People who suffer work-related injuries that fall under the Illinois Workers Compensation Act and cannot work or face certain work restrictions can be entitled to temporary disability benefits.

WLS-TV recently reported that a 25-year-old man was walking around a strip mall on Aurora’s West Side when he fell about 15 feet into a hole that was dug for utility work and got stuck. It took 20 different rescue agencies two hours to rescue him.

While National Safety Council (NSC) statistics indicate that November is actually a time of year in which fatalities on the road actually start to decrease after the five consecutive highest months, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) actually shows that the 9 percent of motor vehicle crash deaths in November is almost on par with the 10 percent of deaths in June, July, August, September, and October. The NSC also estimates that more than 500 people will die during the Thanksgiving break. If you or a loved one were hurt in an automobile …

Social media has become an everyday aspect of most people’s lives, so it can be difficult not to share what is going on in your life with your friends and family. That said, people who have active workers' compensation cases will want to avoid posting anything about their activities on social media because there can be enormous drawbacks to posting certain kinds of information on these websites.