George Parker

For an injury to be covered under the Illinois Workers Compensation Act, your Illinois workers compensation attorney must determine if an accident or accidental injury arose out of and in the course of the worker's employment.

Sounds like an easy question. You work for someone else, so you must be considered an employee. But it's not always that easy.

In our earlier article called "How to properly protect yourself ", we explained how common it is for a worker to contact Illinois workers compensation lawyers and explain to them that..

Often, injured workers contact an attorney and tell them that they were hurt on the job, but their employer is already taking care of the workers compensation case.