Illinois Court Reverses Denial of Benefits in Snow Shoveling Death Case

Illinois Court Affirms Award of Benefits to Traveling Employee Injured in Fall Down Employer’s Unobstructed Stairs

Mother of Illinois Fast Food Worker Slain by Co-Worker Cannot Sue in Tort

Illinois Employee’s Termination Not Retaliatory Where it Occurred Six Weeks Prior to His Filing Comp Claim

Where an Illinois employee failed to indicate to his employer that his absence from work was due to an alleged work-related injury and he filed his workers’ compensation claim six...

Illinois Court Nixes Jurisdiction When Injury and Employment Contract Were in Indiana

In an unpublished decision, an Illinois appellate court reversed a decision of a county circuit court confirming an award of workers’ compensation benefits by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission on...

Staffing Company’s Should Not Conflate Employment Contract and Specific Assignment

Employment Contract Formed In Illinois In Spite of Contingencies Required for First Assignment in Indiana In an unpublished decision, an Illinois appellate court affirmed a decision by the state’s Workers’...

Illinois Court Tacitly Says No Recovery Since Injury Was Claimant’s Fault

An Illinois appellate court affirmed the denial of workers’ compensation benefits to a university employee who sustained injuries when she tripped and fell as she stepped over a chain barrier...

Lack of Proximity Between Injury and Firing Found to be Fatal to Claim of Retaliatory Discharge

A federal district court in Illinois, construing that state’s law concerning retaliatory discharge claims, held–in relevant part–that a plaintiff’s factual allegations did not give rise to a claim of retaliatory...

Intervening IL Workers’ Comp Insurer is Not a “Party” to the Underlying Tort Suit

Circuit Court’s Contempt Order for Failure to Abide by Discovery Order is Erroneous An Illinois trial court committed error when it found an intervening workers’ compensation insurer in contempt for...

Illinois Supreme Court Clarifies Rule Regarding Injuries Stemming From Common Bodily Movements

The Supreme Court of Illinois reversed a decision of the Appellate Court, Workers’ Compensation Division, that in turn had affirmed a denial of benefits to a restaurant sous-chef who sustained...

Opinion Mondays: Later Today, IL Comm'n Will Say "Ooops" as to its Presumption of Compensability

Governor and Legislators Might Profit From Reading PA’s Protz Decision The controversial “rule change” put in place two weeks ago by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission, which purports to create...

Illinois Act Provides No Penalties for Delay in Authorizing Medical Treatment

An Illinois appellate court affirmed an order of a county circuit court that, in turn, confirmed a decision of the state’s Workers’ Compensation Commission reversing an award of attorney fees...