Workers' Compensation

Are you NEW (or newer?) to handling Workers’ Compensation claims for either Petitioners or Respondents? The IICLE® Work Comp Boot Camp features experienced work comp practitioners on both sides sharing their knowledge and best tips to make you a better lawyer. You will learn about the unique rules of the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission and how to handle a work comp case from beginning to end.

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The Workers' Compensation Institute 2024 offers an enlightening and practical exploration of handling high stakes claims and navigating the intersection of technology and legal practice. Enhance your skills, broaden your perspectives, and position yourself at the forefront of workers' compensation law in an evolving legal landscape. Topics include updates from the Chairman of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission; caselaw updates; strategies to prove and disprove TTD, TPD, and maintenance; vocational rehabilitation goals in light of National Tea v. Industrial Com.; analysis of medical bills; handling death cases; MSA update and review; navigating various work comp-related transitions; and the impact of AI on workers' compensation practice, IWCC proceedings, and the Appellate Courts.

Learn from the arbitrators themselves what they think practitioners should know about pre-trials, deposing a witness and proposed Commission decisions. Originally presented as part of the Work Comp Boot Camp 2023.

Gain an understanding of work comp benefits available to clients. Learn about client relations, interim benefits, vocational rehabilitation, permanency, and strategies to prove it. Originally presented as part of the Work Comp Boot Camp 2023.

When is the appropriate time to consider settlement? What are the advantages and disadvantages of settlement and what factors should be considered? How can you offer your client the most protection relative to the settlement contract language? This session will discuss negotiations, settlement contracts, what to include and address in settlement, MSA, liens, and how to explain the process to your client and discuss dispute settlements. Originally presented as part of the Work Comp Boot Camp 2023.

What do we have to prove, how do we prove it, what are we asking for, and how do we prepare witnesses for trial? Learn best practices for setting the case for trial, pre-trials, and at trial. The discussion will include evidentiary issues, what evidence are you presenting and why such as: surveillance, social media, witnesses, and depositions. Originally presented as part of the Work Comp Boot Camp 2023.

Get a Petitioner’s and Respondent’s perspective on how to evaluate whether a case is compensable. Review the case law and the basics of all workers’ compensation cases, including jurisdiction, statute of limitations, accident, medical causation, employer/employee relationship, average weekly wage, the benefits a person would be entitled to and more. Originally presented as part of the Work Comp Boot Camp 2023.

Arnold G. Rubin presents recent Illinois Appellate Court cases that significantly impact Workers' Compensation practice, with important insights for both Petitioner's and Respondent's attorneys. Originally presented as part of the Workers’ Compensation Institute 2024: How to Handle High Stakes Claims Plus How to Avoid Having Robots Write Your Brief.

This course discusses Temporary Total Disability (TTD), Temporary Partial Disability (TPD), and maintenance benefits. It also addresses strategies used to prove or disprove the need for these benefits. Originally presented as part of the Workers’ Compensation Institute 2024: How to Handle High Stakes Claims Plus How to Avoid Having Robots Write Your Brief.

This course discusses whether the goals of vocational rehabilitation are being met. It also looks back on the National Tea decision, that set the guidelines for later work in this area. Originally presented as part of the Workers’ Compensation Institute 2024: How to Handle High Stakes Claims Plus How to Avoid Having Robots Write Your Brief.

This course examines the advantages and disadvantages of the remedies under 8(d)1 and 8(d)2 of the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act. It does this by analyzing fact situations that could be pursued under these theories of recovery; what evidence is required to prove and defend these cases; and proving suitable employment with a job search. Originally presented as part of the Workers’ Compensation Institute 2024: How to Handle High Stakes Claims Plus How to Avoid Having Robots Write Your Brief.