Spiros Law, P.C. Blog

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

Just before 8 am on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, a teen girl was hit by an SUV while walking to Centennial High School. According to police, the girl is around 14 or 15 years old, and was struck by the SUV when she ran across the middle of the street with friends without using a… Read More

A single-vehicle accident on Interstate 57 in Kankakee County took the lives of three men, while a fourth passenger remains severely injured. Police were called to the scene of the wreck at 6:15 am on Monday after a witness called for help. According to accident reports, the vehicle landed in a culvert, pinning two men inside… Read More

A loophole in Illinois’ workers’ compensation system is allegedly being used by Illinois physicians for personal gain. The system allows for a process called ‘physician dispensing’, which allows Illinois doctors to prescribe medicine to injured workers, as well as sell it for profit. When given the right to profit by selling drugs, doctors prescribe 3.2 times the… Read More