Bipartisan Rule-Making Committee to Examine WCC Rules on FOIA, Filing, Judicial Review

A bipartisan legislative oversight committee will review several Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission rules during its meeting on Tuesday. The state's Joint Committee on Administrative Rules will look at regulations concerning access to records, electronic filing, pre-arbitration, arbitration, review, oral arguments, judicial review, settlement contracts and lump sum petitions, the discipline of attorneys and insurance regulations. The proposed rule on access to records would bring the workers' compensation system into compliance with Illinois' updated Freedom of In...