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Nursing home providers who do not properly supervise residents place elderly patients at risk of serious injury, sexual assault, and fatal overdoses. State and federal laws establish the minimum number of hours an operator must provide nursing home residents with services.

Proving a disease claim under the Illinois Occupational Diseases Act is often difficult because it may be hard to show that the disease was caused by the person’s working environment. Identifying the disease and tracing it back to the person’s job may require a thorough analysis of his or her medical records.

Nursing homes exist in a still-developing area of law that sometimes inconsistently applies liability rules. Nursing homes, if they are healthcare providers, are required to carry two insurance policies: professional and general. Each policy will have different requirements, coverage, and liability rules which can profoundly affect the way an injured resident’s claim is treated.

While research has shown that one out of every ten elderly people suffers from abuse, only one case out of every 7,700 emergency room visits by elderly people results in a diagnosis of elder abuse, pointing to the fact that many cases are not being diagnosed and reported.

Workers’ compensation claims can be denied for any number of reasons. The following are among the most common reasons that Chicago workers’ compensation attorneys see when a claim is denied:

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, transportation accidents related to work activities are the leading cause of worker deaths while on the job in Illinois. In 2014, the BLS reports that 163 people died in Illinois while they were on the job. Out of that number, 58 were killed in transportation accidents, representing […]

Some of the most vulnerable members of society are being sexually abused in nursing homes throughout the country, and Illinois is not immune to these immoral crimes. Between 2007 and 2010 alone, an alarming 86 incidents involving some type of sexual abuse in nursing homes were reported in Chicago.

Nursing home falls are preventable accidents, and nursing homes should take a number of steps in order to reduce the likelihood of falls. In Sept. 1997, the Illinois Council on Long Term Care sent its members a fall protocol, giving them notice of the steps that they could take to prevent falls.

Workers in the U.S. are at risk of contracting Zika virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). On November 16, 2016, the CDC reported that there were 4,255 known cases of Zika virus in the United States. About 4,115 of those cases were travel-associated, 139 were mosquito-borne, and one was acquired in a laboratory.

Business groups in Illinois are, again, calling for additional reforms to reduce workers’ compensation insurance costs. Unfortunately, these critiques are the same issues that business groups take every time they demand reforms.