Tag Archives: PTSD

When Your Work Injury Impacts Your Mental Health

By Mike Helfand on July 14, 2025 Posted in Injuries

Most Illinois workers’ compensation cases involve physical injuries. You slip on a wet floor and tear your ACL. You do a lot of typing and get carpal tunnel syndrome. Occasionally people have mental injuries like PTSD. That can happen from being robbed at gun point or seeing a co-worker get killed. And at times people … Continue Reading

Teachers’ Injuries And Illinois Workers’ Compensation

By Mike Helfand on May 27, 2024 Posted in Do I Have a Case?

Free Illinois workers compensation advice for teachers and other school workers from a top Chicago work injury law firm. PTSD, slip and falls, lifting injuries and more. … Continue Reading

Options When You Are Assaulted At Work In Illinois

By Mike Helfand on June 27, 2023 Posted in Injuries

We have been helping injured workers in Illinois since 1997 and help everywhere in IL via our state-wide network of experienced attorneys. If you would like a free consultation, you can call us any time at 888-705-1766. You will speak with an attorney and get direct, honest advice. I recently had a chat with an … Continue Reading

DWP, Medical Only Claims, And Other Illinois Work Comp Questions

By Mike Helfand on November 5, 2022 Posted in Tips if Injured

We are experienced Illinois work comp attorneys who will talk to you for free. Please call us any time at 312-346-5578. We help with accidents and injuries everywhere in Illinois. We get so many great questions that every couple of months I like to do a blog post about them. Here are some of the … Continue Reading

First Responders And Illinois Work Comp

By Mike Helfand on June 29, 2018 Posted in Tips if Injured

Emergency workers and first responders are the brave individuals first to respond to disastrous events. Their lives are often at stake as they serve, protect and save. They dedicate their lives to helping others, but many find their own mental health suffering as a result. Just as our nation’s soldiers and veterans battle the effects … Continue Reading

PTSD and Illinois Workers’ Compensation Claims

By Mike Helfand on April 12, 2018 Posted in Injuries

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