About
Chris is a savvy litigator and negotiator who focuses on employees’ repayment law and social security incapacity regulation. Over the path of his profession, he has represented heaps of customers from all walks of lifestyles: from instructors to truck drivers and from manufacturing unit people to nurses, and union contributors from the UAW, IEA, INA, SEIU, Teamsters, and diverse building trades. He is a tireless fighter on behalf of his customers and will do something it takes to make sure his clients acquire their advantages. He has obtained awards for incapacity blessings and penalties in opposition to employers for now not paying disability blessings in cases before each the Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission and the Illinois Appellate Court.
He represents many customers who paintings in the car enterprise, and has taken on such groups as Ford Motor Company, Mitsubishi Motors, Tower Automotive, and ZF Lemforder. An professional on instances related to harm due to repetitive trauma, he regularly pursues cases for carpal tunnel syndrome, rotator cuff tears, and cubital tunnel syndrome on the elbow from repetitive movement.
Chris also has efficiently demonstrated cases of overall incapacity from conditions together with CRPS or RSD, failed again syndrome, spinal fusion and the amputation of a limb.
Over the years, Chris has had many good sized decisions, consisting of Judith Randle v. Illinois Industrial Commission, 05 IWCC 0530, which affirmed that an injured worker does now not should show that her carpal tunnel syndrome changed into now not due to different clinical conditions; Johnsy Anderson v. Dr. Kim Livtezy sixteen IWCC 2090, which affirmed that a disabled worker does now not ought to carry out an alternative activity wherein the employee is licensed as definitely disabled, and Pamela Goff v. State of Illinois, 10 IWCC 12110I, which affirmed that tripping over a rug in the place of job qualifies as a work-associated harm.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Workers Compensation
- Social Security Disability
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
Costs
- Free Consultation
Certificates
Languages
- English
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Lawyer
Katz, Friedman, Eisenstein, Johnson, Bareck & Bertuca
2002
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