Spiros Law, P.C. Archives

In Continental Tire of the Americas, LLC v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, the Fifth Appellate Court ruled that the Commission is not required to make a judgment of a claimant’s supposition of an incident of workplace injury if the only evidence he has at hand is an AMA impairment rating report. The appellate court noted… Read More

Central Management Services director Thomas Tyrell filed a lawsuit on Friday, November 13 in Sangamon County Circuit Court in Illinois against Attorney General Lisa Murray Madigan, claiming that “millions” of dollars have been wrongfully awarded by an Illinois state agency that should pay workers’ compensation benefits to injured workers, but instead has been paying “hundreds”… Read More

The Illinois Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday, November 4 in the case of Folta v. Ferro Engineering, which sought to find out whether an employee can bring legal action against an employer outside of the Workers’ Compensation Act and the Occupational Diseases Act when onset of the employee’s injury or disease occurs after the expiration… Read More

Ten lawmakers on key Senate and House of Representatives committees and members of the Democratic Party, including presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, have asked the United States Department of Labor to address a “pattern of detrimental changes in state workers’ compensation laws” that have increasingly limited protections and benefits for injured workers over the past ten… Read More

Ten lawmakers on key Senate and House of Representatives committees and members of the Democratic Party, including presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, have asked the United States Department of Labor to address a “pattern of detrimental changes in state workers’ compensation laws” that have increasingly limited protections and benefits for injured workers over the past ten… Read More

Algonquin, Illinois resident Tracy Williams, also known as Tracy Wanker, was convicted and indicted in a 10-count indictment for insurance fraud, aggravated insurance fraud, workers’ compensation fraud, and perjury, in Kane County after admitting her guilt on the charges on July 29, 2015, Illinois Department of Insurance acting director Anne Melissa Dowling announced late last… Read More

Illinois Department of Insurance acting director Anne Melissa Dowling announced on Tuesday, August 11th that an Algonquin, Illinois resident, Tracy Williams, pleaded guilty to charges of workers’ compensation fraud, insurance fraud, aggravated insurance fraud, and perjury related to her claims of benefits, among other charges. Williams was convicted of the 10-count indictment and was sentenced… Read More

According to a column published in the Chicago Sun-Times on July 20, there is a lot of erroneous rhetoric surrounding the workers’ compensation issue in Illinois. The report outlined several facts, one of which highlighted a national study from Oregon of workers’ compensation systems that placed Illinois with the seventh most expensive insurance costs in the nation. According… Read More

Illinois State Representative John Bradley (Democrat of Marion) praised the recently released Workers’ Compensation Commission Report which details how workers’ compensation reforms enacted in 2011 paved the way for business owners in the state to have less costs associated with those matters. In a news release, Bradley indicated that until recently, he “consistently hear[d] from… Read More

An industry group of insurers spoke against House Bill 1287, a bill that seeks to further workers’ compensation changes through regulation and price control, according to WorkersCompensation.com on July 1. The group consists of the AIA, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, the Illinois Insurance Association, and the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America;… Read More