Insurance

Medical benefits.

Temporary Total Disability benefits.

Permanent Partial Disability benefits.

You are entitled to medical treatment that is related to your work injury and that is reasonable and necessary.

You are entitled to two-thirds of your wage based on the 52 weeks before your injury. You will need to have a doctor taking you off work due to your work injury.

You are entitled to 60 percent of your wage based on the 52 weeks before your injury times a certain number of weeks. For instance, the back is worth 500 weeks total. If you have an injury that is worth 10 percent of the back, then you are entitled to 50 weeks.

This is commonly referred to as the settlement, or lump sum payment.

Questions about your work injury? Feel free to contact Illinois Work Comp Lawyer Dirk May at 309-827-4371.

There will be 3 arbitrators at each site.

They will be assigned to cases randomly.

Currently there is one arbitrator at each site.

Your case will come up once every 3 months.

Now it comes up once every 2 months.

This means it will take longer to get to your case.

Before you would know the arbitrator’s tendencies and what to expect from decisions.

Now you will have to keep track of three arbitrators.

The Governor’s press statement announcing the appointment of the new arbitrators emphasized improving the business climate in Illinois.

This may have some chilling effect on injured workers’ cases.