Spiros Law, P.C. Blog

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has fined the U.S. Postal Service facility in Champaign, Illinois $144,000 for eight safety violations. The USPS was cited for failing a complaint inspection in June that showed failure to provide energy control procedures and fall protection at the site. According to OSHA’s Peoria… Read More

Seventy-six-year-old Rhode Island resident Marta Rangel pleaded nolo contendre to one count of obtaining money under false pretenses on Wednesday, December 18 before Providence Superior Court Special Magistrate Patrick Burke for fraudulently collecting $10,000 in workers’ compensation insurance benefits while she was employed between February 2010 and June 2011. According to Attorney General Peter Kilmartin… Read More

The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has presented proposed rules to better workplace safety and health through a more transparent tracking of workplace injuries and illnesses. The public sector is given until Feb. 6, 2014 (90 days) to comment and make suggestions regarding the proposed rule, of which details will be announced in… Read More

Obese employees were found to make more workers’ compensation claims, in addition to their claims being more expensive,than their non-obese counterparts, global insurance brokerage firm Lockton Companies Inc. stated after a review of independent studies. Lockton referred to the National Council on Compensation Insurance’s 2010 study, which “showed workers’ compensation claims that included the obesity… Read More

On Tuesday October 29, the Illinois Chamber of Commerce released a report criticizing the state’s bias towards laborers when they file workers compensation claims. The report also measured how this bias affects the economic stability of Illinois. In a report titled “The Impact of Judicial Activism in Illinois: Worker’s Compensation Rulings from the Employer’s Perspective,”… Read More

The Illinois Chamber of Commerce accused the judiciary system for favoring labor groups over business owners by rewriting legal documents to accommodate laborers disproportionately. The Chamber of Commerce argued that this accommodation is the reason that Illinois has the fourth-highest workers’ compensation premium in the United States. Michael Carrigan, the president of Illinois AFL-CIO (American… Read More

42-year-old Nicole Gropp was injured in a three-car accident on I-74 in St. Joseph on October 31. Neither 34-year-old Hilary Edgerly, who was in the car directly in front of Gropp’s, nor 44-year-old Kevin Hedden, who was driving the semi truck in front of Edgerly’s car, were injured. Traffic was backed up around 8 a.m. when… Read More

A woman filed a lawsuit against the Skokie Police Department after she sustained several facial bone injuries when an officer smashed her head into a jail cell bench. 47-year old Cassandra Feuerstein of Chicago was being led out of her jail cell when Officer Michael Hart threw her back inside so forcefully, she slammed face-first… Read More

A man is in critical condition after he sustained severe burn injuries from falling on the electrified third rail of the Logan Square station September 26. The accident occurred before 4:30 p.m, according to the Chicago Fire Department’s news office. The man fell down on the third rail tracks and suffered burn injuries. The fire… Read More

A Ford Explorer rolled over along Interstate 290 in Addison on the morning of September 26, causing four people to be killed and four others to sustain injuries, according to the Illinois State Police. Addison Deputy Fire Chief Joe Leone said that seven of the passengers were thrown from the SUV after it swerved off… Read More