A personal injury lawsuit arises when an injured person suffers an injury from an accident and attempts to seek financial compensation from the person legally responsible for that injury. The motive of a personal injury lawsuit is to get compensation for losses...
The law gives you the right to file for compensation if you have been injured or taken ill at work. These benefits, which insurance companies administer, are sometimes denied. If you have been injured on the job in Illinois and were denied compensation, you may be...
Workers’ compensation is simply insurance that takes care of an employee when injured during work or develops an illness due to work. For an employee to be eligible for worker’s comp, the injury must not be self-inflicted. Also, the injury must not arise...
Workplace accidents are often the cause of the majority of the misfortunes suffered by employees. However, some result from occupational diseases, and luckily, all states in the U.S. provide coverage for occupational diseases right under the workers’...
The Illinois Workers Compensation Act has determined that the value of a rotator cuff tear is based on a man as a whole pursuant to recent case law, as opposed to loss of use of an arm. A man as a whole case has a total value is 500 weeks, whereas loss of use of an...
