How to check if your Employer has Illinois Workers Compensation Insurance

Every employer in the State of Illinois is required by law to purchase worker’s compensation insurance coverage for their employees.  The State of Illinois has formulated an insurance compliance division, they have hired investigators to ensure that every employer has worker’s compensation insurance.  Failure of an employer to carry worker’s compensation insurance subjects that employer to stiff financial penalties. 

You can easily check to determine if your employer has worker’s compensation insurance by visiting the Illinois Worker’s Compensation website at  www.state.il.us/agency/iic/ and then click on the right-hand side of the webpage “Employer Insurance Coverage Search”.  From there you can follow the prompts to determine if your employer does, in fact, carry worker’s compensation insurance and learn the identity of the insurance carrier.