IL Employers could save 15-35% on workers’ compensation costs…here’s how
34 states in these United States have implemented an “injury and illness prevention program.” Guess who hasn’t? ILLINOIS. Why? Ask your legislators, because there is absolutely no good reason not to have an injury and illness prevention program other than sheer laziness of our legislators or fear that businesses may cry about it. Illness and [...]
Will Indiana Labor “Occupy the Super Bowl”?
If that’s what it takes to derail the anti-union “right to work” bill being pushed by Gov. Mitch Daniels and Republican legislators … thousands of Indiana workers are ready to demonstrate in Indianapolis on February 5: Jeff Harris, spokesman for the Indiana AFL-CIO, said the union organization’s “focus is on defeating ‘right to work’ on [...]
Uninsured Employer/Dead Employee: The Tragic (perhaps criminal) End of Quelino Ojeda Jimenez
Quelino Ojeda Jimenez died in a rural Mexican hospital on New Year’s Day. He was twenty-one years old. In August 2010, Quelino fell from a roof while working for a nonunion contractor near Midway Airport, and was rendered a quadriplegic. You may remember the controversy a year ago when Advocate Christ Hospital, unwilling to absorb the costs of [...]
Next door in Indiana: A threat to union rights … and a small victory for free speech
The Indianapolis Star reports that Gov. Mitch Daniels has withdrawn controversial new rules limiting the number of Hoosiers allowed to enter their own state capital building to speak their minds. The new rules were announced, not-so-coincidentally, as Republican lawmakers introduced a proposed “right-to-work” law. The bill, which was shelved last year in the face of [...]
IL Dept of Insurance Releases Approved Preferred Provider List for Workers Compensation
The IL Dept of Insurance recently released the 3 companies that have been approved under the new PPP provisions of the WC Act. Remember, if your employer has a “PPP”, they must notify you in writing as soon as you report your injury. They must also provide a list of doctors and other providers who are approved [...]