Commission Allows Emergency In-Person Hearings at Five Sites

Grappling with a statewide spike in coronavirus cases, the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission has again revised its rules for hearings. A week after it canceled all in-person hearings indefinitely, the commission on Monday announced that emergency in-person hearings would be allowed at five sites around the state. These are in Chicago, Rockford, Peoria, Springfield and Collinsville, a bulletin from the commission reads. To begin the process, attorneys should draft a new petition for immediate hearing, serve it upon all parties involved and email it to the appropriate emergency arb...