Hurt at Work and your employer has no workers compensation insurance, what can you do?

If you have been injured at work, the Illinois Workers Compensation Act provides you benefits such as payment of all your related medical bills, two thirds of  your wages, as you  heal from your work injury and a permanent disability settlement when you fully recover from your injury. This is great if your employer has workers compensation insurance, but what happens if your employer does not have insurance?  Until recently your only option was to file a claim, try the case and try to collect against the employer.  Usually if the employer did not carry workers compensation insurance the likely hood of recovery was slim to none, furthermore it was hard if not impossible  find an attorney to take your case because of the amount of work involved and the chance of recovery was so small.

Recently, the Illinois legislature passed the Injured Workers’ Benefit Fund.  That fund will pay out in a one time benefit,  the total amount of all your benefits if ou can prove at trial your entire case and the fact that the employer was not insured.  The Illinois trial lawyers association had there annual workers compensation seminar and provided the members with the formula and format on how to bring a claim against the fund so you can recover actual dollars instead of just a piece of paper stating that you obtained a judgement.

Attorney David N. Rechenberg is a member of the Illinois Trial lawyers Association and he was at the seminar and he can help you recover money if our have been hurt at work and your employer did not have workers compensation insurance coverage. He can file a claim against the Illinois Injured Workers’Benefit Fund for you !