Workers’ Compensation and Truck Accidents: We Found the Perfect Marriage!
Grazian and Volpe can’t write enough about trucking companies and shippers disregarding or attempting to circumvent state and federal laws and regulations aimed at preventing truck accidents. We simply can’t avoid advocating for workers’ injured on the job who are having difficulty with their workers’ compensation claims certainly not helped by the State of Illinois […]
Workers’ Injury: Big Verdict in Plant Explosion
Workers’ Injury: Big Verdict in Plant Explosion Workers’ Injuries: Man wins $5.71 million dollar verdict for injuries sustained as a result of an explosion at employer power plant. The jury found his employer liable for deliberately intending the worker’s injuries to occur. Evidence indicated that the employer had experienced a similar explosion at another power […]
Workers’ Compensation: Highlights of 2011 Rewrite
Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act: Your Personal Injury Lawyers at Grazian and Volpe have been blogging extensively about the 2011 rewrite of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act. The outcome of such broad changes in law are difficult to predict and it will be up to lawyers, IWCC arbitrators and commissioners and up the chain of judges […]
Good News for Workers’ Compensation: Doctor’s Detailed Histories to Go Online
Workers’ Compensation claims finally get some good law in Illinois. On August 5th, I wrote about the need for a worker, injured on the job, to know that he or she has the right to choose their own doctor if they are not satisfied with treatment or diagnosis rendered by the company chosen physician (grazianandvolpe.com […]