ve been blogging about Illinois workers’ compensation law for about 15 years. Somehow I keep on hearing new things that are worth publishing. I would have thought that I’d have run out of things to talk about years ago. Fortunately or unfortunately there are a lot of people doing things that I just can’t believe … Continue Reading
One of the tough things Illinois workers’ compensation lawyers – and probably people in most industries – have to deal with are perceptions that people have that don’t match reality. People read the internet or talk to people who have had work injuries previously and get ideas in their head that just aren’t true. Or … Continue Reading
Every Illinois work injury lawyer wants good cases. What’s a good case? That means a few things to me. First off, the client is a good person and easy to work with. Second is the case isn’t a mess. That means the client isn’t coming to us after a ton of mistakes have been made … Continue Reading
I recently talked to a worker at a large delivery company with a terrible back injury. He hurt himself lifting boxes on the job and eventually got a MRI that showed he has a herniated disc. He has pain shooting down his legs, trouble sleeping and generally speaking feels miserable. I would be very surprised … Continue Reading
Illinois workers’ compensation law is constantly changing. That’s because new cases come out all the time that change how the law is interpreted and applied. And while I wouldn’t say being an Illinois work comp attorney is like being a brain surgeon, it really does take years to learn how to properly handle these cases … Continue Reading
Workers’ compensation law is odd. It’s not like any other area of law because it has so many unique features compared to other practice categories. These aren’t lawsuits. We use Arbitrators not Judges. The burden of proof is unique. The law is constantly changing. Not only that, unlike divorce, traffic or car accidents, the law … Continue Reading
I had a nice conversation with a really sweet nurse who was injured on the job. She’s worked over 20 years without ever filing a workers comp case. But now she hurt her wrist badly and had to file a claim. She told her boss how she hurt the wrist when a patient got violent. … Continue Reading
What do under Illinois work comp law when the IME doctor disagrees with your treating doctor. Free consultation with an experienced work injury attorney out of Chicago.… Continue Reading