An Illinois county circuit court erred when it confirmed an award of workers’ compensation benefits for an Illinois resident who sustained injuries at her employer’s worksite in Indiana and who completed her employment application in Indiana... Read More

An Illinois appellate court held that where a temporary staffing agency assigns or loans a worker to a borrowing company, both the “lender” and the “borrower” are immune from tort liability under the exclusive remedy provisions... Read More

A state appellate court affirmed a decision by the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission that found it had jurisdiction to consider the injury claim of an operating room nurse hired by an Illinois staffing company who suffered injuries while... Read More

Under section 5(b) of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act [820 ILCS 305/5(b)], an employer or insurer who intervenes in a civil action filed by the injured employee against a third-party is only allowed to play a limited role in such litigation... Read More

Overruling Adcock v. Illinois Workers’ Compensation Comm’n , 2015 IL App (2d) 130884WC, and its progeny, to the extent that those decisions held injuries attributable to common bodily movements or routine everyday activities, such as bending... Read More

An Illinois appellate court, rendering a decision that is consistent with earlier federal court decisions on the same subject, held that an employee's civil action claim for statutory, liquidated damages against her employer for alleged violations... Read More

While the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act provides, under some circumstances, for the imposition of penalties for the delay in paying medical expenses and other benefits, there is no statutory authority for imposing penalties for an alleged delay... Read More

While workers’ compensation issues generally are to be determined exclusively by the Illinois Industrial Commission under 820 ILCS 305/18, nevertheless, that statutory provision does not divest the circuit court of jurisdiction of all issues involving... Read More

A borrowing employer is immune from tort liability with regard to injuries sustained by a temporary staffing agency worker assigned to it, held an Illinois appellate court. Moreover, that immunity springs from the borrowed-employee relationship itself... Read More

Where plaintiff, a semi-truck driver for a Pennsylvania corporation, sustained injuries in a vehicular accident in Grundy County, Illinois and eventually settled his Pennsylvania workers’ compensation claim by means of a settlement agreement in... Read More

Applying the state’s two-prong test to determine if the “dual capacity doctrine” could be utilized as an exception to the exclusive remedy provisions of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act, a state appellate court recently held... Read More

Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. Improving WC Market Drives NCCI Recommendations for Rate Cuts in 15 States... Read More

GAO Blasts SSA for Inability to Detect Concurrent FECA Payments . Private Investigators Say Drones Useful in Uncovering Workers Comp Fraud . Federal Judge to Rule in Coming Weeks on Uber Class Action Certification . Opioid Use Linked to Poor... Read More

Karen C. Yotis, Esq., a Feature Resident Columnist for the LexisNexis Workers’ Compensation eNewsletter , provides insights into workplace issues and the nuts and bolts of the workers’ comp world. THE VIEW FROM THE TOP When it comes... Read More

Sign up here for our free workers' compensation enewsletters (National or California Edition) to receive weekly news items. Be sure to select the enewsletter of your choice. NASI: Job, Earnings Growth Bumps Up Workers Comp Benefits and Costs .... Read More