Lawmaker Proposes Tightening Causation Standards, Lowering Benefits

A Republican lawmaker introduced bills that would tighten Illinois' causation standards, reduce certain schedule loss of use awards to what they were two decades ago and require reducing work comp benefits owed to those who have suffered a subsequent injury. Another bill that Rep. Dan Ugaste, R-Geneva, introduced Friday would set limits on prescriptions for custom compound drugs. And a bill introduced Monday by a Chicago Democrat would create a presumption that post-traumatic stress disorder is compensable for firefighters and paramedics. HB 1253 would change the compensability sta...