Tips for understanding medical tests/conditions

This may be obvious for some of you folks… you know, along the lines of “check Google or Wikipedia.” But even for someone young and technologically savvy (not to mention handsome ) as myself, I’m still kind of surprised about this:
Curious what a medical condition or test looks like? Check Youtube.
Yesterday I was trying [...]

Wow! New Illinois Workers Comp Case Helps the Injured, But Probably Wrong

One of the main fears of Illinois Workers Compensation attorneys (heck, any workers comp attorney, probably) is that, after settlements are drafted and approved and checks are sent out, it pops up.
What pops up? That medical bill that had been hiding in the client’s desk drawer, or lurking behind the bushes, or hanging from the [...]

On my other blog…

Click here to read the first part of my entry explaining the basics of how Illinois Workers Compensation works.

Iowa’s work-related deaths mostly farmers, truckers

From an article in the Quad City paper today, 57% of Iowa’s work-related deaths were either farmers or truck drivers. This makes sense – those gear-jamming truck drivers put in a lot of miles, and often put in an insane amount of hours at a time. Trucking accidents are bound to happen.
Farmers use big machines, and [...]

Important new Illinois Workers Comp case

New case – Gallagher v. Lenart: The Illinois Supreme Court made it clear that an employer’s waiver of a workers compensation lien must be clearly stated in the workers comp settlement contracts (the pink ones). The law used to be that an employer had to explicitly reserve its right to a lien under Section 5(b) [...]

Virginia Tech murders and Workers Compensation

I’ve been following the Virgina Tech tragedy closely. Being an Iowa alum, I’m reminded of the Gang Lu murders at the University of Iowa in 1991.
The Gang Lu murders involved a graduate student who, upset at being passed over for an award, took revenge on faculty and students who he felt had done him wrong, [...]