Illinois bill HB 4177 boosts workers’ comp burial aid to $10,000, up from $8,000, to match nearby states and cover higher ...

LAKELAND, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Summit, a leading regional provider of workers’ compensation insurance services, is pleased to announce the expansion of its coverage into Illinois. Summit-managed ...

Emerging pressures in states like California, New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois are indicating the start of a new cycle ...

The Illinois Legislature has passed a comprehensive reform package of the state’s workers’ compensation system, unwelcomed news to ambulatory surgery centers which will take a financial hit with the ...

Illinois, Montana and North Carolina have proposed or passed legislation that would affect or completely dismantle their respective workers’ compensation systems, according to various reports. The ...

"It’s kinda just semantics," said one prominent Democratic legislator who has also worked in the agreed bill process.

Workers’ compensation insurance pays lost wages and medical benefits to employees who develop work-related injuries or illnesses, regardless of fault.

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois — Efforts to form a union by staff in House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch’s office could provide an early and unexpected test of the new Workers’ Rights Amendment to the Illinois ...

SPRINGFIELD — A proposal to abolish Illinois’ workers’ compensation system raised red flags for Republicans Thursday in the General Assembly. Although lawmakers did not formally vote on the idea, they ...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Tribune and other news outlets have just reported the case of a man, José Gómez, who required a lung transplant after severe lung damage caused ...

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — The director of the Illinois Department of Correction has told lawmakers that guards at the Menard prison may have committed millions of dollars in fraud stemming from workers ...