Most employers are required to carry workers’ compensation to cover employees who are injured while on the job. Details of the workers’ compensation claims process are different from place to place, but injured employees generally must notify their...
Workers’ Compensation is a system that protects the employee by tasking an employer to pay or provide insurance to pay lost wages and medical expenses of an employee/staff who got injured on the job. Specific laws vary with each jurisdiction but there are consistent...
The Illinois Workers Compensation Act determined that the value of a work related elbow injury is based on a percentage of loss use of the arm. The Act states that a loss use of an entire arm is worth 253 weeks. When a worker injures his elbow, those cases are...
The Illinois Workers Compensation Act has determined that the value of a rotator cuff tear is based on a man as a whole pursuant to recent case law, as opposed to loss of use of an arm. A man as a whole case has a total value is 500 weeks, whereas loss of use of an...
