The IL IWCC just issued the following update: Beginning Monday March 23, 2020, the Commission will move forward with the below Emergency Motion Call for “Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission issues Update”
Tag: Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act
IL WC Update: I&F Prevails by proving Petitioner filed his Claim after statute of limitations expired
In this case, Petitioner was injured in an accepted, but unfiled, accident in 2016 when he slipped on ice and fell while walking on the “IL WC Update: I&F Prevails by proving Petitioner filed his Claim after statute of limitations expired”
IL WC UPDATE: New Accident While Seeking Treatment from Prior Accident Found Not Compensable
In 2019, the Third District Appellate Court issued a Rule 23 Decision in Gaytan v. The Illinois Workers’ Comp. Comm’n, 2019 IL App (3d) 180141WC-U, in “IL WC UPDATE: New Accident While Seeking Treatment from Prior Accident Found Not Compensable”
IL Amends Exclusive Remedy Provisions of WC and OD Acts
On May 17, 2019, Governor JB Pritzker signed SB 1596 into law as Public Act 101-0006. The new law amends the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act and “IL Amends Exclusive Remedy Provisions of WC and OD Acts”
SB1596 Passes the Illinois House of Representatives
Following our prior post regarding this piece of legislation, we can now report that on March 14, 2019, the Illinois House of Representatives passed SB1596 on a 70-40-1partisan “SB1596 Passes the Illinois House of Representatives”
Illinois Work Comp Back on the Table with IL SB1596
This Bill amends the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act and the Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act. The Bill provides that certain specific Sections of the Acts limiting “Illinois Work Comp Back on the Table with IL SB1596”
The Illinois General Assembly Takes a Fast and Hard Aim at the WC and OD Acts
It was not front and center on Governor Pritzker’s platform that he would be looking to push changes to the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission personnel “The Illinois General Assembly Takes a Fast and Hard Aim at the WC and OD Acts”
Facts Matter: IL Appellate Court Shows Importance of Thorough & Timely Accident Investigation
The Appellate Court recently affirmed a Commission decision that the petitioner had failed to prove an accident in ZENO PIECHOWICZ, Appellant, v. ILLINOIS WORKERS’ COMPENSATION “Facts Matter: IL Appellate Court Shows Importance of Thorough & Timely Accident Investigation”
Credits for Loss of Use of the Arm in Illinois after Will County Forest Preserve
“Will County Forest Preserve.” The very mention of this case – in which the Illinois Supreme Court held that the shoulder was to be classified as “Credits for Loss of Use of the Arm in Illinois after Will County Forest Preserve”
*Important Changes to IL WC Act
Earlier this year, both the Illinois House and Senate passed SB 904, a bill that made changes related to the payment of medical services under “*Important Changes to IL WC Act”