Workers' Compensation News
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Keefe: Ready for Even Higher Taxes Next Year and for Years to Come? | 07/11/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 1032 | 0 | |||
| Last week, the Illinois General Assembly, led by House Speaker Michael Madigan, raised our state income tax to 4.95% to raise about $5 billion in new money from you, me and business. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Gov't Will Continue to Financially Struggle for Decades to Come | 07/06/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 1071 | 0 | |||
| Watching the mess that has gone on and continues in Springfield, one has to wonder if there is any chance it is ever going to calm down and fly along traditional lines of state government. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Can the General Assembly Reach a Capitol Compromise? | 06/20/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 1320 | 0 | |||
| We are advised that several folks in Spring-Nuts, I mean Springfield, came to the realization that our state government’s lack of a budget for the last several years was causing irrevocable financial damage with threats to continued government viability. If the dysfunction continued, one co...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Math on Wage Loss Differential Forever Changed | 06/13/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 1178 | 0 | |||
| You can’t ignore the ever-rising Cook County minimum wage ramp when calculating wage loss differential claims in Illinois workers' compensation. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Could This Be the Dumbest Reform in History of Work Comp? | 05/31/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 1243 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| My amazing brother Joe has been in comedy for decades. Whenever it comes to politicians, he always recommends you vote for the funny ones. When politics eventually get boring, and they always do, Joe points out that you can always laugh at the funny politicians. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: WC Reform Proposals to Get Our Claims Industry Out of Legislative Cross-Hairs | 05/24/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 1189 | 0 | |||
| We find it a bit puzzling that workers’ compensation reform continues to be such a focus of concern to the extent it is seen as a sticking point for our state’s budget. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: A New and Blurring Part of WC Reforms | 05/18/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 2195 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| A Chicago Democrat presented new Illinois workers' compensation reform legislation incorporating a “resource-based relative value scale,” or RBRVS, as the physician-health care payment system and a cost savings mega-plum for state employers and local governments....Read More | |||
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Keefe: ADA, Comp Interact — and Sometimes Oddly Intertwine | 05/04/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: NA | Segment: Top | 1304 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| At the suggestion of one of our readers, I want to provide some thoughts on this federal ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and typically state-run work comp concepts. Sometimes they work in unison and harmony, sometimes the results are odd. ...Read More | |||
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Kamin: Fore! Take Care When Hitting the Greens This Summer | 05/03/2017 | |
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| Source: John P. Kamin | |||
| State: CA | Segment: Top | 1209 | 0 | Popular with Legal | |||
| Millions of American golfers will hit the links this summer, not knowing the dangers that lurk afoot. ...Read More | |||
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Keefe: Can't Legislate Causation in State Workers' Comp | 04/25/2017 | |
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| By: Eugene Keefe | |||
| State: IL | Segment: Top | 1443 | 0 | |||
| Gov. Bruce Rauner, state Sen. Christine Radogno and other Illinois legislators were fighting to change “causation” in workers’ comp with an eye on saving billions for business and local government. ...Read More | |||
