Mystery Surrounds Senate Subcommittee Meeting With Arbitrators

Five attorneys named to serve as workers’ compensation arbitrators in Illinois went through an unusual step on Friday: an appearance before the state Senate Judiciary subcommittee on tort reform. Gov. Bruce Rauner announced the appointments of the new arbitrators to the Workers’ Compensation Commission in September. They are: Thomas Ciecko, a former Illinois assistant attorney general, former senior attorney with McDonald’s Corp. and former head of the organized crime unit at the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office. Robert M. Harris, who was a work...