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When An Insurance Company Needs More Information

August 3, 2021

We are Chicago-based workers’ compensation attorneys who handle cases all over Illinois with our statewide network of attorneys. If you would like a free consultation with an honest, experienced attorney please contact us at 312-346-5578. We promise to treat you in the same manner we would a family member or friend. Workers’ compensation insurance companies make money by reducing the amount they have to pay out in a case. That can mean not offering a…

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When The Insurance Adjuster Is Driving You Crazy

By Mike Helfand

July 31, 2021

I get along with most of the insurance adjusters I’ve talked to over the years. The lawyers I work with on cases throughout Illinois are the same way. If you act like an asshole to the insurance company they will just punish your clients. So we are nice in most situations and let the legal process be where we do our fighting. The lawyers I work with won’t get pushed around and will certainly push…

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Temp Agency Won’t Let Worker Fill Out An Accident Report

By Mike Helfand

July 28, 2021

Most of the shady moves in Illinois workers’ compensation cases happen by insurance companies. They’ll do things like deny your medical benefits without a reason, send a nurse case manager to your doctor’s appointments, or lie and say the case is “under investigation” with the hopes that you will just go away. Some employers can act in a bad way too. The worst, in my opinion, are staffing agencies. They seem to not view their…

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Who Determines What Medical Care Should Be Approved?

By Mike Helfand

July 25, 2021

Under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act, if you are injured on the job you are entitled to reasonable and necessary medical care that is related to your work injury. In other words, getting physical therapy for a work related back injury would be reasonable and necessary. They’d have to pay for 100% of it at any medical provider you wanted to see (with very few exceptions). But if your appendix needed to come out, they…

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Flight Attendants And Work Injuries

By Mike Helfand

July 22, 2021

With Covid finally under control, the airline industry is booming. The last year has had people on edge and also emboldened some people to behave like assholes. As a result, passenger problems on airlines are increasing. How much? From April 8 to May 15, Southwest reported 477 passenger incidents. That’s a crazy high number. I fly Southwest about six times a year, and I honestly can recall only one time where a passenger was unruly. …

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Illinois Work Injuries And Self Treatment

By Mike Helfand

July 19, 2021

If you are hurt while working on the job, the first and best piece of advice I give is to go to a doctor. It doesn’t require a law degree to tell people that. It’s mostly common sense. If you are hurting, you get help. From a legal standpoint, you can’t prove you are really hurt if you don’t go to a doctor. And the longer you wait to go, the harder it is to…

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When Your Employer Wants You To Go Back To Work – IL Work Comp

By Mike Helfand

July 16, 2021

I don’t usually get questions I haven’t heard before, but it happens. A reader of my blog contacted me with a question I haven’t been asked in my 24 years of being a workers’ compensation lawyer. He wanted to know: If my employer wants me to go back to work after a work related injury, who is the first person informed? Me, the doctor, someone else??? Do I need a lawyer if I’m not able…

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Do I Get A Settlement? Illinois Workers Compensation Payments

By Mike Helfand

July 13, 2021

The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act provides for a bunch of benefits that have to be provided and one benefit that can be provided but doesn’t have to. In simpler terms, if you are hurt at work in Illinois, your employer has to be for your time off of work and 100% of your medical care. No co-pays, nothing out of pocket. The only way around that is if they have a defense to your case…

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Live In Illinois, Work In Another State: How To Bring An IL Case

By Mike Helfand

July 10, 2021

Illinois workers’ compensation laws are some of the most worker friendly ones in the country and still fair to employers and insurance companies who make billions off of these cases every year. When it comes to border states like Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and especially Indiana, you’d be way better off having your case in Illinois if you can. When the case is in Illinois that means it falls under Illinois law. That will entitle you…

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How Long Until Your Work Comp Benefits Should Start?

By Mike Helfand

July 7, 2021

When you are hurt on the job in Illinois, you are entitled to have all of your medical care to be paid and 2/3 of your pay, tax-free, for your time off of work. These are really important benefits because if you are injured, immediate medical care can be the difference between a short-term and long-term problem. And of course, if you can’t work and get a paycheck, you need money to live off of.…

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Blog Authors

When An Insurance Company Needs More Information

When The Insurance Adjuster Is Driving You Crazy

Temp Agency Won’t Let Worker Fill Out An Accident Report

Who Determines What Medical Care Should Be Approved?

Flight Attendants And Work Injuries

Illinois Work Injuries And Self Treatment

When Your Employer Wants You To Go Back To Work – IL Work Comp

Do I Get A Settlement? Illinois Workers Compensation Payments

Live In Illinois, Work In Another State: How To Bring An IL Case

How Long Until Your Work Comp Benefits Should Start?

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