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Recent News About Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission

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  Appeals panel says no legal fees for firm that challenged Pritzker's attempt to rewrite workers' comp COVID rules

  By Scott Holland | Thursday, Jul 15, 2021 @ 10:14am

  The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission pulled back the governor's requested COVID rules before a judge could invalidate them, the Fourth District Appellate Court ruled.

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  Lawsuit: State commission 'usurped' authority by changing COVID workers' comp rules

  By Jonathan Bilyk | Wednesday, Apr 22, 2020 @ 1:09pm

  The lawsuit from two prominent Illinois business groups assert the state workers' comp commission changed rules without authority, to make employers 'carry the healthcare load'

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