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Illinois Work Comp Settlement Tips

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Here are some top tips to increase your Illinois Workers’ Compensation settlement value.

  • Make sure to report your accident to your supervisor immediately.
  • Make sure to put your report in writing.
  • Make sure to keep a copy of your report.
  • Make sure to go to the doctor right away.
  • Make sure to tell your doctor that your injury happened at work and how it happened.
  • Make sure to tell your doctor about all your injured body parts at your first visit and repeat this at each visit.
  • Make sure to request an off work note from each doctor visit.
  • Make sure to follow all your doctor’s treatment orders.
  • Make sure to ask for a note detailing all your permanent restrictions at your final doctor visit.
  • Make sure to check with an experienced Illinois Workers’ Compensation lawyer regarding an estimate of the value of your case.
  • Make sure to have an attorney on your side to negotiate with the work comp insurance company.

Questions about your work injury and how to get full settlement value? Feel free to contact Illinois Workers’ Compensation Attorney Dirk May at 309-827-4371.

Florida Arrests 10 in Undercover Workers’ Comp Sting

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The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) announced 10 arrests following a multi-agency undercover workers’ compensat

Source: Florida Arrests 10 in Undercover Workers’ Comp Sting

 

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Make sure that your employer has Illinois Workers’ Compensation insurance. If not and you are injured this cause many problems in getting your medical bills paid. Make sure that you call an experienced Illinois Workers’ Compensation Lawyer to help you.

Illinois budget impasse may be broken with workers comp compromise – Watchdog.org

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House Minority Leader Jim Durkin thinks reforming workers comp is where Republicans and Democrats in Illinois can start to come together.

Source: Illinois budget impasse may be broken with workers comp compromise – Watchdog.org

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Be very nervous when Illinois Workers’ Compensation is the focus of the legislature and the Governor. It can only get worse for injured workers in this State.

Illinois: Workers’ Comp’s “Traveling Employee” Rule May Not Be Expanded to Tort Arena | the workcomp writer

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Under workers’ compensation law’s so-called “going and coming” rule, for an employee having fixed hours and place of work, injuries sustained en route to or from the workplace are generally not com…

Source: Illinois: Workers’ Comp’s “Traveling Employee” Rule May Not Be Expanded to Tort Arena | the workcomp writer

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Good description of Traveling employee rule for Workers’ Compensation. The rule expands the accidents for which you can be compensated. It does not extend to negligence cases. Questions about this complicated area of the law. Feel to contact me to discuss.

Can Union Workers Get Illinois Workers’ Compensation?

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Illinois law does not prevent Union Workers from being able to collect Workers’ Compensation benefits.

No union contract can bargain away your rights to get work comp benefits for a legitimate on the job injury.

Make sure that you report your injury to your supervisor right away.

Make sure that you complete the accident report and list all your injuries. Get a copy for yourself.

Make sure that you go to the doctor immediately.

Make sure that you tell the nurses and doctors that you were injured on the job and all the body parts that you injured.

Make sure that you follow the doctor’s orders for treatment and keep all your doctor appointments.

Make sure that Workers’ Compensation insurance pays all your medical bills, your time off work and your settlement.

Some insurance companies will forget to tell you that you are entitled to a settlement. You are entitled to a settlement under Illinois law whether you are a union worker or a non-union worker.

Questions about your work injury? Feel free to contact Illinois Workmans’ Compensation Lawyer Dirk May at 309-827-4371. Illinois lawyers only get paid if you get paid.