Industry Insights
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Keefe: Illinois Workers' Comp Reform Update | 01/24/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The battle in Springfield continues to rage. Here are our thoughts along with the analysis/comments of the workers' compensation gurus at the Illinois Chamber of Commerce. We like to tell all of our readers that chamber President Todd Maisch and his expert lobbyist, Jay De...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Massive Comp Amendments Proposed and May Be Coming | 01/17/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| We thank J. Todd Foster of WorkCompCentral for giving us the heads up on this new proposed legislation. It is part of a bigger package of 13 — yes, lucky 13 — bills proposed by the Illinois Senate that have to all be agreed upon by everyone or they all fall to the wayside....Read More | |||
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Karlen: Fun With Temporary Disability | 01/10/2017 | |
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| By: Cynthia K. Karlen | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| Despite much confusion, calculating temporary disability (TD) can be easy — and fun — if we keep a few simple rules in mind. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Donald Trump Is Here to Stay | 11/16/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The election is finally over and no one will miss the 2106 presidential campaign that was packed with controversy. We have literally thousands of disbelieving folks across the country who can't countenance the outcome. ...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Approval of Lien Changes Headline Busy Legislative Session | 10/21/2016 | |
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| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Gov. Jerry Brown enacted numerous changes that will help carriers fight fraudulent lien claimants when he closed out the 2016 legislative session by signing new lien procedures into law. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Illinois Gets a Little Better for Business | 10/19/2016 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| One of the more statistically significant methods to track workers's comp costs across the U.S. is the every-other-year ranking from the State of Oregon. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Employer Must Pay 25% Legal Fee Despite Worker's $64M Recovery | 09/27/2016 | |
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| State: NA | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| In Bayer v. Panduit, the Illinois Supreme Court considered a claim where the worker was severely injured. In his third-party action against the construction companies who caused the accident, he recovered an Illinois-record $64 million verdict for such injuries. At the time of the jury ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Uh-Oh, Uninsured Motorists | 09/19/2016 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| The Illinois Appellate Court recently ruled an injured van driver could not maintain a civil action against his employer due to the employer's failure to maintain underinsured motorist coverage with a high enough limit to afford him additional compensation for an on-the-job car accident....Read More | |||
| Kahl: Compromise and Releases: The Pitfalls of Paragraph 3 | 09/07/2016 | ||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| You probably look at a compromise and release (“C&R”) form on a daily basis, whether you are drafting a new agreement or reviewing an old one, but have you actually read all the fine print? If you have, have you thought through all the ways you might need to protect...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Employee's Retaliatory Discharge Action Dismissed | 08/31/2016 | |
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| State: IL | Segment: Top | 0 | |||
| A former City of Chicago employee’s Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act retaliatory-discharge claim failed as a matter of law because there was no evidence the official who made the decision to terminate the plaintiff (and many others) had any knowledge that the plaintif...Read More | |||
