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Medicare Reined in by a True "Haro"
June 8th, 2011
A huge win for injured individuals, as well as their lawyers, is a rather complex and mind-numbing decision that came down recently in the case of Haro v. Sebelius, No. CV 09-134, TUC DUB, United States District Court D. Arizona, May 5, 2011. To explain this decision in a fairly simple way, this mea…
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Free CLE-Great Meeting on Twitter, Blogging, and Social Networking for Lawyers
June 3rd, 2011
The Chicago Bar Association Solo and Small Practitioner Committee, of which I am co-chair, is proud to hold it’s last meeting of this fiscal year on Tuesday June 7th at 12:15 p.m. at the Chicago Bar Association at 321 South Plymouth Court. The topic is How to Implement Twitter, Blogging, and S…
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The End of The World As We Know It???
June 1st, 2011
Workers’ compensation reform (or whatever you want to call it) has arrived in Illinois. This was a huge reversal of the vote in the Illinois House just a few days ago when the reform attempt only garnered 55 votes, with 60 votes required. This time, with Speaker Madigan arm twisting and with G…
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Workers' Comp Over?
May 31st, 2011
A Senate Panel has voted along party lines to abolish the Worker’s Compensation Act. After the surprising failure of the Senate to pass the reform bill already passed by the Illinois House over the weekend, the competing effort to abolish the entire workers’ compensation system in Illino…
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Workers' Comp Reform Agreement--Death By a Thousand Knives?
May 27th, 2011
Will this be a tough pill to swallow or death by a thousand knives? It appears that a compromise bill and amendment will affect significantly worker rights. Essentially, this bill, which is expected to be voted on and approved shortly (although nothing is ever certain in Sprinfield), would reduce an…
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Workers' Comp System to Be Abolished????
May 27th, 2011
This breaking news–Illinois House passed a bill to do away with the entire workers’ compensation system. It still would have to pass the Senate and be signed into law. The article in the Bloomington Normal Daily also mentions negotiations are ongoing. So, as of this moment, the choice is…
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Workers' Comp Gamesmanship Continues
May 26th, 2011
Followers of this page already know the on/off nature of workers’ compensation “reform” attempts in Illinois over the past year or so. There is clearly nothing so frightening to the general public than the truth, which, in this case, seems to involve threats of taking away everythi…
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Time is Running Out For Workers' Comp Reform (Whew!)
May 15th, 2011
An Article in the Chicago Tribune over the weekend highlighted just some of the many pitfalls to the “reform” process this blog has followed over the past several months. In short, legislators are trying to prove to their business backers that they are doing “something” to he…
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Happy Anniversary To Me!
May 10th, 2011
I just wanted to write a short and somewhat self-involved blog entry today to celebrate the fact that today marks the twenty-first year that I’ve been a lawyer. In those twenty-one years I have been honored to represent people injured in many different ways. Some were hurt while working, other…
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Quinn Backs Workers' Comp Reform
May 5th, 2011
Governor Quinn, a Democrat in name, appears to be the latest allegedly Democratic state official to publicly court workers’ comp reform that would be injurious to workers. A story widely reported in the State Journal-Register of Springfield, indicates that Quinn seemed to be in favor of a prov…
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