Comp System to Be Paperless in 72 Weeks, Commissioner Vows

After years of talk and a few baby steps, a move to make the workers' compensation system in Illinois all-electronic is about to kick into high gear. “Our goal is to be totally paperless in 72 weeks,” the state's Workers' Compensation Commission chairman, Michael Brennan, said at a conference last week. Brennan, who was appointed chairman in March by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, said the commission has partnered with WorkComp Strategies, a consulting firm, and with Microsoft Dynamics to ditch the old system that still requires users to file paper forms for many claims-rela...