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Workers' Compensation News
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Keefe: Can the General Assembly Reach a Capitol Compromise?
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06/20/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 1238 | 0
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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: Could This Be the Dumbest Reform in History of Work Comp?
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05/31/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 1178 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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.
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Keefe: A New and Blurring Part of WC Reforms
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05/18/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 2101 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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
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05/04/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 1228 | 0 | Popular with Legal
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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.
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Keefe: Can't Legislate Causation in State Workers' Comp
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04/25/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 1380 | 0
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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.
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Keefe: Holy Smokes! Firefighter Loses WC Claim
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04/19/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: IL | Segment: Top | 1420 | 0
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In an astounding development to all Illinois workers' compensation observers, a majority of the members of our very, very, very liberal Appellate Court, Workers’ Comp Division, joins with the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission and lower court to deny a claim by an&n...Read More
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Keefe: Hacking May Change Workers' Comp Record-Keeping, Billing
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04/12/2017
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By: Eugene Keefe
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State: NA | Segment: Top | 1084 | 0
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If your financial stuff has ever been hacked, consider a challenging new statistic: By 2024, everyone in the U.S. may have had health care and workers’ comp data compromised if online theft keeps accelerating at the current pace.
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