What Makes Workers’ Compensation Cases in Illinois Unique

Illinois, outside of like say Indiana, workers’ compensation claims are handled completely different. In Indiana, there’s like a statutory claim level that you have this type of injury, it’s worth x amount of dollars. In workers’ compensation Illinois, the injury recovery is based on the average weekly wage of the person who was injured and the severity of the injury and the level of disability they’re going to have to face for the rest of their life. And what we do is we build that case—we get the medical records. We look at the operative report to see exactly what was done. By looking at the report, seeing exactly what the doctor did make the recovery double.