If you have work injury in Illinois, and are not being paid you must file a request for hearing before the arbitrator in your venue ( area where you were injured and where the case is assigned). Since the injured worker has to prove every thing in the case, you must have a doctor’s statement indicating the work accident and your current condition keeping you off work is related. Often the insurance company lawyer will require a deposition of the doctor. A deposition is simply a meeting with a doctor where your lawyer and the insurance company lawyer ask the doctor questions and the answers are transcribed on paper.
This usually takes several months due to the doctor’s scheduling requirements. Once the deposition is taken a trial can usually take place within a short period of time.
The key is to notify your Workers Compensation attorney as soon as possible that you are not being paid. This will allow the meetings with your doctor to be scheduled without delay.