Lawmaker Criticizes Report that Compliments Workers' Compensation System

The National Safety Council ranks Illinois as the nation’s second-safest state and lauds its generous workers’ compensation benefits, prompting one lawmaker to criticize the report and to call Illinois a “nanny state.” Sen. Chuck Weaver, R-Peoria, told the Illinois News Network, an arm of the libertarian think tank Illinois Policy Institute, that he speaks every week to business owners who complain about the state’s workers’ compensation system. “Right now, they feel that they are being taken advantage of. They feel that the laws are unfair. They...