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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Illinois lawyers, all lawyers for that matter, get such a bad rap. I’m sure you’ve heard all the lawyer jokes, many of which I find myself laughing at, albeit self-consciously. Lawyers in Illinois have something they can be proud of image-wise. A recent article featured in Illinois Lawye…