Posts by Williams Swee

Last week we discussed back injuries. Another area of large settlements in Illinois Workers’ Compensation cases involve shoulder injuries. One reason is that the law values the shoulder as part of the person as a whole worth a total of 500 weeks. Once again this is the largest amount of total weeks for body parts.…

Previously we discussed knee injuries. Another area of large settlements in Illinois Workers’ Compensation cases involve hand injuries. One reason is that the law values the hand as worth a total of 205 weeks. The hand is vital to being able to work, of course, because it impacts activities such as handling, gripping, feeling, fingering and lifting. Many…

Last week we discussed shoulder injuries. Another area of large settlements in Illinois Workers’ Compensation cases involve knee injuries. One reason is that the law values the knee as part of the person as a whole worth a total of 215 weeks. Once again this is the largest amount of total weeks for body parts.…