On June 15, 2012, President Barack Obama signed an executive order creating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. DACA allowed some 752,000 undocumented immigrants who were [...]
An estimated eight million undocumented immigrants are currently working in the United States. Despite their legal status, nearly all fifty states have determined that injured undocumented [...]
Goldberg Weisman Cairo attorney Donn P. LaHaie recently obtained a $254,727.79 workers’ compensation settlement for a truck driver who seriously injured his right knee while on the job. In [...]
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) recently awarded benefits to a flight attendant who injured herself after falling two times at an airport. Though the flight attendant was [...]
The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC) recently approved benefits for a woman who was injured when a coworker jumped on her because it was determined that she was the [...]
Since taking office in 2015, Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has been battling with the Illinois General Assembly to impose drastic Illinois Workers’ Compensation “Reform.” Noting [...]
On May 26, 2017, Illinois Democratic legislators voted to pass two new measures designed to reform workers’ compensation law in the state. The measures were proposed in response to Gov. Bruce [...]
All too often, good people are injured on the job and believe in the “false hope” that they will either get better and return to normal life in a short period of time, or they simply believe that [...]
An Estee Lauder employee who was injured at the mall was recently denied workers’ compensation benefits because she was determined to have been off duty at the time. In the matter of Kohl [...]
If you suffer a work injury, it is important that you report the incident to your employer as soon as possible. You may be entitled to disability benefits and medical treatment paid for by your [...]
