http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/ Published by Donald W. Fohrman & Associates, LTD en-us 2010-03-05T10:44:15-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2010/03/rockford_hospital_worker_cant.html The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commisison held that a worker's injuries sustained when she fell while wlaking down a hallway did not arise out of her employment. The worker failed to prove that her fall was caused by a substance on... Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Donald W. Fohrman 2010-03-05T10:44:15-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2010/02/illinois_workers_compensation_6.html The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission modified the arbitrator's decision awarding benefits by finding that the claimant sustained a nonwork-related intervening accident that broke the causation chain between the work accident and the claimant's present condition of ill-being. Accordingly, the Commission... Workers Compensation Donald W. Fohrman 2010-02-17T14:07:51-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2010/02/illinois_workers_permanency_aw.html The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission vacated the arbitrator's award of wage differential benefits under section 8(d)1 of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act and rejected the claimant's contention that he was entitled to permanent total disability benefits. The Commission found a... Workers Compensation Donald W. Fohrman 2010-02-15T13:51:02-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2010/02/illinois_appellate_court_wont.html The 4th District Illinois Appellate court is refusing to rehear a case which allows the withdrawal of past due child support payments from a workers' compensation award. Roby Ziegler, press secretary for the Illinois Attorney General's Office says that the... Workers Compensation Donald W. Fohrman 2010-02-11T15:57:03-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2010/02/federal_court_approves_a_62_mi.html A Federal court recently approved a ADA payout by Sears in the amount of $6.2 millions. The EEOC filed a lawsuit aganst Sears alleging that the Sears' policy of terminating employees instead of providing them with a reasonable accommodation for... Workers Comp News Donald W. Fohrman 2010-02-11T14:41:10-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2010/01/illinois_court_orders_chidlsup.html The Illinois Appellate Court, 4th District held that the trial court did not err when it ordered the the respondent's child-support arrearage plus interest be paid from his workers' compensation settlement. Although WCA Section 21 bars a lien against worker's... Workers Compensation Donald W. Fohrman 2010-01-21T12:09:52-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2010/01/illinois_employers_payment_of.html If an employer issues a check to a claimant pursuant to a medical expense award and includes the medical provider as a payee on such check, the employer may be sugjecto to penalties and attorney's fees. The emploeyr has not... Workers Compensation Donald W. Fohrman 2010-01-19T12:24:39-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2010/01/group_health_carriers_payment.html Payments by a group health carrier that qualify under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act Section 8(j) constitute payments of compensation within the meaning of Section 6(d). Case name: Ruberstell v. US Foodservice, 17ILWCLB 209 (Ill.W.C.Comm.2009) The Illinois Workers' Comensation Commissioin... Workers Compensation Donald W. Fohrman 2010-01-15T12:48:10-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2010/01/illinois_nurse_unable_to_secur.html The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission denied a claimant's request for surgery involving an artificial disk replacment. Case name: Warner v. Kewanee Hospital, 17 ILWCLB 175 (Ill.W.C.Comm.2009). Warner, a nurse at the defendant's hospital injured her back while helping to lift... Workers Compensation Donald W. Fohrman 2010-01-10T13:32:35-05:00 http://www.illinoisworkerscompensationlawyerblog.com/2009/10/illinois_deputys_personal_erra.html A majority of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission held that a law enforcement officer failed to prove that his vehicular accident, which occurred while he was on duty and in a patrol car, arose out of and in the course... Workers Comp News Donald W. Fohrman 2009-10-05T12:52:57-05:00