Inman Fitzgibbons Murdock & Kosoff

04/03/2023

Inman Fitzgibbons, Ltd. and Okgc Law, LLC, are excited to announce our merger. We are now IFMK Law, Ltd. with expanded practices in Trial Defense Litigation, FOIA and OMA Legal Services, Commercial Litigation and Business Legal Services, and Legal Counseling and Education. Both firms currently represent and defend Illinois counties, townships, municipalities, school districts, fire departments, public officials and employees, and private sector clients. Combined, we have greater capacity to be a resource for Illinois civil liability and workers’ compensation defense, business and commercial legal matters, and employment legal services in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin

02/25/2022

In order to streamline our updates, educational posts, and announcements, Inman and Fitzgibbons will be publishing our new posts directly onto the firm’s website, which can be found here.If you were previously subscribed to our blog then you should receive email updates for all new posts on the firm’s website. Any new subscribers are welcome to sign up for notifications along the right side of the firm’s website!

In order to streamline our updates, educational posts, and announcements, Inman and Fitzgibbons will be publishing our new posts directly onto the firm’s website, which can be found here.If you wer…

07/01/2021

The IWCC has announced the appointment of three new Arbitrators: Roma Parikh Dalal Roma Parikh Dalal will serve as an Arbitrator on the Workers’ Compensation Commission.* Dalal has most recently served as a Partner at Wiedner & McAuliffe, LTD where she has provided professional legal assistance, advice and counsel on workers’ compensation related matters. Before being named Partner she served Wiedner & McAuliffe as an Associate Attorney for nearly ten years....

The IWCC has announced the appointment of three new Arbitrators: Roma Parikh Dalal Roma Parikh Dalal will serve as an Arbitrator on the Workers’ Compensation Commission.* Dalal has most recently se…

06/29/2021

As Illinois employers and insurers are all too aware, during the January Session, the IL General Assembly approved HB 4276 and the Governor signed PA 101-653 into law which extended the COVID rebuttable presumption provision under the Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act to June 30, 2021. During the Spring Session, however, the legislature declined to allow the presumption to extend beyond tomorrow’s sunset....

As Illinois employers and insurers are all too aware, during the January Session, the IL General Assembly approved HB 4276 and the Governor signed PA 101-653 into law which extended the COVID rebut…

06/29/2021

As always, we continue to monitor interesting cases or other cases that are important to our practice and clients that are working their way through the Illinois courts. An appellate court case dealing with the exclusive remedy provision was recently appealed to the Illinois Supreme Court. In Munoz v. Bulley LLC, the defendant entered into an agreement to be a construction manager of a project....

As always, we continue to monitor interesting cases or other cases that are important to our practice and clients that are working their way through the Illinois courts. An appellate court case dea…

04/23/2021

I&F attorney Michael Bantz secured his third favorable decision in the last year before the Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission (IWCC), in a case where the IWCC reversed the Arbitrator on the issues of whether the petitioner’s recommended cervical surgery and bariatric weight loss surgery were related to his accident. The IWCC adopted the respondent’s arguments on these two issues and found that neither the petitioner’s cervical condition nor his alleged need for a weight loss surgery were related to his accident. ...

I&F attorney Michael Bantz secured his third favorable decision in the last year before the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission (IWCC), in a case where the IWCC reversed the Arbitra…

04/19/2021

The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) went into effect in 2008. The Act is an effort to safeguard/regulate how private entities collect, use, and share biometric information and biometric identifiers. BIPA has been used to file class action lawsuits or attempted class action lawsuits against Facebook, Six Flags Amusement Park, ADP, Ritz Carlton, Panera, and Medieval Times to name a few....

The Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) went into effect in 2008. The Act is an effort to safeguard/regulate how private entities collect, use, and share biometric information and bio…

04/16/2021

We have recently received several questions from our clients regarding the requirements for payment of statutory loss for finger amputations under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act. Section 8(e)(8) of the Act provides that the loss of the first or distal phalanx of a finger by amputation shall be considered the loss of 50% of that digit. Loss of more than one phalanx is considered loss of 100% of the digit....

We have recently received several questions from our clients regarding the requirements for payment of statutory loss for finger amputations under the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Act. Section 8(…

01/13/2021

As reported by our friends at the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, early this morning the General Assembly approved HB 4276 the extension of the COVID rebuttable presumption provision under the Workers’ Occupational Diseases Act through June 30, 2021. The measure also amends the Public Employee Disability Act providing that upon the occurrence of circumstances, directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19, occurring on or after March 9, 2020 and on or before June 30, 2021 which would hinder the physical recovery from an injury of an eligible employee within a one-year period, the eligible employee shall be entitled to an extension of no longer than 60 days by which he or she shall continue to be paid by the employing public entity on the same basis as he or she was paid before the injury....

As reported by our friends at the Illinois Chamber of Commerce, early this morning the General Assembly approved HB 4276 the extension of the COVID rebuttable presumption provision under the Worker…

01/07/2021

The Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission has reported that Commissioner Doug McCarthy has retired effective December 31, 2020, after a distinguished legal career. After many years in private practice, he first served as an Arbitrator, and was appointed as a Labor Commissioner by Governor JB Pritzker in 2019. Commissioner McCarthy practiced law in Decatur from 1979 until 2012, with the firm of McCarthy, Rowden and Baker....

The Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission has reported that Commissioner Doug McCarthy has retired effective December 31, 2020, after a distinguished legal career. After many years in pri…

12/23/2020

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