Court Orders Penalty for Employer’s Unreasonable Denial of Claim

Personal Injury,Workers' Compensation - March 28, 2024 by Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates

To read the court’s decision, click here.
The story below originally appeared in the December 22, 2015 issue of WorkCompCentral. It was authored by Sherri Okamoto, a Legal Editor for WorkCompCentral.

Court Orders Penalty for Employer’s Unreasonable Denial of Claim

The court explained that the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act gives workers 45 days to report an injury – and it chastised the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission for implicitly saying otherwise when the commission declined to sanction Rausch Construction for its treatment of Tommy Oliver…
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