The Illinois Fourth District Appellate Court’s Workers’ Compensation Commission Division rejected a claim brought forward by Michael Durbin on Sunday, July 17. Durbin is a former employee of the Chicago-based global food processing company Archer Daniels Midland. After retiring in 2003 at age 48 after working at the factory for 30 years, Durbin said he… Read More
The Illinois Fourth District Appellate Court’s Workers’ Compensation Commission Division rejected a claim brought forward by Michael Durbin on Sunday, July 17. Durbin is a former employee of the Chicago-based global food processing company Archer Daniels Midland. After retiring in 2003 at age 48 after working at the factory for 30 years, Durbin said he… Read More
According to an Illinois Policy article, the Illinois workers’ compensation program is outdated and in need of a revamp. For example, medical providers can charge 200% to 300% more for a procedure under workers’ compensation than it would cost under Medicare. These fee schedules increase expenses to employers while patients are over-treated, causing them to miss more days… Read More
The National Security Council has released a list of what it has found to be the top three causes of car accident fatalities. Drunk driving, distracted driving, and speeding were found to be the most common reasons behind the startling incidence of car accidents. While these behaviors are all preventable, distracted driving is particularly troubling,… Read More
The National Security Council has released a list of what it has found to be the top three causes of car accident fatalities. Drunk driving, distracted driving, and speeding were found to be the most common reasons behind the startling incidence of car accidents. While these behaviors are all preventable, distracted driving is particularly troubling,… Read More
Illinois Governor Bruce Vincent Rauner’s “Turnaround Agenda”, introduced in 2015, seeks to reduce workers’ compensation rates by following a more stringent causation standard that would require employees to provide evidence that their injuries were caused by a job-related activity, provide a strict definition of a traveling employee, and lower medical fee schedule payments, among others.… Read More
As compensation for dangers faced on the job, workers have the assurance of incurring workers’ compensation benefits should they become injured in their line of work. However, since 2003, over 30 states have approved measures that have “reduced benefits for injured workers, created hurdles for medical care, or made it more difficult for workers to qualify,” reports from… Read More
In 2011, truck driver Steve Dunteman was performing his job duties when he got a blister on his foot. He lanced the blister, but later his wound got infected and he lost his toe, in large part because of his diabetes. The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission ruled that Dunteman should not receive workers’ compensation benefits because his diabetes and… Read More
A man was killed yesterday morning while driving his pickup truck on southbound Illinois 1. Authorities don’t know how or why, but his truck ended up in the northbound, colliding with an oncoming tractor trailer. The driver of the pickup truck, whose name has yet to be released, died at the scene. The tractor trailer’s… Read More
Republicans in the Illinois legislature are saying that the new Illinois budget deal is close at hand, but several matters are still under debate, including the state’s policy on workers’ compensation. Wade Keats, owner of metal stamping service provider Keats Manufacturing Co., said workers’ compensation insurance is costing the company over a quarter of a million dollars… Read More
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