Workers’ Compensation

Some job injuries are frustrating but minor. With the right treatment, the affected worker can eventually resume their job with few issues. Other times, workers may sustain injuries that change their lives. Brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and amputations are...

Working as a flight attendant was once a particularly glamorous career. There were more applicants than open positions, and people felt intensely jealous of those who held such positions. Working as a flight has become something closer to a customer service role in...

If your workplace injury was a single accident that harmed a single body part, you may have a relatively straight-forward claim for workers' compensation benefits. However, what happens when you suffered multiple injuries as a result of multiple job-related accidents?...

There are several different ways you can win your legal case. One way to succeed is to persuade the court that your case is sufficiently strong on the facts to necessitate a decision in your favor. Another way is to argue compellingly that, regardless of certain...

For some Illinois workers, their jobs present them with a daily risk of injury. For those individuals, remaining in their jobs for a period of years may mean incurring multiple workplace accidents and multiple injuries that damage various parts of their bodies. When...

If you are injured at work and are eligible for an award of workers’ compensation benefits, it is important to make sure that you get every dollar to which you are entitled. If you are receiving a wage differential award, even just a few dollars' difference in terms...

Flight attendants have physically demanding jobs in conditions that are sometimes unpredictable. The work conditions and the duties of these professionals can lead to considerable injuries. One type of injury that might occur in a flight attendant work-related...

One of the objectives of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act is to ensure the financial security of workers injured and disabled as a result of on-the-job injuries. Although the law provides the injured worker with weekly paid benefits known as temporary total...

This article originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune Business Section on April 19, 2022. NORMAL, Illinois — As problems go, Rivian CEO and founder R.J. Scaringe believes he has a good one. The startup EV manufacturer has renovated a shuttered Normal factory,...