The following op-ed by ITLA President John P. Scanlon was published in the Alton Telegraph Wednesday, February 14, 2018. The op-ed was also published in the Moline Dispatch on February 20, 2018 titled “Insurers drive up worker comp costs.” The National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI), a non-profit, non-partisan organization made up of the…
LEARN MOREThe following op-ed by ITLA President John P. Scanlon was published in the Rockford Register Star on Saturday, February 10, 2018. In 2011, at the urging of the state’s leading business organizations, bipartisan majorities of Illinois lawmakers approved changes to Illinois workers’ compensation laws in an effort to reduce costs for Illinois employers. The…
LEARN MOREThe following op-ed by ITLA President John P. Scanlon was published in the Chicago Sun-Times on February 6, 2018. It also published in the Decatur Herald & Review on February 8, 2018 titled “SCANLON: How workers’ comp laws are being re-engineered.” In the early part of the last century, the only legal remedy for…
LEARN MOREThe following letter to the editor by ITLA President John P. Scanlon was published in the Moline Dispatch on Wednesday, January 10, 2018 and titled “Trial lawyers reject hellhole claim.” It was published in the State Journal-Register on Friday, January 12, 2018 and titled “Illinois’ civil justice system works.” According to the Annual Report…
LEARN MOREThe following letter to the editor by ITLA President John P. Scanlon was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Thursday, December 21, 2017. The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) has again recycled its annual “report” to stoke prejudice and fear of our state’s legal system. ATRA, and its Illinois mouthpiece Illinois Lawsuit Abuse…
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