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For an injury to be covered under the Illinois Workers Compensation Act, your Illinois workers compensation attorney must determine if an accident or accidental injury arose out of and in the course of the worker’s employment.  It is very common for the employer’s insurance company to argue about whether the worker’s injury meets these requirements.  […]

Sounds like an easy question.  You work for someone else, so you must be considered an employee.  But it’s not always that easy.  Under Illinois workers compensation law, the determination of who is an employee and who is an employer can be a complicated question.  It is very important for your attorney to establish that […]

Workers compensation laws are designed to protect the injured worker.  As described by the Illinois Supreme Court, the purpose of the Workers’ Compensation Act “…is to provide employees a prompt, sure, and definite compensation, together with a quick and efficient remedy, for injuries or death suffered by such employees in the course of their employment  […]

In our earlier article called “How to properly protect yourself”, we explained how common it is for a worker to contact Illinois workers compensation lawyers and explain to them that they were injured, and their employer has already started taking care of the workers compensation case. The worker often tells compensation lawyers that that their […]

Often, injured workers contact an attorney and tell them that they were hurt on the job, but their employer is already taking care of the workers compensation case.  The worker explains that their employer acted immediately and contacted the company insurance adjuster, who then promptly jumped into action. This insurance company assured the worker that […]