With Mail Delays, Petitions Can Now Be Emailed to Arbitrators

Because of COVID-19 and delays in the mail service, the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission is allowing motions and petitions to be sent to arbitrators via email. “As the bar is aware, the commission has faced great difficulty in the receipt and redistribution of mail,” commission Chairman Michael Brennan said in an emailed memo. Some of the information also was posted on the commission's website. The commission is temporarily dropping the requirement that a purple-ink commission stamp should be affixed to motions and petitions. But emailed documents and petitions s...