Medical Malpractice vs. Product Liability in Meningitis Lawsuits
A fungal meningitis outbreak which has caused 19 fatalities and afflicted 400 people in 19 states has been linked to contaminated steroid injections. Victims and their families have begun filing...
View ArticleIllinois Supreme Court to Hear Workers Comp Case
The Supreme Court of Illinois is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case of Skokie Castings, Inc. v. Illinois Insurance Guaranty Fund. The case arises from a Skokie Castings employee who sustained...
View ArticleStudy Shows Race-Based Disparity in Illinois Workers’ Compensation Awards
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health have released a study that shows workers’ compensation settlements awarded to white, non-Hispanic construction workers in...
View ArticleWoman Allegedly Files Fraudulent Workers’ Compensation Claims
A woman living in McHenry, Ill., faces multiple charges after being arrested for filing fraudulent workers’ compensation claims against three separate employers. Tracy Williams, 43, is charged with...
View ArticleIllinois Businesses Illegally Classifying Employees as Independent Contractors
State agencies including the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission are joining together to crack down on businesses that improperly classify employees as independent contractors. In contrast to...
View ArticleNurse Working for State of Illinois Wins Workers Compensation Award
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) has decided a case of a nurse who slipped and fell during an authorized break in favor of the worker. The nurse, who worked for the State of...
View ArticleAMA Impairment Guidelines May Negatively Impact Injured Workers
As part of reforms in the Illinois workers’ compensation system, impairment ratings promulgated by the American Medical Association (AMA) are now used by doctors and arbitrators to decide the workers’...
View ArticleEmployers Who Allegedly Failed to Obtain Workers Comp Insurance Are Indicted
Three Illinois employers have been indicted by a Cook County grand jury on Class 4 felony charges for allegedly failing to obtain workers’ compensation insurance. If convicted, the employers face 1 to...
View ArticleBLS Releases Data on Nonfatal Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released final data from 2011 on nonfatal on-the-job illnesses and injuries that required days away from work. The rate of such...
View ArticleFormer Illinois Police Officer Charged With Workers Comp Fraud
A former police officer for the village of Maryville has been indicted by a grand jury in Madison County, Illinois on charges related to an alleged fraudulent workers’ compensation claim. Richard...
View ArticleIllinois House Votes Unanimously to Outsource Workers Compensation
On May 30, the Illinois House passed legislation on a unanimous vote to outsource the state’s workers’ compensation system. The bill, HB 2958, would require the Department of Central Management...
View ArticleFatal Workplace Injuries On the Rise in Illinois
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has released its final data on fatal injuries in the workplace in the year 2010. While such on-the-job deaths have been decreasing nationwide for some time,...
View ArticlePainkillers May Increase Cost of Work Injuries
Insurance companies that reimburse employees for workplace injuries, pay billions of dollars every year, mainly for major accidents. Recently, another cost has emerged: payments to workers with routine...
View ArticleStudy Shows Safety Inspections Protect Workers and Do Not Hurt Businesses
Researchers have determined that random inspections of businesses in the United States have a measurable impact on the risk of workers being hurt on the job. Inspections lower the danger for workers,...
View ArticleChanges to Workers’ Compensation Have Not Saved Businesses Money
To date, there is scant evidence that changes in workers’ compensation laws have resulted in decreased costs for Illinois businesses. State lawmakers passed legislation in 2011 curtailing workers’ comp...
View ArticleMother of Woman Who Died After Abortion Files Lawsuit Against Planned Parenthood
A wrongful death lawsuit has been filed against Planned Parenthood and Northwestern Memorial Hospital by the mother of a woman who died shortly after she had an abortion in July. According to the Cook...
View ArticleDrew Peterson Seeks to Dismiss Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Drew Peterson’s lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit against the former Bolingbrook police officer, who was found guilty of murdering his third wife. The action came just...
View ArticleSwitching Surgeons Leads to Medical Malpractice Lawsuits
Two recent Chicago medical malpractice lawsuits have been filed over the same alleged misdeed: patients were operated on by a different surgeon from the one they were promised. Patients sometimes go to...
View ArticleWrongful Death Lawsuit Against Michael Jackson’s Doctor Dismissed
Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson’s father, has dismissed his wrongful death lawsuit against the singer’s doctor, Conrad Murray, who was convicted of causing his death. Court filings show that Joe Jackson...
View ArticleFederal Grand Jury Subpoenas Chicago Workers Comp Records
A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena for records spanning six years of Chicago’s workers’ compensation program. The subpoena was issued to the Finance Committee of Chicago’s City Council....
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