In April of 2021, a class of workers filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois over wages that they claimed that they claimed were owed to them by Cresco Labs Inc., an Illinois-based company that cultivates and dispenses medical and...
In a case where a municipal respondent claimed that it could not afford to pay an employee’s worker’s compensation benefits, due to alleged arrearages and/or a lack of funds, in the municipality’s various bank accounts and sources of revenue, the Commission held that...
Sometimes, a situation that seems straightforward as a matter of right and wrong may not be quite so simple when the framework of the law is imposed on it. Such is the case in the recently decided Vesey v. Envoy Air, Inc., No. 20-1606, 2021 WL 2176792 (7th Cir. 2021),...
Registered nurses face a variety of injuries because of the kind of work they do. Here are three top observances concerning such injuries from a study published under the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. About the study Approximately 3 million registered nurses work...
As stated in the blog article that I wrote last month, I have reviewed cases that involve unique sets of facts, such as where a claimant was able to obtain benefits after shooting himself at work.[1] In last month’s article, I also wrote about a case in which a...
Occurring outside of Illinois but not outside of the federal Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, a potentially important decision regarding Government and Police liability was decided in May. The case concerned the death of a motorist, Erica Flores, when her...
I have read, reviewed and/or written about several cases that have or involve unusual and unique factual patterns or situations, such as a workers’ compensation matter that I wrote about last year, in which a claimant successfully brought a claim for benefits...
It is easy enough to come up with examples of jobs that a totally deaf person, even one without any sort of mitigating medical devices or partial hearing, could do with hardly any accommodation at all. Anything ranging from entry-level data entry, stocking, or...
Proving the existence of an employer-employee relationship is the first step for a claimant on the proverbial road to success in a worker’s compensation claim, but it is amazing how many employers still try to wiggle out of providing worker’s compensation insurance...
After a car accident, people contact their insurance companies to file claims and get the process started of repairing damages and paying for medical expenses. However, insurance companies frequently offer low settlements in hopes that they will not have to cover the...