The blogging world of workers’ compensation attorneys has been all abuzz over the last few weeks with the ruling of Smothers v. Will County Forest Preserve District. The conversation revolves around the decision that answers the question: “When is a shoulder not part of an arm?” Apparently, according to the jurists, it never has been. [...]

Who says the government isn’t hard at work trying to create jobs and get the economy on track? A simple Google search this week found there were over 475 positions open for career RNs to switch to a career performing Utilization Reviews now mandated under the revisions to the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act. It appears [...]

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Little over a month ago,  Illinois Governor Patrick Quinn signed a new bill into law initiating the secure exchange of electronic heath records in Illinois.  The Health Information Exchange and Technology Act creates  the necessary framework through which health care providers and insurance companies can electronically share health records.  While patients may fear that making [...]

A recent hot topic among consumer safety advocates has been the use of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in plastic compounds that are clear, hard, and not easily breakable. BPA is used in helmets, CDs, sunglasses, and cell phones as well as in food and beverage products such as water bottles, baby bottles, can coatings, [...]

Nearly two-thirds of Americans are obese or overweight, and while it is commonly understood how this unhealthy epidemic is dangerous for our nation’s health, there are lesser-known consequences that affect safety in the workplace.
A study in 2007 reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology has shown that more overweight and obese people are involved in [...]

Workers’ compensation is an inevitable issue for some companies. When your employees do certain motions day after day, year after year, it’s going to wear down their bodies. But maybe not; maybe it’s just a matter of proper maintenance. After all, we take our cars in regularly, with the cars that acquire more miles quickly [...]

With cell phones pressed to our ears, clipped to our belts, and putting email at our fingertips, it’s becoming hard to imagine life without them. And with our busy schedules, we don’t often take the time to consider whether that’s necessarily a good thing. Cell phone usage has exploded in the last decade, and while [...]

With skyrocketing gas prices and crowded mass transit options, many of us are left wondering why we’re still stuck in a bumper-to-bumper commute. And while most of us resist being ‘that guy’–you know, the one who goes flying up the shoulder while you’re waiting (im)patiently in your lane–we still wish there was a better way [...]

With our incredible research capabilities, the availability of prescription drugs designed for your ailment can be daunting. And most of us want to know exactly what it is we’re putting into our bodies by taking that pill. An FDA approval acts as a safety blanket, something to quiet those doubts about filling a prescription.
For those [...]

These days you can find most anything online. It is becoming commonplace to wear a shirt and slacks purchased online from Brooks Brothers, while preparing your meal with food from Peapod, for your newfound flame introduced by Match.com. The newest online frontier? Digital drugs.
Innocently arriving via FedEx, such drugs caused the sudden death of one [...]